{"id":6602,"date":"2021-11-17T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6602"},"modified":"2021-11-17T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:26:18","slug":"survey-finds-no-rise-in-anti-asian-violence-assaults-declined-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6602","title":{"rendered":"Survey Finds No Rise in Anti-Asian Violence, Assaults Declined in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Some recent evidence has suggested that the national period of declining crime\u2014which began in the mid-1990s<\/a>, as rate of violence fell dramatically in the U.S.\u2014may be over: The most recent Uniform Crime Report (UCR), an important though incomplete snapshot of homicides nationwide, found that homicide had increased<\/a> by 30 percent from 2019 to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But just-released data from the National Crime Victimization Survey<\/a> (NCVS) paints a much less depressing picture. According to the 2020 NCVS report, the violent crime rate actually declined <\/em>last year, if homicides are excluded. Moreover, the popular narrative that former President Donald Trump’s anti-China rhetoric caused some spike in hate crimes<\/a> against Asian-Americans appears to be wrong. For Asian-American victims, both the violent crime rate and simple assault rate declined from 2019 to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s important to interpret these findings cautiously. The NCVS does not count homicides; the data comes from telephone interviews with random Americans. It’s thus a scientific survey, rather than a tally of actual crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UCR, on the other hand, consists of crimes reported to the FBI by law enforcement agencies. Police departments are not required <\/em>to report any information at all, which means that the UCR is in some ways more accurate\u2014these are verified <\/em>reported crimes\u2014but also more statistically unreliable<\/a>. Year-to-year fluctuations in the data might represent different reporting procedures rather than any actual increase in crime; the overall number of crimes reported to the FBI is obviously just a small snapshot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public should take the findings from both reports with a grain of salt. It could be the case, obviously, that murders in cities increased while other categories of crime decreased elsewhere; it’s also possible that certain minority communities suffered increased crime in a manner that isn’t captured by the data. But with so much bad news about rising violence, the NCVS data suggests that things might not be as bad as we think.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Survey Finds No Rise in Anti-Asian Violence, Assaults Declined in 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>