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The FBI’s 2023 Crime in the Nation Report is based on submissions of reported crime from 16,334 law enforcement agencies, representing the vast majority of the American population. All large police departments that cover regions with more than 1 million residents, including New York and Los Angeles, contributed to the report.
According to the report, violent crime dropped 3 percent between 2022 and 2023, with murder and nonnegligent homicide down 11.6 percent. Reported rape offenses dropped 9.4 percent. Property crime decreased 2.4 percent.
The drop in murders in 2023 was the largest year-over-year decline reported by the FBI in 20 years. In 2022, there were 6.5 murders for every 100,000 people. In 2023, there were 5.7 murders for every 100,000 people.
The FBI has not yet released data for the first half of this year. But figures for 69 U.S. cities compiled by the Major City Chiefs Association show a continuation of the sharp drop in killings seen in 2023, with homicides down 17 percent compared with the same six-month period from the prior year.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/202...teep-decline-or-another-bidenesque-wild-story
According to the CPRC, one factor contributing to the ostensible dip in violent crime is that almost 40% of local law enforcement agencies are no longer transmitting their information to the national Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) database. In “2021, 37% of police departments stopped reporting crime data to the FBI (including large departments for Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York),” and for other jurisdictions, like Baltimore and Nashville, crimes are being underreported or undercounted. This leaves a large gap; by 2021, the real crime data collected by the FBI represented only 63% of police departments overseeing just 65% of the population. When compared to pre-2021 data, the result is a questionable “decline” in crime.