CrimeinAmerica1

Updated February 2024

Note: Editing continues as we incorporate new data.

Overview

A comprehensive, reader-friendly overview of crime with a focus on violence in the United States.

Summations of yearly sources/links are included for FBI and National Crime Victimization Survey statistics along with other authoritative data.

Keywords: Crime, violent crime, crime rates, crime statistics, violence, crime in the United States, crime in the US, crime in America, crime research, FBI, National Crime Survey, National Crime Victimization Survey, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Gallup.

Quotes are edited for brevity.


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Author

Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr.

Thirty-five years of explaining crime data while directing multi-award-winning public relations for national and state criminal justice agencies.Retired federal senior spokesperson. Interviewed multiple times by every national news outlet.

Former Senior Specialist for Crime Prevention for the Department of Justice’s clearinghouse. Former Director of Information Services, National Crime Prevention Council. Former Adjunct Associate Professor of Criminology and Public Affairs-University of Maryland, University College.

Former advisor to presidential and gubernatorial campaigns. Former advisor to the “McGruff-Take a Bite Out of Crime” national media campaign. Certificate of Advanced Study-Johns Hopkins University. Former police officer.

Author of ”Success With The Media: Everything You Need To Survive Reporters and Your Organization” available at Amazon and additional booksellers.

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A Layperson-Friendly Summation And Analysis of Crime And Fear of Crime Data for Recent Years

My Background:

I summarized crime and justice issues for dignitaries and practitioners when I worked for two US Department of Justice agencies, The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (senior specialist for crime prevention) and the National Crime Prevention Council (director of information services). 

I supplied overviews of crime and criminal justice topics to every national and international media source for 35 years as a director of public information for state criminal justice agencies along with the national entities cited above.

I take the complicated topics of crime and justice and offer observations and research summations that the non-criminologist can understand based on my academic and criminal justice experience which includes six years in law enforcement. 

What This Article Does:

This article puts relevant research and data on crime, fear of crime, victim information, crimes reported (and unreported) to law enforcement, an overview of who’s victimized, and other relevant topics in one place.    

It offers a yearly summation of crimes (and links) by year from the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey, the two principal resources on crime from the US Department of Justice.

The last entry of this article explains the difference in data offered by the FBI (crimes reported to law enforcement) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (a survey of crime victims similar to the national census). Those differences are reexamined throughout this article. Understanding the variances may assist readers in comprehending the findings of both reports. The National Crime Victimization Survey is a product of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Both BJS and the FBI are US Department of Justice agencies with long histories of offering crime data.

There is significant intricacy when discussing crime statistics.  Analyzing crime becomes complex because readers have to go to multiple reports or locations to understand primary sources.

We put most of the relevant data here so users can gain quick access and a better perception of crime in America.

This article offers a comprehensive overview of crime since 2015 (older data is included) with a focus on violent crime in the United States.

We try to be layperson-friendly in our presentation and use of data from a variety of federal and reputable sources.

It’s not necessary to review all sections. Please feel free to scroll to the topic that interests you.

Topics by category are listed below.

This Report Contains Four Sections: 

1. An analysis of crime data for recent years (2015-2023) with an emphasis on violent crime. Older data is included for context.

2022 is the latest yearly data available from the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey. Both were released in the fall of 2023. The FBI is releasing quarterly crime statistics and offers crime data for the first three months of 2023 (below). 

2. It includes summaries of FBI and National Crime Victimization Survey data including links (below). The FBI offers crimes reported to law enforcement agencies, where the National Crime Victimization Survey (sometimes referred to as the National Crime Survey) counts all crimes through a methodology similar to the national census via interviews. Both are US Department of Justice agencies.

A minority of violent crimes are reported to law enforcement (42 percent) hence the need for a national survey.  The National Crime Victimization Survey originates from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

3. There is additional data from Gallup. Other sources are listed throughout the article.

4. There is an explanation of the differences between the FBI (crimes reported to law enforcement) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (a measure of all crime) at the bottom of this report.

Subsections Of This Report

Page 2: New-Increased Use Of Big City Police Crime Dashboard Data-What Could Affect Crime Reporting To Law Enforcement

Page 3: Property Crime-The Long-Term Decline In Property Crime Is Over

Page 4: Complexity Of Understanding National Crime Statistics

Page 4: Examples of Complexity Of Crime Statistics

Page 5: Quick Summation Of The Most Recent Yearly Violent Crime Data-2022

Page 6: Quick Summation Of Yearly Violent Crime Data-2021

Page 7: Context-Historic Lows in Crime Before 2015

Page 7: Have Past Historic Lows for Violent Crime Ended?

Page 8: Latest Crime Data From Researchers-2023-Homicides and Shootings Are Down?

Page 9: Latest Crime Data From Media Reports-2022-Homicides Decreasing? Big Increases For Some Categories

Page 10: Latest Crime Data From Media Reports-2021-Increasing Crime

Page 11: FBI’s New Method Of Collecting and Reporting Crime Data

Page 12: A Focus On The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey

The Rest Of This Report:

Page 13: Who’s Impacted? Data On Victims Of Crime And Violence

Page 14: Violent Crime Never Increased?

Page 15: Crime Reporting To Law Enforcement

Page 16: Fear of Crime

Page 17: Identity Theft-Fraud

Page 17: Claimed National Election Decreases In Violent Crime From The FBI and BJS 

Page 18: DOJ Report-Repeat Victimization 50 Percent of All Violent Victimization

Page 19: Summaries Of FBI and National Crime Victimization Survey Data Over Time Plus Links:

Page 19: Brief Yearly Summation-FBI-2022-Most Recent Yearly Data

Page 19: Brief Yearly Summation-National Crime Victimization Surve-2022-Most Recent Yearly Data

Page 20: FBI-Crimes Reported to Police-Extended Summary of Recent Years

Page 21: National Crime Victimization Survey-Extended Summary of Recent Years

Page 22: Links For The Latest Data Involving Crimes Reported To Law Enforcement Agencies (through the FBI) Includes FBI  Press Releases.

Page 22: Links For The Latest Data From The National Crime Victimization Survey are contained on their website.

Page 23: Data From Gallup

Page 24: Three National Measures of Violence-The FBI, the National Crime Victimization Survey, And Gallup

Links For The Latest National Yearly Crime Reports

National Crime Victimization Survey

FBI

1.

