Statistics launched by the FBI on Tuesday present that violent crime decreased general within the U.S. by 4.5% in 2024.
The FBI’s annual crime report is made up of knowledge from over 16,000 businesses across the nation, protecting 95% of the U.S. inhabitants. Round 2% extra businesses submitted crime information in comparison with the 12 months prior. Notably, each metropolis company protecting a inhabitants of 1 million or extra submitted a full 12 months of knowledge for the 2024 report.
In line with the FBI, homicide and nonnegligent manslaughter decreased an estimated 14.9%; theft decreased an estimated 8.9%; rape decreased an estimated 5.2%; and aggravated assault decreased an estimated 3.0%.
Property crime additionally decreased an estimated 8.1% from 2023 to 2024, and hate crimes decreased an estimated 1.5% from 2023 to 2024, the report confirmed.
Estimates based mostly on reported crime have decreased, however the information nonetheless reveals that violent crime occurred a mean of each 25.9 seconds, and property crime occurred each 5.3 seconds, based on FBI Assistant Director Timothy Ferguson, who spoke throughout a media briefing name asserting the report.
The newly-released statistics as soon as once more contradict President Donald Trump’s claims that crime within the U.S. is uncontrolled.
“You may’t stroll throughout the road to get a loaf of bread. You get shot, you get mugged, you get raped,” Trump mentioned final 12 months throughout a marketing campaign occasion north of Detroit.
Whereas there was an general lower in crime, there was a rise in officers killed within the line of responsibility.
In 2024, 64 officers have been feloniously killed within the line of responsibility. A complete of 61 offenders have been reported in reference to these felonious killings. Firearms have been concerned in 46 of the 64 felonious deaths.
Throughout the identical 12 months, 43 officers have been by chance killed whereas on responsibility, most of whom died as a consequence of motor vehicle-related accidents.
In line with the FBI, reported assaults on officers reached a 10-year excessive, with over 85,700 assaults recorded in 2024.
“Between 2021 and 2024, we had 258 legislation enforcement officers feloniously killed within the line of responsibility,” which included 64 officers in 2024, based on an FBI official who additionally spoke on the decision asserting the report.
When requested why there was an uptick in reported officer assaults, an FBI official mentioned elevated reporting might have one thing to do with it.
“However I do suppose we agree with that premise, that we’re seeing a rise in legislation enforcement officers assaulted within the line of responsibility,” the official mentioned. “And whereas I don’t have a solution for you in the present day, what I can decide to you right here is that we’re conducting a examine proper now with our group to speak to victims and offenders to attempt to make a dedication on why these are occurring.”
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