Killings in the U.S. are dropping at a historic rate. Will anyone notice?
www.latimes.com
Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn't increased. But the perception of a crime wave still colors U.S. politics.
    • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      To be fair we won’t know if those rise or fall, because for some reason they don’t track it.

  • julianwgsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My favorite statistic on this topic is that there are roughly 8 times as many murders per capita in the US as in Germany and 4 times as many murders per capita in Mexico as in the US. So as a German the US is much less safe* in comparison of Mexico to the US. Something to think about.

    *regarding homicide

    Germany: 0.8 per 100,000 inhabitants (2021) USA: 6.8 per 100,000 inhabitants (2021) Mexico: 28.2 per 100,000 inhabitants (2021)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate