Report: Urban Violent Crime Spikes 40% Under Biden-Harris

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Posted on 09/23/2024 10:38:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Violent crime in urban America soared 40 percent from 2019 to 2023 under the Biden-Harris administration, according to the latest National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) run by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and administered by the Census Bureau.

The finding contradicts an establishment media narrative that crime fell under the Biden-Harris administration. For example, ABC’s David Muir made the claim when he tried to fact-check former President Donald Trump during the presidential debate. The data, published in September 2024, is based on official estimates of nonfatal criminal victimizations reported and not reported to police from BJS’s NCVS. The report describes the characteristics of crimes and victims via 230,000 U.S. residents who are asked if they have been the victims of crimes. The survey is the 51st in the series, dating back to the Nixon administration. “Excluding simple assault — the type of violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony — the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19% higher than in 2019, the last year before the defund-the-police movement swept the country,” Jeffrey H. Anderson, the former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2017-21, reported of the data in the Wall Street Journal:

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