1. The US murder rate is down an 12% year-to-date, based on 90 cities that have released data.
If the trend holds it will be the single largest annual decline in the murder rate ever recorded.
And yet, you probably haven't heard anything about it.
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@juddlegum @codinghorror It's also notable that other forms of crime are declining as well. The felony rate in the NYC subway, which was a major issue in our mayoral elections in 2021 and continued to drive policy through 2022 and into 2023, is down 20% YoY. Also one of the (if not the largest) drop recorded.
It does remain to be seen how seasonality affects this but this is astounding and underreported. I only know about it because of the good work of @ndhapple
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