According to the report, the city of Detroit recorded the fewest number of murders since the 1960s, while in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) the number of murders in 2023 decreased by more than 20% compared to last year.
The Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Washington cited a recent report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and statistics collected by criminologists and independent researchers showing that the US is recording the number of murders and murders. Many other types of crime will decrease sharply in 2023.
According to the report, the city of Detroit (Michigan state) recorded the fewest number of murders since the 1960s, while in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania state) the number of murders in 2023 decreased by more than 20% compared to last year.
In Los Angeles, the number of shooting victims also decreased by more than 200 people compared to two years ago. In addition, among the nine types of crimes related to crime and property tracked by the FBI, the only number that increased in the first three quarters of 2023 was motor vehicle theft.
The report shows that crime is generally decreasing across the United States. The murder rate dropped 13% in Chicago and 11% in New York, where shootings dropped 25%. Baltimore City (Maryland) is on track to record its lowest number of murders in nearly a decade, while Philadelphia announced murders 25% lower than its 2021 record of 562. In Los Angeles, Much of the decrease in homicides is due to a decrease in homeless homicides, with 35 fewer homeless people killed as of December 2023, a 55% decrease from 2022.
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic broke out and protests spread following the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, the US saw a record increase in murders. Criminologists attribute the recent drop in crime rates to the waning COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Jeff Asher, a crime analyst based in New Orleans who tracks murders in nearly 180 US cities, the biggest reason murders haven’t increased may be because the pandemic has passing through and partly due to incidents occurring in each residential area or individual street.
However, although the number of murders and shootings in the US has decreased, it is still higher than pre-COVID-19 levels. Many cities are returning to a state of crime, with the places with the highest records still experiencing hundreds of shootings each year. Some cities bucked the positive trend, like Washington, DC, where the number of murders in 2023 reached a two-decade high and there were more than 900 carjackings.