{"id":14707,"date":"2024-09-13T14:38:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14707"},"modified":"2024-09-13T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T14:38:15","slug":"violent-crime-is-plummeting-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14707","title":{"rendered":"Violent crime is plummeting. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Violent crime levels have dropped significantly in the first half of the year, according to a new report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, violent crime dropped by 6 percent and homicides fell by 17 percent in 69 cities compared to the same period last year. Columbus, Ohio, saw the biggest drop in violent crime at 41 percent<\/a>, according to an Axios data analysis. But cities including Miami, Washington, DC, and Austin, Texas, also saw large declines. Notably, New York City was not included in the data, though other reports<\/a> have indicated that violent crime is falling there, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to say exactly what\u2019s causing the decline, which comes after a major Covid-19 crime wave. It may be partially due to policies aimed at tackling crime at the federal, state, and local levels. But it may also just be a symptom of the fact that normal life in America has resumed post-pandemic \u2014 or a combination of those and other factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans have long tried to use concerns about crime as a political cudgel against President Joe Biden\u2019s administration. While former President Donald Trump doesn\u2019t appear to be giving up on that attack strategy just yet, Democrats can now use the new data as a defense. Whether that will be effective, however, is far from certain.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/366622\/violent-crime-dropping-pandemic-wave-2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Violent crime levels have dropped significantly in the first half of the year, according to a new report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association.
\nOverall, violent crime dropped by 6 percent and homicides fell by 17 percent in 69 cities compared to the same period last year. Columbus, Ohio, saw the biggest drop in violent crime at 41 percent, according to an Axios data analysis. But cities including Miami, Washington, DC, and Austin, Texas, also saw large declines. Notably, New York City was not included in the data, though other reports have indicated that violent crime is falling there, too.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to say exactly what\u2019s causing the decline, which comes after a major Covid-19 crime wave. It may be partially due to policies aimed at tackling crime at the federal, state, and local levels. But it may also just be a symptom of the fact that normal life in America has resumed post-pandemic \u2014 or a combination of those and other factors.<\/p>\n

Republicans have long tried to use concerns about crime as a political cudgel against President Joe Biden\u2019s administration. While former President Donald Trump doesn\u2019t appear to be giving up on that attack strategy just yet, Democrats can now use the new data as a defense. Whether that will be effective, however, is far from certain.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/366622\/violent-crime-dropping-pandemic-wave-2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[744,299],"class_list":["post-14707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crime","tag-crime-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14708,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions\/14708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}