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ATT: ROOSTER - What we know about the increase in U.S. murders in 2020
"Att: rooster - Is the 'Ferguson effect' real? Researcher has second thoughts
"Murders are spiking. Police should be part of the solution." "
2020 being the last year of the one term guy who used the White House to preach and condone violence should it really
surprise anyone violence increased? Violence there, it should be noted, that also included a bump in drug overdoses.
By John Gramlich October 27, 2021
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The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century, according to data published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The findings align with a separate tabulation of the nation’s murder rate published in September by the FBI.
The CDC tracks murders by analyzing information contained in death certificates. The FBI tallies murders by collecting information from thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. Despite their different methodologies, both sources point to a sharp rise in the U.S. murder rate during the pandemic year of 2020, even as the rate itself remained well below the level of earlier decades.
Below are some key takeaways from the two new sets of government data.
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5. It is not yet clear why murders rose dramatically in 2020. Experts have
pointed to a variety of potential causes .. https://www.vox.com/22344713/murder-violent-crime-spike-surge-2020-covid-19-coronavirus , including the economic and societal changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and changes in police-community relations after the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota last year. But the exact reasons remain unclear.
The FBI data, at least, shows that murder wasn’t the only form of violent crime to go up last year. The rate of aggravated assault rose nearly 12% between 2019 and 2020. And since aggravated assault is by far the most common type of violent crime tracked by the FBI, the overall violent crime rate in the U.S. also increased in 2020, by about 5%. Two other kinds of violent crime tracked by the FBI – rape and robbery – declined in 2020.
A line graph showing that the U.S. murder rate rose sharply in 2020, but remains below previous highs
6. Despite rising sharply in 2020, the U.S. murder rate remains below the levels of the early 1990s.
The 2020 homicide rate of 7.8 homicides per 100,000 people was 22% below the rate of 1991 (10 homicides per 100,000 people) and far below the rates recorded in much of the 1970s and 1980s, according to the CDC. As is the case for violent and property crime rates more broadly .. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/ , the U.S. murder rate has generally trended downward in recent decades, though 2020 was an obvious exception.
7. Americans remain far less likely to die from murder than from other causes, including from suicide and drug overdose. The U.S. murder rate in 2020 was 42% lower than the suicide rate (13.5 deaths per 100,000 people) and 71% below the mortality rate for drug overdose (27.1 deaths per 100,000 people, as of the third quarter of 2020), the CDC data shows. As was the case with murders, drug overdoses increased sharply in 2020.
That’s not to say that Americans aren’t concerned about violent crime. In a July 2021 Pew Research Center survey, 61% of U.S. adults said violent crime is a very big problem in the country today .. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/26/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-want-more-spending-on-police-in-their-area/ – up from 41% in June 2020 and the highest percentage measured since at least the fall of 2018. In the July poll, Americans were more likely to describe violent crime as a very big problem than to say the same thing about five other issues asked about in the survey: the federal budget deficit (50% said this was a very big problem), climate change (47%), racism (45%), economic inequality (44%) and illegal immigration (43%).
Since June 2020, Americans have also become more supportive of increasing local police funding in their communities .. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/26/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-want-more-spending-on-police-in-their-area/ . In a separate Center survey conducted in September, 47% of U.S. adults said they favored an increase in funding for police in their area, up from 31% last June. Support for reducing local police funding declined from 25% to 15%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/
See again - Biden budget proposal calls for increase in law enforcement spending
“The answer is not to defund the police,” President Joe Biden said in a visit to New York City last month.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=168637092
"Att: rooster - Is the 'Ferguson effect' real? Researcher has second thoughts
"Murders are spiking. Police should be part of the solution." "
2020 being the last year of the one term guy who used the White House to preach and condone violence should it really
surprise anyone violence increased? Violence there, it should be noted, that also included a bump in drug overdoses.
By John Gramlich October 27, 2021
All links
The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century, according to data published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The findings align with a separate tabulation of the nation’s murder rate published in September by the FBI.
The CDC tracks murders by analyzing information contained in death certificates. The FBI tallies murders by collecting information from thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country. Despite their different methodologies, both sources point to a sharp rise in the U.S. murder rate during the pandemic year of 2020, even as the rate itself remained well below the level of earlier decades.
Below are some key takeaways from the two new sets of government data.
[...]
5. It is not yet clear why murders rose dramatically in 2020. Experts have
pointed to a variety of potential causes .. https://www.vox.com/22344713/murder-violent-crime-spike-surge-2020-covid-19-coronavirus , including the economic and societal changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and changes in police-community relations after the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota last year. But the exact reasons remain unclear.
The FBI data, at least, shows that murder wasn’t the only form of violent crime to go up last year. The rate of aggravated assault rose nearly 12% between 2019 and 2020. And since aggravated assault is by far the most common type of violent crime tracked by the FBI, the overall violent crime rate in the U.S. also increased in 2020, by about 5%. Two other kinds of violent crime tracked by the FBI – rape and robbery – declined in 2020.
A line graph showing that the U.S. murder rate rose sharply in 2020, but remains below previous highs
6. Despite rising sharply in 2020, the U.S. murder rate remains below the levels of the early 1990s.
The 2020 homicide rate of 7.8 homicides per 100,000 people was 22% below the rate of 1991 (10 homicides per 100,000 people) and far below the rates recorded in much of the 1970s and 1980s, according to the CDC. As is the case for violent and property crime rates more broadly .. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/ , the U.S. murder rate has generally trended downward in recent decades, though 2020 was an obvious exception.
7. Americans remain far less likely to die from murder than from other causes, including from suicide and drug overdose. The U.S. murder rate in 2020 was 42% lower than the suicide rate (13.5 deaths per 100,000 people) and 71% below the mortality rate for drug overdose (27.1 deaths per 100,000 people, as of the third quarter of 2020), the CDC data shows. As was the case with murders, drug overdoses increased sharply in 2020.
That’s not to say that Americans aren’t concerned about violent crime. In a July 2021 Pew Research Center survey, 61% of U.S. adults said violent crime is a very big problem in the country today .. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/26/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-want-more-spending-on-police-in-their-area/ – up from 41% in June 2020 and the highest percentage measured since at least the fall of 2018. In the July poll, Americans were more likely to describe violent crime as a very big problem than to say the same thing about five other issues asked about in the survey: the federal budget deficit (50% said this was a very big problem), climate change (47%), racism (45%), economic inequality (44%) and illegal immigration (43%).
Since June 2020, Americans have also become more supportive of increasing local police funding in their communities .. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/26/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-want-more-spending-on-police-in-their-area/ . In a separate Center survey conducted in September, 47% of U.S. adults said they favored an increase in funding for police in their area, up from 31% last June. Support for reducing local police funding declined from 25% to 15%.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/
See again - Biden budget proposal calls for increase in law enforcement spending
“The answer is not to defund the police,” President Joe Biden said in a visit to New York City last month.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=168637092
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