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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And yet to maintain appropriate context:
a 12% reduction doesn’t come close to reversing the 30% increase of 2020 which was on top of a 20+% increase in the 5 years prior.
Just because it could be (and has been) worse doesn’t mean that it’s ok… and the overall trend in recent years should remain concerning.
Judd Legum
David Mitchell 