Americans, you might look at the shoplifters, open-air drug markets and shuttered stores in cities across the country and think crime is on the rise, but according to NBC News, you'd be “wrong “.
Yes, you can all rest easy because NBC News has analyzed new data from one of the federal government's least trusted agencies, the FBI, and it “contradicts the widespread national perception that crime and violence are on the rise.” Ken Dilanian, justice and intelligence correspondent for the channel, write.
The problem, the article argues, is not progressive policies or opportunistic thugs, but “media stories and viral videos.”
“I think we've been conditioned, and we have no way of countering the idea” that crime is on the rise, said criminologist Jeff Asher.
Dilanian assures us that Asher “ran the FBI's numbers.”
“It's just an overwhelming number of news stories and viral videos — I have to believe that social media is playing a role,” the criminologist said.
The 77 percent of Americans who, according to a recent Gallup poll, believe crime is increasing are simply “wrong.”
Citing Asher, Dilanian reports: “FBI data, comparing crime rates for the third quarter of 2023 with the same period last year, found that violent crimes dropped 8%, while property crimes fell 6.3% to what would be their lowest level since 1961… Murder plummeted in the US in 2023 at one of the fastest rates of decline on record , Asher found, and all major crime categories except auto theft declined.”
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“However, 92% of Republicans, 78% of independents and 58% of Democrats believe crime is increasing, the Gallup poll shows,” says Dilanian.
Violent crime returned to pre-pandemic levels by 2022, according to Asher and the FBI's annual report, released in October.
“Detroit is on pace for the fewest murders since 1966, Asher found, while Baltimore and St Louis are on track to post the fewest murders in each city in nearly a decade,” Dilanian writes.
“Some cities, including Memphis and Washington DC, are still seeing increases in their murder rates,” he admits, “but they are outliers.”
Sure, San Francisco businesses are closing stores and fleeing California in droves and retailers are seeing their shelves emptied by gangs of brazen thieves, but “the data doesn't necessarily support” the idea that retail crime is shooting in some American cities, Dilanian. reports
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Of course, “FBI data does not have a separate category for retail theft,” the reporter claims. “It falls under the 'slump', which declined overall last year, according to the latest figures.”
How BizPac Review As he reported, the FBI's “data” contradicts a September survey by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Loss Prevention Research Council that revealed that retailers “lost more than $112 billion due to crime by 2022, an approximately 19% increase in losses from 2021.”
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AX, people seem more inclined to believe their own eyes than the FBI.
“Nobody trusts the FBI anymore,” one user told NBC News.
“You're actually worse than CNN,” said another. “I can't believe I'm even saying this, but it's true [sic].”
“The feds say crime isn't getting worse, grocery prices are fine, and shootings are totally safe,” wrote a third. “So just go back to sleep.”
No one believes the FBI anymore.
— Ted Blake ✝️ (@Tedblake1968Ted) December 17, 2023
You are actually worse than CNN. I can't believe he's saying that, but it's true.
— Alex (@Rabidcow1) December 16, 2023
The feds say crime isn't getting worse, grocery prices are fine, and shootings are totally safe. So just go back to sleep.
— UnBaffle.me (@unbaffle_me) December 16, 2023
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