New-Use Of Big City Police Crime Dashboard Data

Are City Crime Numbers An Accurate Indication Of National Crime?

What Affects Crime Reporting To Law Enforcement?

What Affects Crime Statistics?

Why do I start with crime reports based on big-city crime dashboards? The method is now used by three groups and they are driving the current conversation of whether crime is increasing or decreasing in the United States.

People are tired of waiting for the FBI to release crime data for the previous year in the fall. But, interestingly, the FBI seems to be releasing national 2023 data faster than ever before.

Numbers for 2023 per big city crime dashboard data have their own section below. See page 8.

Numbers from the FBI for the first three-quarters of 2023 are below.

Jeff Asher states that he is confident that crime reductions will be significant in 2023.

Because of concerns with FBI data (sufficient participation by law enforcement agencies-most crimes are not reported) and National Crime Victimization Survey numbers (possible redesign-difficult to interpret), crime writers and analysts have turned to big city police crime dashboards to gain a current (2023) view of crimes reported to law enforcement. Big city crime numbers can influence crime statistics for an entire state.

The FBI used to report crimes for the previous year in the Fall (i.e., 2022 data was released in the fall of 2023). However, the FBI is now fast-tracking the release of 2023 crime data, and numbers for the first three quarters of 2023 are now available.

Like all crime statistics, caution is urged; there may be variables that affect the willingness of people to report crimes (i.e., the vast majority of crimes are not reported to law enforcement).

Variables include: 42 percent of violent and 32 percent of property crimes are reported to the police, excessive wait times for police officers to arrive due to losing thousands of officers to resignations or retirement impeding crime reporting, issues with police-community relations due to protests and negative media coverage of the police use of force, police officers not writing reports because they believe that criminal justice reforms negate their efforts or they are discouraged to create reports due to pressure over crime numbers.

Note that arrests have plummeted over the last two decades and arrests declined sharply since the beginning of the police use of force protests (2014) and COVID-19 (2020) thus there is evidence that events affect numbers. If there’s no arrest and no paperwork, was the crime counted in official statistics? In Washington, D.C., there are disputes over what counts as a homicide. Crimes solved have also declined considerably.

Decreases in reported crime could also be nothing more than an ebb and flow of crime numbers over time. After the Major Cities Chiefs Association report stated that homicides increased by 50 percent and aggravated assaults increased by 36 percent from 2019-2022, it was inevitable that reported violence would decrease regardless of interventions (known as a regression to the mean or average). Increases or decreases in crime always change over time regardless of crime interventions. 

For 2023, a collection of three reports using big city crime dashboards suggested that violent crime decreased (see below). We are coming to grips with this data and its accuracy as a predictor of national crime.

FBI quarterly national crime reports that seem to validate the use of big-city crime dashboards as an indicator of national crime trends. 

Crimes Reported To Law Enforcement Have Additional Issues For Reliability and Accuracy

Beyond being a small subset of total crime, there are other issues to consider with reported crimes:

There is a long history of manipulating data (including homicides) downward at the local level for endless reasons.

The majority of violent crimes involve someone the victim knows (including family members) making reporting difficult. Many of these events are seen by the victim as a private matter.

Major law enforcement organizations are still having issues transitioning to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (although the percentage has greatly improved). Some suggest that it’s having an impact on crime reporting.

There are close to 19,000 police agencies in the US. Getting all to define and report crime accurately is a daunting task. For example, there are thousands of law enforcement agencies stating that there were no hate crimes in their jurisdiction for the latest reporting period

2.

Note: Crime Reports Vary By Methods Of Data Collection

This report uses data from various sources that collect crime numbers in different ways and offers their findings in divergent formats. Reports may differ based on the methodologies used and how they report their findings. Disagreements as to findings may be nothing more than how the data was collected and presented.

Divergent reports collect and report crime data differently; it’s not a matter of correct or incorrect data.

Property Crime-The Long Term Decline Is Over Based On 2022 (Latest Yearly Data) Statistics

But FBI Data For The First Three Quarters Of 2023 Indicate Decreases Except For Vehicle Theft 

While most of this report focuses on violent crime, it’s important to note that there “was” a considerable and continuous decrease in property crime over time (with some exceptions from the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey) until the National Crime Victimization Survey for 2022 released data saying that:

Households in the United States experienced 13.4 million property victimizations in 2022, up from 11.7 million in 2021.

The rate of property victimization in 2022 was 101.9 victimizations per 1,000 households, higher than the rate in 2021 (90.3 per 1,000).

Vehicle theft dramatically increased in both the 2022 yearly reports from the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey.

The property crime rate increased considerably for the first time since 2012 per the FBI’s 2022 report.

Thus the steady decline in property victimization seems to be over, at least for 2022.

Per Gallup, Americans are most likely to have experienced theft, with 14% saying money or property was stolen from them or another household member in the past year. Vandalism, at 12%, is also one of the more common crimes. The biggest increase observed in 2021 was three percentage points for burglary, with 5% saying their home or apartment was broken into in the past year (link below).

Per one source for 2023, nearly all categories of nonviolent theft have increased: residential burglaries, up 6 percent; nonresidential burglaries, up 8 percent; larcenies up by a striking 20 percent; and motor vehicle thefts, up 15 percent per the Council On Criminal Justice (link below).

Retail shrink (shoplifting-organized attacks) hit $94.5 billion in 2021, a 53% jump from 2019, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey of around 60 retail member companies, CNN.

Note: New data below for the first three quarters of 2023 from the FBI offers declines in property crime except for vehicle theft.

3.

Complexity Of Understanding National Crime Statistics

Yes, It’s confusing. Sometimes massively so. Even those of us who spend a lifetime examining national crime statistics become bewildered by the complexity of crime and its accurate reporting.

Yearly data from the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey (the two principal sources of federal crime numbers) was submitted for 2022 in the fall of 2023.

Regardless, the current crime discussion is influenced by last year’s numbers. The 2022 data is the most current national crime statistics.

