2023 Crime Stats from FBI just Released -- Murder Rate Dropped Nearly 12% from 2022 to 5.8 per 100k!

U.S. property crime trends for the same period likewise saw an overall decrease of 2.4% relative to 2022, with burglaries down 7.6% and larcenies down 4.4%. Motor vehicle thefts OTOH were up by a whopping 12.6%. Interestingly, even hate crime incidents showed a marginal drop of 0.6% in 2023 relative to 2022. So the bogus Republican talking point about crime rates exploding during the Biden Administration is, not surprisingly, just so much malarky — while they did indeed increase dramatically during the Covid-19 pandemic, nearly all of that increase actually...