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Originally Posted by Crawford
2023 ended up with lower overall violent crime than 2019, so most of these numbers would be a lot better in 2023 than in 2019.
Also, why compare to 2019? Why not 1819? Any way you slice it, the fact is that violent crime in the U.S. is plummeting, while a prevailing narrative claims the opposite. In the last 50 years, the U.S. hasn't been safer than the present.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...pinion/676365/ |
I think because 2020-2022 were statistical outliers as far as crime and social instability. 2019 was the last full year where life was "normal"; pre-Covid, pre-George Floyd, pre-economic chaos due to Covid, etc