Examples of Complexity Of Crime Statistics

To give you an indication of the complexity of crime statistics, there are huge increases in violent crime in 2022 (44 percent per Jeff Asher and The Marshall Project) and large increases in violence for groups per the National Crime Victimization Survey. A 44 percent increase in violence would be the largest ever recorded. Yet, according to the FBI, violence decreased slightly in 2022.

As to FBI data for 2021, only 52 percent of law enforcement agencies participated in the FBI’s new National Incident-Based Reporting System by submitting a full year of data. Major police agencies like New York and Los Angeles did not participate.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics states that the violent victimization rate dropped by 22 percent in 2020, Criminal Victimization 2020. This is the largest decrease in violence ever reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. It was released in October 2021.

Per 2020 FBI final statistics released in September 2021, the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, the largest single-year increase the agency has recorded since it began tracking these crimes in the 1960s. Overall violent crime and aggravated assaults also increased. Historically, homicides have been used as an indicator of overall violence.

Per the National Crime Victimization Survey in 2019, violence decreased, then was flat, but decreased again, all in the same year.

Final example: As stated above, crime increased considerably in 2022 per the National Crime Victimization Survey. Per criminologist Jeff Asher and The Marshall Project violent crime increased 44 percent which would be the largest increase in violent crime ever reported. 

Yet crime decreased in 2023 per data reported to law enforcement as recorded by three sources using large city police crime dashboards, see US Violence Is Both Increasing And Decreasing? Who’s Right?

Violent and property crime also decreased per the FBI for the first three quarters of 2023

4.

Quick Summation Of The Most Recent “Full Year” Violent And Property Crime Data-2022

The latest report (August 2023) from the National Crime Victimization Survey for 2022 states:

Note: Violent crime increased by 44 percent in 2022 according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (per Jeff Asher and The Marshall Project) but the Bureau of Justice Statistics did not provide this statistic. A 44 percent increase is the largest ever recorded.

The violent victimization rate increased from 16.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2021 to 23.5 per 1,000 in 2022.

There were 6.6 million violent victimizations of persons age 12 or older in the United States in 2022, up from 4.6 million in 2021.

Many groups had large percentage increases in violent victimization.

Households in the United States experienced 13.4 million property victimizations in 2022, up from 11.7 million in 2021.

The rate of property victimization in 2022 was 101.9 victimizations per 1,000 households, higher than the rate in 2021 (90.3 per 1,000).

In 2022, about 2 in 5 (42%) violent victimizations were reported to police.

Motor vehicle theft victimization increased from a rate of 4.3 victimizations per 1,000 households in 2021 to 5.5 per 1,000 in 2022.

About 10% of violent victimizations involved a firearm in 2022, an increase from 2021 (7%).

In 2022, about 1.24% (3.5 million) of persons age 12 or older nationwide experienced at least one violent crime.

The latest report (October 2023) from the FBI for 2022 (crimes reported to law enforcement) states:

The FBI offers 12 categories of crimes (13 including hate crimes). Four categories decreased, six categories increased and one (burglary) was flat. Hate crimes increased.

The FBI’s crime statistics estimates for 2022 show that national violent crime decreased an estimated 1.7% in 2022 compared to 2021 estimates.

Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2022 estimated nationwide decrease of 6.1% compared to the previous year.

In 2022, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 5.4% decrease.

Aggravated assault in 2022 decreased an estimated 1.1% in 2022.

Robbery showed an estimated increase of 1.3% nationally.

The property crime rate increased considerably for the first time since 2012.

The rate of arson increased considerably.

The rate for burglaries was flat.

The rate of larcenies-thefts increased.

The rate of motor vehicle thefts increased considerably.

The FBI reported a 6.9% increase in hate crimes from 2021 to 2022 and a rise in law enforcement participating in reporting, Axios.

Associated Press-The estimated number of juvenile victims of fatal gun violence rose 11.8 percent.

A Quick Summation For The First Three Quarters of 2023 From The FBI

The new report (December 2024) from the FBI For The First Three Quarters of 2023 (crimes reported to law enforcement):

The FBI offered new third-quarter (January through September 2023) crime statistics for cities, metro, and nonmetropolitan areas in 2023. Observations:

Decreases are across the board for all crimes except for increases in Motor Vehicle Theft.

11,806 law enforcement agencies out of 19,000 participated.

Violent crime fell by 8.2 percent.

Murder fell by 15.6 percent

Rape fell by 14.8 percent

Robbery fell by 9.4 percent

Aggravated Assault fell by 6.8 percent

Property crime fell by 6.3 percent

Burglary fell by 11.7 percent

Larceny-Theft fell by 8.5 percent

Arson fell by 11.8 percent

Motor Vehicle Theft increased by 10.1 percent

The largest decreases are for 9 cities of one million or more except for a 35.1 percent increase in Motor Vehicle Theft.

The second largest decreases are for 45 cities of 250,000 to 499,000 except for a 14.3 percent increase in Motor Vehicle Theft.

The remaining cities recorded decreases in the 4-10 percent range.

Metropolitan areas had a 5.8 percent decrease in violent crime.

Nonmetropolitan areas had an 8.3 percent decrease in violent crime

FBI Chart-First Three Quarters Of 2023

FBI Crime Statistics-2023

5.

Quick Summation Of National Yearly Violent Crime Data-2021 

To suggest that the numbers for 2021 are massively complex (based on their methodologies and problems collecting data) would be an understatement.

You could legitimately state that violent crime did not increase in 2021 based on numbers from the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey.

But it’s equally correct to state that, per the FBI, homicides increased considerably between 2019 and 2021 (nearly 30 percent in 2020 and 4.3 percent in 2021) and that murders have been traditionally used by criminologists as an indicator of all violent crime. Rapes also increased in 2021.

The 2021 US firearm homicides (81 percent of all murders) were the highest since the 1990s, Centers For Disease Control (CDC) data show. They recorded an 8.3 percent increase in 2021, CNN.

The risk of victimization while a person was out in public rose by nearly 40% by April 2020, National Academy Of Sciences.

From 2020 to 2021, the violent victimization rate increased from 19.0 to 24.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in urban areas while remaining unchanged in suburban or rural areas. The rate of serious (excluding common assaults) violent victimization in urban areas also increased, per the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey.

