06/12/2024

New FBI Statistics Show 'Historic' Declines in Violent Crime Rate

The incidence of murder showed the sharpest drop

The latest FBI statistics point to a "historic" drop in crime in the first quarter of this year, Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

And this, after a year in which the murder rate fell at one the fastest rates ever recorded, a top criminologist added.

"This should be good news for everybody," criminologist Jeff Asher, who analyzed the FBI numbers, told NBC News. "But it's also early June and the trend of the nation's crime rate is always uncertain."

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