While there were fewer homicides and other violent crimes reported last year, property crime figures jumped – including one type of theft in particular.
showed that U.S. homicides and other violent crimes fell last year, but property crimes – including motor vehicle thefts – jumped.Violent crime dropped 1.7%, and that included a 6.1% decrease in murder and non-negligent manslaughter, according to the FBI data. Violent crime had also decreased slightly in 2021, a big turnaround from 2020, when the murder rate in the U.S. jumped 29% during the pandemic that created huge social disruption and upended support systems.
While the rate of homicides dropped about 6% from 2021, the figure was still higher than it was before the pandemic. by the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice, which similarly indicated that homicides were declining in a cross-section of American cities. FILE - The broken window of a rental car is seen on September 12, 2023, in San Francisco, California. In April, the Highway Loss Data Institute identified the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat as the car in the model years 2020-2022 having the highest relative claim frequency for theft.
Nearly two-fifths of all policing agencies failed to participate in last year's report, including big cities like New York, Los Angeles and Miami. That followed a major overhaul in the reporting system.
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