Per Gallup, there is a big increase in the criminal victimization of urban households in 2021, 30 percent compared to 22 percent in 2020. Seven percent of urban residents were violently victimized compared to 3% of U.S. adults. The collective data (urban crime victimization-computer crime) indicates a growing crime problem for at least half of American households (link below).

Per other reputable sources, there were increases in aggravated assaults, firearm assaults, and motor vehicle thefts (links below).

Yet it’s the official position of the US Department of Justice via the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey that overall violent crime was flat for 2021.

Sources for the above are available at New US Crime Data.

See below for historical data from the FBI and Bureau of Justice Statistics-National Crime Victimization Survey, 2015 to 2022.

6.

Context-Historic Lows Before 2015 (the year violent crime increased by 28 percent over three years per the Bureau of Justice Statistics-National Crime Victimization Survey.

You will hear from a variety of sources that violence in 2022 and 2023 is far below that of previous decades which is true yet fear of crime (see below) is currently at record highs.

There is also data indicating that most Americans are victimized by crime each year if you include violent, property, identity theft, and cyber crimes. Repeat victimizations may have an impact on understanding these numbers. 

A pattern of crime increases for some (not all) years seems to begin in 2015. See the yearly summation below.

Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey state that we were at record historical lows for criminal activity. From 1993 to 2015, the rate of violent crime declined from 79.8 to 18.6 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older.

From 1993 to 2021, the rate of violent victimization declined from 79.8 to 16.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older.

According to FBI numbers, the violent crime rate fell 48 percent between 1993 and 2016. Using data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (National Crime Victimization Survey), the rate fell by 74 percent during that span.

Have Past Historic Lows for Violent Crime Ended? 

Yes according to record increases in violence (44 percent) per the National Crime Victimization Survey, Jeff Asher and The Marshall Project for 2022.

No according to the three sources using big city police crime dashboards documenting decreases in violence for 2023.

No according to the FBI via fewer homicides and a small decrease in overall violent crime in 2022.

No according to the FBI for the first three quarters of 2023 showing declines for all crime except for vehicle theft.

Yes per Gallup, the Centers For Disease Control (via gun homicides), and additional reputable sources (principally in urban areas).

Yes for urban areas according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics via the National Crime Victimization Survey for 2021.

Yes per the national consensus on fear of crime, polls on national priorities, firearms (now in 52 percent of households per Gallup), and security purchases plus local news reports is that violent crime is up considerably in recent years.

7.

Latest Crime Data From Researchers Using Big City Police Crime Dashboards-2023

Homicides and Shootings Are Down?

Please note that the latest National Crime Victimization Survey data for 2022 indicates that violent crime increased by 44 percent (to my knowledge, the largest increase in violent crime ever recorded). See The Marshall Project and Jeff Asher

2022 data is considered “current” for 2023 but it’s one year behind. 

But the data below are from 2023 using big city police crime dashboard numbers.

2023 Crime Summation From Jeff Asher

See Jeff Asher’s latest reports indicating that there are significant reductions in crime.

To summarize the crime trends so far: Murder plummeted in the United States in 2023, likely at one of the fastest rates of decline ever recorded. What’s more, every type of Uniform Crime Report Part I crime with the exception of auto theft is likely down a considerable amount this year relative to last year according to newly reported data through September from the FBI.

2023 Yearly Crime Summation From The Council On Criminal Justice

This study updates and supplements previous U.S. crime trends reports by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) with data through December 2023. It examines monthly rates at which 12 offenses are reported to law enforcement in 38 American cities. 

The number of homicides in the 32 study cities providing homicide data was 10% lower—representing 515 fewer homicides—in 2023 than in 2022.

Looking at other violent offenses, there were 3% fewer reported aggravated assaults in 2023 than in 2022 and 7% fewer gun assaults in 11 reporting cities. Reported carjacking incidents fell by 5% in 10 reporting cities but robberies and domestic violence incidents each rose 2%.

Among property crimes, reports of residential burglaries (-3%), nonresidential burglaries (-7%), and larcenies (-4%) all decreased in 2023 compared to 2022. The number of drug offenses increased by 4% over the same period.

Motor vehicle theft, a crime that has been on the rise since the summer of 2020, continued its upward trajectory through 2023. There were 29% more reported motor vehicle thefts in 2023 than in 2022.

Most violent offenses remained elevated in 2023 compared to 2019, the year prior to the outbreak of COVID and the widespread social unrest of 2020. There were 18% more homicides in the study cities in 2023 than in 2019, and carjacking has spiked by 93% during that period.

Property crime trends have been more mixed. There were fewer residential burglaries and larcenies and more nonresidential burglaries in 2023 than in 2019. Motor vehicle thefts more than doubled (+105%) during this timeframe, while drug crimes fell by 27%. A dashboard of all crime rates and percent changes from 2019 to 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 is located at the end of this report.

2023 Crime Summation-First Three Quarters-From The Major Cities Chiefs Association

Crime In Cities
Crime In Cities

For a list of cities where crime is decreasing or increasing in 2023, see ABC News.

8.

Latest Crime Data From Media Reports2022

Why offer data from media reports? Most of what the public is exposed to regarding crime does not come from official sources. It comes from the media.

Remember that officially, violent crime decreased slightly in 2022 per the FBI, and the National Crime Victimization Survey offers huge increases for violent crime for groups with Jeff Asher and The Marshall Project stating that violence rose 44 percent in 2022. Per the FBI, homicides decreased by 6 percent.

The Marshall Project: There are continuing signs that murder rates are falling in some U.S. cities. Preliminary data suggests homicides were down 30% in Los Angeles, 11% in Chicago, and 19% in New York City in the first two months of this year. Sentencing Law And Policy Editor’s note: that’s not the case for Washington, D.C., and several other cities.

The Crime Report: The number of homicides and gun assaults began to fall in the first six months of 2022, but they still remain at a troubling high level, according to a cautious analysis released by the Council on Criminal Justice. A study of about two dozen cities where overall crime data was available showed that the number of murders dropped by 2 percent between January and June of this year, compared to the same period in 2021. That amounted to a decrease of 54 homicides, researchers said. They pointed out that aggravated assault numbers in the cities under review still rose by 4 percent, and robberies spiked by 19 percent. It is not clear whether they indicate a definitive reversal of what the researchers acknowledge was a “historic” 30 percent increase in murders between  2019 and 2020. At the same time, nearly all categories of nonviolent theft have increased: residential burglaries, up 6 percent; nonresidential burglaries, up 8 percent; larcenies, up by a striking 20 percent; and motor vehicle thefts, up 15 percent.

