Violent crime in America’s urban areas surged 40 percent from 2019 to 2023 under a Biden-Harris administration, according to the most recent National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and administered by the Census Bureau.
The findings contradict mainstream media assertions that crimes occurred under the Biden-Harris administration, a claim made by ABC's David Muir, for example, when attempting to fact-check former President Donald Trump during the presidential debate.
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data, Published The study, to be released in September 2024, will be based on official estimates of non-fatal crime victimization reported and unreported to police from the BJS's NCVS. The report describes crime and victim characteristics through 230,000 U.S. residents who were asked if they had ever been a victim of a crime. The study will be the 51st in a series dating back to the Nixon administration.
“Excluding simple assault, the violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony, the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19 percentage points higher than in 2019, the last full year before the movement to cut police budgets swept across the nation,” said Jeffrey H. Anderson, former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2017 to 2021. Reported Data The Wall Street Journal:
But crime has not risen evenly across the country. America's recent crime increases have been concentrated in urban areas, where left-leaning prosecutors have the strongest foothold, where police are most heavily scrutinized, and where lax enforcement and prosecution are the norm.
The results are not encouraging. According to the NCVS, urban violent crime rates increased by 40% from 2019 to 2023. Excluding simple assaults, urban violent crime rates increased by 54% over the same period. These rising crime rates appear to be the new norm in American cities, as urban violent crime rates did not change in a statistically significant way from 2022 to 2023.
Urban property crime rates are also worsening, rising from 176.1 crimes per 1,000 households in 2022 to 192.3 in 2023. This is part of a 26% increase in urban property crime rates since 2019. These figures do not include rampant shoplifting, as the NCVS is a survey of households, not businesses.
In contrast, in suburban and rural areas, violent crime rates have remained essentially unchanged since 2019.
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Anderson reported that the NCVS data is more reliable for five reasons. First, the numbers are “conclusive statistics.” Second, the FBI's reporting system makes year-to-year comparisons “difficult, if not impossible.” Third, the NCVS is a nationally representative survey. Fourth, the FBI is not the federal government's “primary statistical agency.” Fifth, “the NCVS captures crimes whether or not they are reported to the police.”
Read more about the skyrocketing crime rates under the Biden-Harris Administration here.
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