Every violent crime is a tragedy. Behind the statistics are real people experiencing injury, trauma, and loss.
However, the great news is that far fewer Americans are personally involved in these tragedies than they were not so long ago, as the rate of violent crime continues to plummet. Despite false claims by Donald Trump that crime has increased under President Joe Biden, PolitiFact confirms that in 2022, the violent crime rate neared a 50-year low.
That’s not all. Preliminary statistics for 2023 indicate the lowest levels of violent crime ever recorded, dropping below previous records in 2014 and 2019. And that’s still not all, because right now it appears that 2024 is still trending down.
Americans are safer now than they have been in decades, and the numbers have only gotten better under Biden.
But you won’t hear that from Republicans, or Fox News, or much of the media. Because pushing fear is all they know.
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