The Crime Report: Nationwide, shootings are down four percent this year compared to the same time last year, with murders in big cities down three percent, potentially making this the first year since 2018 in which the numbers fell in the U.S. reports the New York Times.

Axios And The Major Cities Chiefs Association: Homicides in major U.S. cities are dropping in 2022, but total violent crime continues to rise, according to a midyear survey of large law enforcement agencies. Why it matters: The annual midyear survey shows that violent crime rates still haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels, but homicides and rapes in some cities appear to be falling. By the numbers: Overall violent crime spiked 4.2% from Jan. 1 to June 30, 2022, compared to the same period as last year, the survey by the Major Cities Chiefs Association found.

  • Robbery skyrocketed by nearly 12% and aggravated assaults increased by around 3%, the survey of 70 agencies found.
  • Homicides decreased by 2.4% and rapes fell by 5% in major cities, offering hope that some of the most violent crimes might be leveling off from significant increases in 2020, as reported to the FBI.

See the data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association here.

Yes, but: Compared to 2019 midyear figures, the same cities in total have experienced a 50% increase in homicides and a roughly 36% increase in aggravated assaults.

Substack: Murder in the United States rose at the fastest pace ever recorded in 2020 and it rose again in 2021, but murder is likely falling nationally 2022. Publicly available shooting data from two dozen cities suggests the decline in murder is being driven by gun violence dropping in many cities with a handful of places seeing sharp declines.

CNN: New York Police Department data shows that since January, NYC has seen an over 17% drop in shootings and an over 12% drop in homicides. However, an NYPD crime statistics report also notes that as of December 18, overall crime this year in major categories (including murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and grand larceny) has increased by 23.5% since last year.

From USA Today: It’s widely known the U.S. doesn’t have reliable federal data on crime trends. But a new report out Thursday aims to provide a snapshot of what happened in dozens of the nation’s largest cities last year. Homicides and gun assaults in those cities fell in 2022. At the same time, robberies and property crimes rose, and motor vehicle thefts and carjackings continued to trend upward, according to the report from the Council on Criminal Justice.

9.

Latest Crime Data From Media Reports2021

Why offer data from media reports? Most of what the public is exposed to regarding crime does not come from official sources. It comes from the media.

We have statistics from the FBI for 2021 and the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey for 2021 stating that overall violent crime in the nation did not increase. However, all indications from news reports indicate a growing problem with homicides and other forms of violent crime.

Pew: Children and Teens Killed by Gunfire in the US Increased 50%. The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest annual mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2021, 46% of all gun deaths among children and teens involved Black victims, even though only 14% of the U.S. under-18 population that year was Black. Homicide was the largest single category of gun deaths among children and teens in 2021, accounting for 60% of the total that year.

CNN: A Record Number Of People Are Dying From Firearm Injuries.A record number of people are dying from firearm injuries in the US, and new research suggests that shootings are becoming more lethal, too. Most victims of fatal firearm injuries die at the scene of the shooting, before they can be treated in a health care setting. But that has become increasingly common over the past two decades. About 57% of firearm fatalities in 2021 occurred at the scene of the shooting, up 9% since 1999, according to a research letter published Wednesday in the JAMA Surgery journal. For this analysis, researchers used data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and excluded suicides and other self-inflicted firearm injuries. Nearly 49,000 people died from firearm injuries in the US in 2021, CDC data shows – an unprecedented surge of about 23% over two years during the Covid-19 pandemic.

CBS: Homicides in major American cities ticked up in 2021, with a 5% increase from 2020 and a 44% increase over 2019.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted an “attitude of lawlessness” across the country Wednesday, decrying a recent surge in smash-and-grab crimes – particularly in her hometown of San Francisco – but refusing to admit it stems from police funding cuts and bail reform measures pushed by left-wing lawmakers. “It’s absolutely outrageous,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) said when asked about the crime spike. “It must be stopped, and it’s not just San Francisco,” Pelosi emphasized. “It’s in our entire country,” NY Post, (rearranged quotes).

Gallup: There is a big increase in the criminal victimization of urban households in 2021, 30 percent compared to 22 percent in 2020. Seven percent of urban residents were violently victimized compared to 3% of U.S. adults. The majority of Americans live in urban areas. The collective data (urban crime victimization-computer crime) indicates a growing crime problem for at least half of American households, Gallup.

CNN: So far, 2021 is on pace to be the worst year for gun violence in decades, surpassing even the high levels last year. More than two-thirds of the country’s most populous cities have seen more homicides in 2021 than last year, a continuation of the troubling increase in homicides that began at the onset of the pandemic in 2020, according to a CNN analysis of over 40 major cities, CNN.

Gun Violence: According to the Gun Violence Archive, from January 1 to September 15, a total of 14,516 people died from gun violence in the US. That’s 1,300 more than during the same period in 2020, a 9% increase. Mass shootings are also on the rise. Through September 15, there have been 498 mass shootings across the US, or an average of about 1.92 per day. That’s 15% higher than last year, when there were a total of 611, a rate of 1.67 per day, according to data from the GVA.

Police Executive Research Forum: According to a survey of 157 police agencies by the Police Executive Research Forum, the total number of homicides increased by 12 percent in the first nine months of 2021, compared to the same period in 2020. That represented more than half the increase recorded in a similar period between 2020 and 2019. Hijackings also increased and robberies continued to decline. The Crime Report

Centers For Disease Control: CDC researchers estimated that there were over 20,000 firearm homicides and over 26,000 firearm suicides in the United States in 2021. The firearm homicide rate was 8.3% higher in 2021 than it was in 2020 per CNN.

COVID and Crime: During the first quarter of 2021, homicide rates declined from their peak in the summer of 2020, but remained above levels in the first quarter of prior years. The number of homicides rose by 24% compared to the first quarter of 2020 (an increase of 193 homicides) and by 49% compared to the first quarter of 2019 (an increase of 324 homicides).

Aggravated and gun assault rates were also higher in the first quarter of 2021 than in the same period of 2020. Aggravated assault rates increased by 7 percent, while gun assault rates went up by 22 percent, COVID and Crime.

