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FightFight

(246 posts)
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 10:12 PM Jan 2025

US poised to see dramatic drop in homicides for 3rd straight year More than 5,000 fewer homicides recorded in 2024

US poised to see dramatic drop in homicides for 3rd straight year More than 5,000 fewer homicides recorded in 2024

https://abcnews.go.com/US/united-states-drop-homicides-2024/story?id=116902123

Homicides across the United States are poised to plummet for the third straight year as 2024 winds down, driving the nation's annual murder toll down to levels not seen since before the pandemic, according to preliminary data from cities both large and small.

Based on available crime statistics from U.S. law enforcement agencies, the year is expected to end with a nearly 16% drop in homicides nationwide and a 3.3% decline in overall violent crime, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News.

The dramatic drop in homicides surpasses a 13% decline in 2023, then the largest decrease on record until now. In 2022, the number of murders across the country fell 6%, according to the FBI.


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HE HAS 34 FELONIES--LITERALLY A ONE MAN CRIME WAVE

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US poised to see dramatic drop in homicides for 3rd straight year More than 5,000 fewer homicides recorded in 2024 (Original Post) FightFight Jan 2025 OP
I wonder if we're back down to 2019 numbers yet? WarGamer Jan 2025 #1
Would it matter? maxsolomon Jan 2025 #3
But Dear Leader said we have crime such as nobody has ever seen. Maybe he was talking doc03 Jan 2025 #2
Epidemic of gun violence? sarisataka Jan 2025 #4
And we can expect Quanto Magnus Jan 2025 #5

maxsolomon

(38,162 posts)
3. Would it matter?
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 01:04 PM
Jan 2025

Mericans think we live in a crime-ridden hellscape and no facts can dissuade them.

doc03

(38,820 posts)
2. But Dear Leader said we have crime such as nobody has ever seen. Maybe he was talking
Thu Jan 2, 2025, 11:03 PM
Jan 2025

about his own crimes.

sarisataka

(22,216 posts)
4. Epidemic of gun violence?
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 01:09 PM
Jan 2025

I have been told it isn't safe to leave your house because it is likely a person will get shot going about their daily activities...

Maybe it was hyperbole or maybe we are doing something right

Quanto Magnus

(1,298 posts)
5. And we can expect
Fri Jan 3, 2025, 05:06 PM
Jan 2025

that they'll go up again over the next 4 years, which donOLD will blame on Biden

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