Murders spiked nearly 30% in 2020 across the country, according to the FBI. Major cities across the country continue to face high murder rates and violent crime two years on.

So I don't think there's any single-factor explanation for why crime rose in 2020 and why it's now falling. But I think the COVID-19 context is a huge one to keep in mind. Taylor Wilson: ...

Trump would have us focus on this self-reported measure of crime rather than actual crime data. Interestingly, back in 2022 when Fox News and others on the right were obsessing over crime (at ...

GameChangers 2020: The Resurgence of the Central American Cocaine Highway. A rush of drug plane traffic from South America, coupled with traffickers smuggling large cocaine shipments after coronavirus ...

“Normal levels of participation in 2020, 2022 and 2023 help paint a story of US crime trends that doesn’t rely on the faulty 2021 data,” Asher wrote. “The 2021 estimates were deeply flawed ...

Crime rates have been steadily falling in America since the early 1990s but did see a significant increase, especially in murder, in 2020 during Trump's last year as president as the COVID-19 ...

In 2020, for example, the U.S. murder rate saw its largest single-year increase on record – and by 2022, it remained considerably higher than before the coronavirus pandemic. Preliminary data for 2023 ...

Similarly, in New York, which saw a big increase in murders between 2019 and 2020, there was a much smaller rise from 2020-2021. Data for 2022 is incomplete, but what there is shows the murder ...

You might call it a new golden age. America’s economy is strong, overdose deaths are falling and crime rates are down. For the second consecutive year murders in America have plummeted. The ...

The place crime obviously spiked since 2020? Trump’s imagination. New data from the FBI reinforces that violent crime fell under Biden, despite Trump’s insistence that crime is surging.