Reuters: In the first quarter of 2021, the research showed, the murder rate had declined from a peak the previous summer but was still up 24 percent over the first quarter of 2020, Reuters.

Council on Criminal Justice: This year, the number of casualties, along with the overall number of shootings that have killed or injured at least one person, exceeds those of the first five months of 2020, which finished as the deadliest year of gun violence in at least two decades.

The number of homicides increased by 16% during the first half of 2021 – 259 more homicides – compared to the same period the year before, and by 42% – claiming an additional 548 additional lives – compared to the same time frame in 2019. The increase in homicide slowed between the first and second quarters of 2021.

The aggravated assault rate was 9% higher in the first half of 2021 than during the same period in 2020, and the gun assault rate was 5% higher in the first half of 2021 than the year before. Motor vehicle theft rates were 21% higher in the first half of 2021 than the year before.

Other major crimes declined. Robbery (-6%), residential burglary (-9%), nonresidential burglary (-9%), larceny (-6%), and drug offense (-12%) rates dropped from the same period in 2020, Council on Criminal Justice.

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FBI’s New Method Of Collecting and Reporting Crime Data-The National Incident-Based Reporting System

Note: See below for summations of FBI yearly statistics.

The FBI is now using the National Incident-Based Reporting System which is different than the previous reporting methods, see Counting Crime.

The National Incident-Based Reporting System includes multiple (up to ten) crimes connected to an incident, not just the most serious crime used in the old Summary Reporting System, thus more crime will be recorded.

Per an FBI estimate, 11 percent of all criminal episodes involved multiple offenses, a possible increase of two percent (or more) per crime measured.

The National Incident-Based Reporting System is supposed to be the only reporting system used for national crime data.

Per the FBI, data from 2022 was a mix of reports from the old and new reporting systems.

The Problem:

There is concern that the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System does not have a sufficient number of law enforcement agencies participating thus leaving some to speculate that quarterly or yearly reports may be compromised. Only 52 percent of law enforcement agencies provided yearly data for 2021.

Per the Associated Press, some law enforcement agencies failed to provide data for 2022. However a change in collection methods in compiling 2022 numbers helped, and the FBI said the new data represents 83.3% of all agencies covering 93.5% of the population. By contrast, last year’s numbers were from only 62.7% of agencies, representing 64.8% of Americans.

(Editor’s note, some law enforcement agencies submitted data in 2022 under the old summary reporting system which is a mix of two methodologies).

From Time Magazine: The following major cities did not report data to the FBI, or did not report data for the full year of 2021:

  • Bakersfield, Calif.
  • Baltimore
  • Chicago
  • Fresno, Calif.
  • Jacksonville, Fla.
  • Long Beach, Calif.
  • Los Angeles
  • Miami
  • New York City
  • Oakland, Calif.
  • Omaha, Neb.
  • Philadelphia
  • Phoenix
  • Sacramento, Calif.
  • San Francisco
  • San Jose, Calif.
  • Tucson, Ariz.
  • Washington, D.C.

Per The Marshall Project–Many Large Police Agencies Still Missing From National Crime Data For 2022.

Of the 19 biggest law enforcement agencies — each of which police more than 1 million people — seven were missing from the FBI’s 2022 crime data. The missing agencies include the LAPD, the NYPD, and police departments in Phoenix, San Jose and New York’s Suffolk County.

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A Focus On The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey

See below for summations of the National Crime Victimization Survey yearly statistics.

See Is Violence Rising Or Falling? Understanding Quirks Within The National Crime Victimization Survey for the full article addressing the complexities of National Crime Victimization Survey Data.

The vast majority of crimes are not reported to law enforcement. 42 percent of violent crimes were reported per the National Crime Victimization Survey in 2022. It’s much less for property crimes (32 percent) thus the need for a national survey to count “all” crimes.

The survey uses a methodology similar to the US Census.

The 2022 report is the 50th in a series that began in 1973 and includes statistics on nonfatal violent crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault) and property crimes (burglary or trespassing, motor vehicle theft, and other types of household theft).

The report also describes the characteristics of crimes and victims. The report does not count homicides (you can’t interview dead people).

Annual National Criminal Victimization Survey estimates are based on the number and characteristics of crimes that respondents experienced during the prior 6 months, excluding the month in which they were interviewed.

Some suggest that crimes reported to law enforcement (as compiled by the FBI) are “important” enough to call the police and that surveys count the “real” number of crimes.

People do not report crimes to the police for an endless number of reasons, one is that most violent crime happens among people who know each other.

Your drunk friend could hit you with a beer bottle (an aggravated assault) but you choose to handle it personally. But when the National Crime Victimization Survey calls and asks about recent victimizations, you tell them about the assault.

Both the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics release separate crime reports in the fall for the preceding year thus both release what is essentially old data “yet” the FBI’s crimes reported to law enforcement will get significantly more media coverage because people are more familiar with it.

It would take pages to describe the challenges both agencies are having with their crime statistics. I’ll summarize with the observation that the FBI moved to a new-comprehensive and robust reporting system but some local law enforcement agencies in 2023 haven’t completed their adoption. The FBI plans to release quarterly statistics when the number of participating agencies increases.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics is contemplating a redesign as to how they collect data through the National Crime Victimization Survey (redesign reports are available on their website).

My description here of the complexities is woefully understated, see below for more.

What’s Wrong With The National Crime Victimization Survey?

The short answer is nothing. The world of survey research is complex, even more so because of the pandemic with numerous references from major polling organizations changing survey strategies.

As stated above, the National Crime Victimization Survey is contemplating a redesign after 50 years of service.

The National Crime Victimization Survey is necessary because the vast majority of violent and property crimes are unreported to law enforcement. To gain an understanding of “all” crime, a national survey is imperative.

The National Crime Victimization Survey offers far larger numbers of crimes reported to law enforcement and national reports issued by the FBI. Generally speaking, the larger the numbers, the more accurate the results.

The National Crime Victimization Survey offers separate reports giving readers a qualitative assessment of dozens of variables about crime. Through these documents, we gain a fairly decent sense of who’s victimized, data on criminal offenders, and additional issues.

