New from me: Murder is down 12% in over 90 US cities with available data so far in '23. I wrote in @TheAtlantic about how it could be indicative of one of the largest national drops in murder ever recorded happening this year & ideas on possible drivers. https://t.co/lKTUTuIHXV
— Jeff Asher (@Crimealytics) June 5, 2023
The bad news is that that’s still well above any year in this century before George Floyd’s death. Homicides went up 30% in 2020, then another 5% in 2021. My January 4, 2023 article summarizing end-of-year articles in local newspapers roughly estimated a 5% decline in 2022, or back to 2020.
The media has really shut up over the least year or so about George Floyd and the Racial Reckoning in order to protect the Biden Administration and deflect blame from those responsible. But the good side of this is that at least they aren’t stoking as much violence as they did in 2020-21.
