The first three months of 2024 saw a continued drop in levels of violent crime and murder across the country, according to data released by the FBI on Monday -- a trend that Attorney General Merrick Garland called "historic."

Reported incidents of violent crime dropped 15% between January and March of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Data.

Murders dropped by more than 26% in the same time period, the data shows.

The FBI has not released details about the number of incidents for the categories of crime. It will do so when 80% participation levels are met, the agency said.

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[–] 72 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Don't let that stop the media from scaring people though.

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Millennials are ruining crime, and they can't blame this one on a lack of disposable income. Go stick up a liquor store, ya lazy bums.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Fox gonna spin this as criminals being too broke to crime or something

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yay! Also has me wondering about “white collar” crime.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Estimated $50b in wage theft against workers per year I'm thinking white collar isn't being included.

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  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How does that "zero out". A bunch of upper and middle managers embezzling millions somehow cancels the harm of not paying, usually the lowest paid employees, their fair earned wages?

    Explain the logic there?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    From your article-

    Hiscox’s researchers studied publicly available data on nearly 400 U.S. federal court cases in which employee fraud was alleged that either became publicly known or were active in the federal system during 2016. The cases involved public and private corporations, limited liability companies, municipal and government agencies, nonprofit organizations and Native American tribal businesses.

    Meaning that doesn't show anything being zeroed out, it means there were nearly 400 federal employee fraud cases.

    And then it says-

    Despite the alarming levels of embezzlement taking place, it isn’t top of mind for many small-business owners. When asked, “What is the most critical issue facing your business?” only 1 percent said the threat of crime or vandalism

    In other words, that's utter hogwash.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I wonder if we have any statistics for non-violent crime like theft, grocery stores keep going on about rising pretty theft and I have my doubts.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    police are doing historically less investigating of crimes ever since BLM told them to quit their jobs.

    or maybe:

    police are committing much less murder ever since they all started being required to wear body cameras

    e.g. https://www.govexec.com/management/2022/05/biden-orders-all-federal-law-enforcement-wear-body-cameras/367381/

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Party of the rule of law… wait…

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe not violent crime, but, Trump is doing his personal damnedest to boost the crime rate.

    Lock him up!

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Imagine how much crime would drop if we had basic housing and income for everyone!

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Turns out we already have some clear data, and don't need to speculate.

    What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money? https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/

    City-funded housing repairs in low-income neighborhoods associated with drop in crime https://phys.org/news/2021-07-city-funded-housing-low-income-neighborhoods-crime.pdf

    The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/upshot/the-unsung-role-that-ordinary-citizens-played-in-the-great-crime-decline.html

    VERIFY: Does affordable housing bring more crime? (note, the answer as usual is no.) https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/verify/verify-does-affordable-housing-bring-more-crime/93-560002876

    Places across the U.S. are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1233440910/cash-aid-guaranteed-basic-income-social-safety-net-poverty

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sweet I've seen a few of those! I was hoping someone had them on hand =)

    Thanks for sharing man!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Everyone is too busy complaining on the internet to do crimes

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    And Republicans will still act like crime is at an all time high because all they watch is Fox News and Newsmax.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, well. Ignoring the crime done by Republicans will do that.

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