MSNBC PoliticsNation June 4, 2024 21:20:00
Fearmongering about rising crime rates, because while it is true that violent crime rates rose in 2020 and appear to be on an upward trajectory so far in 2021, you can see by looking at this chart of the fbi data that violent crime is still close to its lowest point over the last 35 years. if you break that fbi data out and categorize it by crime type, you see that most types of violent crimes actually went down in the last year with homicide being the notable outlier. so what caused this jump in homicides? one factor was the steep increase in domestic violence murders. when americans were con...