But the National Crime Victimization Survey, like all polling data, has its imperfections and disagreements with other national reports on crime. Generally speaking, all polling data was significantly affected by COVID and other national events.

There are times when other authoritative crime data indicate that crime is decreasing and the National Crime Victimization Survey states that crime is increasing.

There are times when other authoritative crime data indicates that crime is increasing while the National Crime Victimization Survey states that crime is decreasing.

No one is suggesting that the data is incorrect, just different than what’s offered from other sources.

Readers need to understand this and compare multiple sources to gain the best possible understanding of crime in the United States.

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The Rest Of This Report

The rest of this report focuses on violent crime from reputable sources and who is being impacted.

Included are reports from Gallup, the Centers For Disease Control, and additional sources, fear of crime, crimes reported to law enforcement, and reports claiming reduced crime before national elections.

Who’s Impacted By Crime? Data On Victims Of Crime And Violence

Note: I could include a new report daily as to who’s impacted but most of the data below seems representative of the victimization experience.

Pew: The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest annual mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2021, 46% of all gun deaths among children and teens involved Black victims, even though only 14% of the U.S. under-18 population that year was Black. Homicide was the largest single category of gun deaths among children and teens in 2021, accounting for 60% of the total that year, Pew 

The victims and suspects of homicides and nonfatal shootings in the District of Columbia are primarily male, Black, and between the ages of 18-34. Nearly 92 percent of victims and suspects in homicides and 88 percent of victims and suspects in nonfatal shootings were male. About 96 percent of victims and suspects in both homicides and nonfatal shootings were Black, despite Black residents comprising only 46 percent of the overall population in the District. Approximately 66 percent of homicide victims/suspects and 64 percent of nonfatal shooting victim/suspects were between the ages of 18-34, with a mean age of 29.5 and 29.8, respectively. Across homicides and shootings, both victims and suspects are demographically similar overall, DC Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.

News reports suggest that the cities where protests and or riots have occurred are being hit the hardest, Governing.Com.

It’s African American communities that are bearing the brunt of the violence, NBC News.

The highest homicide gun death rates continue to be in young Black men, at 142 per 100,000 for those in their early 20s, Associated Press. Among Black women, the rate of firearm-related homicides more than tripled since 2010, and the rate of gun-related suicides more than doubled since 2015.

The number of children shot in New York City has doubled since 2017. That year, 75 shooting victims were children. By mid-December of 2022, at least 149 children had been shot. New York Times.

The rise in violent crime across the U.S. has been concentrated in “low-income communities of color” which have disproportionately experienced the impact of school closures and reductions in basic services during the pandemic, according to a study by the University of California-Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, The Crime Report.

In certain U.S. cities, young men are over three times more likely to be shot dead than American soldiers deployed to war zones in the Middle East, new research reveals. The researchers looked at the demographics of the young men in the zip codes under investigation, they found that the risk of violent death and injury was almost entirely tied to individuals from minority racial and ethnic groups. Black and Hispanic males represented 96.2 percent of those who were fatally shot and 97.3 percent of those who experienced non-fatal gun injuries across all four cities.

There were 722 more homicides in nine U.S. cities last year, according to police data. More than 85% of the increase was in predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, The Marshall Project.

Black males were overwhelmingly the No. 1 demographic killed in most cities. In Chicago, which tallied the most homicides since 1996, 648 of the city’s 797 homicide victims were Black. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 105 of the city’s 133 homicides were Black males. In Columbus, Ohio, 135 of the city’s 204 homicides were of Black males. In Louisville, Kentucky, 133 of the city’s 197 homicide victims were Black males. In St. Paul, Minnesota, 17 of the city’s 38 homicides were of Black males. Chicago’s most vulnerable neighborhoods, ones that have borne the disproportionate brunt of gun violence throughout the city, reports the Chicago Tribune. The increases have reached a point where the homicide rate in the most violent parts of the city at the end of 2020 was higher than it was in those places in 1991, a year often considered one of the most violent years in Chicago history. In Los Angeles, 397 people were killed in 2021 — the most in a year since 2007.

Hispanic males were the top demographic killed in L.A. last year, 183 in total, in a city that has a much larger Hispanic than Black population, Fox News.

Gun violence has particularly affected young people this year. Nearly 300 children ages 11 and younger were killed, and more than 660 were injured, says the Gun Violence Archive. Among teens ages 12 to 17, more than 1,000 were killed, and nearly 3,000 were injured.

Gun homicides involving intimate partners rose 25% in 2020, compared with the previous year, to the highest level in almost three decades, newly analyzed FBI data reveals,  The Guardian.

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Violent Crime Never Increased?

It’s fair to state that some people and organizations disagree with any suggestion that violence has increased based on historical lows in crime (until 2015) and the uncertainty of COVID-crime-riots and demonstrations regarding the police use of force. Several will point to considerable decreases in violent crime during the COVID lockdowns or 2021 data from the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Surveys suggesting that violence was flat.

There are people (and organizations) who insist that crime has decreased, not increased, and that 2020-2021-2022-2023 violence in cities was overblown. Based on 2021 Bureau Of Justice Statistics or Gallup data, they have a valid point for rural and suburban areas, but not cities. Based on 2022 data from the National Crime Victimization Survey with its 44 percent increase in violent crime, the discussion is now moot.

For those looking for a more nuanced analysis, VOX offers the following: The data backs up the headlines, suggesting that homicide numbers are significantly higher in at least some major US cities. But it’s not clear if this is part of a nationwide phenomenon, or if it’s something isolated to urban centers because we don’t have good data outside the large cities. To make matters more confusing, other types of crime, including violent crime overall, appear to have decreased in many of the same cities, VOX.  Also, see FiveThirtyEight.

We Have Never Lived In Safer Times?

The pandemic, inflation, and the death of George Floyd plus the resulting riots and protests plus declining numbers of police officers per the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the US Department of Justice and issues related to the proactivity of officers (a record decrease in arrests) added to an increase in violent crime for many American cities per multiple sources and places the discussion of crime in America into a different dimension.

There are those insisting that we have never lived in safer times due to an almost continuous (and considerable) twenty-year-plus decline in crime, but that argument ended since the increases in violence began in 2015 per the National Crime Victimization Survey and the dramatic events of 2020-2023.

But most Americans remain convinced that overall crime and violence, especially in urban areas, is rising. Those fears are validated by the FBI for 2022 (most crime categories increased), Gallup, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (record increases in violence). 

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Crime Reporting To Law Enforcement

46 percent of violent victimizations were reported to police in 2021, higher than in 2020 (40%) per the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

42 percent of violent victimizations were reported in 2022 (latest data).

As stated, the fundamental reason for the National Crime Victimization Survey is an accounting of crimes reported and unreported to law enforcement.

The reporting of violent crimes to law enforcement has seen a steady drop in recent years until 2021.

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Fear of Crime-Updated

I spoke to a person regarding national crime statistics who told me that crime data was irrelevant. The most important indicator of crime in the United States was fear of crime.

Pundits will forever tell you that fear of crime is overblown. Overall crime has decreased throughout recent decades (true up to 2015) and Americans expressing fear of crime were simply misinformed or misguided by media reports.

National reports on crime are often in disagreement.  Whether crime and violence are increasing or decreasing often depends on the source you use.

Yet many feel that criticism of Americans as to how they feel about crime is insulting. Fear drives our decisions as to where to live or what businesses to support or places to invest. Concern about crime can destroy commercial establishments or sections of cities or an entire city. It has a major impact on state and national elections

The Hill

Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe crime is an “extremely” or “very” serious problem in the U.S., according to a Gallup poll .

The 63 percent rate is the highest collected by Gallup, with the previous high of 60 percent found in 2000, 2010 and 2016.

A small proportion of respondents considered crime extremely serious in their local communities — 17 percent — but more than half of them believe crime has gone up in their area.

Nationally, about three-quarters of Americans believe crime has gone up, underlining the tough-on-crime political narrative of conservative politicians.

Los Angeles Times

Only 35% of respondents in an NPR/Marist survey conducted in March said President Biden was doing a good job when it came to handling crime — a lower mark than his already low approval rating. He earned similarly poor marks from people of color and those under 45, voters he needs to motivate if he wants to win reelection.

Home Bay-Allied Van Lines

Low crime rates jumped from the second-most desirable trait in 2022 to the most desirable in 2023. Public safety has become the highest priority as violence on the news cycle convinces Americans life is becoming more dangerous. Although gun violence and motor vehicle thefts have indeed soared since the pandemic, homicides and the overall crime rate are actually falling.

In the past year, Americans have become less satisfied with where they live, according to a new survey conducted by Home Bay and Allied Van Lines. In 2023, just 63% of Americans say they like where they live, down from 80% in 2022.

CBS News

Bloomberg’s twelve years in office coincided with an urban renaissance, not just in New York, but in cities across the United States. Downtowns flourished as crime fell to its lowest rate in decades – a far cry from where many American cities find themselves today.

Rocca asked, “Compared to early 2020, before the pandemic, most American cities by most measures are still worse off,” Rocca said. “What is the number one thing that has to happen for cities, in general, in the U.S. to turn it around?”

“Well, the first thing, you got to stop crime and get guns off the streets,” Bloomberg replied. “There’s no secrets here to this stuff. All these problems are problems that we know how to solve, but you got to have the desire to do so.”

Bloomberg

This line of argument was a particularly vivid example of a familiar trope in US transportation discussions: the crime train. The underlying narrative? Rail-based public transit originating in cities will undoubtedly export urban ills to adjoining regions. It’s a variant of the broader unease with US public transportation itself, and its perceived associations with poverty and dysfunction. But crime train adherents are particularly fixated on the mode in question and the notion that rail transit is both risky for riders and an effective means of shuttling lawbreakers around.

The Stranger

At the end of January, Capitol Hill vegan restaurant Life on Mars started cataloging on Instagram the woes of existing as a small business in Seattle. A random passerby had thrown a rock through their window. Someone lit a fire on their patio. Someone else threw a rock through the restaurant’s door. There was graffiti, drug use, and even stolen plants.

“We have to consider what we are even doing here anymore,” the restaurant posted on Jan 25. “Good times.”

The Rasmussen Reports group showed that 61% of their respondents believe that violent crime in America is getting worse. And polling by Gallup showed that violent crime is a concern among 80% of Americans, including 53% who worry a “great deal” and 27% who are concerned to a “fair” degree. The Rasmussen survey was released on April 8, 2022, the Gallup poll was made public on April 7.

National and local perceptions/fear about crime are at or near their peak levels for the past 25 years. Americans are more likely to perceive crime in the U.S. as having increased over the prior year than they have been at any point since 1993, Gallup.

Most Americans are impacted by street or computer crimes yearly. Fifty-one percent, up from 38% in 2020, say there is more crime in their area than a year ago, Gallup.

Crime is a national concern, Pew. The economy, health care, and COVID led the categories.

Americans’ concerns over crime have hit a four-year high, according to a Washington Post- ABC News pollFifty-nine percent of respondents said that crime is an “extremely” or “very serious” problem in the U.S., the highest level since 2017. On a local level, worries about crime are also growing, though lower than the national concern, The Hill (Newspaper Of Congress).

Americans are more likely to perceive crime in the U.S. as having increased over the prior year (78%) than they have been at any point since 1993, Gallup.

Gallup presents a multi-year overview of perceptions of crime, see Gallup.

After the riots and protests of 2020, a majority of Americans say they are concerned about rising crime in U.S. cities, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill. Seventy-seven percent of respondents say they are concerned that crime is rising in the nation’s cities, while 46 percent of respondents said they were concerned about rising crime in their own communities, The Hill.

Mass Shootings: In the wake of two August mass shootings that claimed the lives of 31 people in one weekend, Americans are more worried about themselves or a family member being the victim of a mass shooting than they were after two previous massacres. Currently, 48% of U.S. adults are “very” or “somewhat” worried, compared with 39% in 2017 after one gunman killed 58 people in Las Vegas and 38% in 2015 after a San Bernardino shooter left 14 dead, Gallup.

Worry About Crime: 75 percent of Americans worry about crime and violence (April 2019), Gallup.

Fear of crime was the top national concern in 2018. Per Gallup, 75 percent of Americans worry about crime and violence (down from 78 percent in March 2018), which was the same as health care, the top concern, Fear of Crime. Gallup asked those polled if they worried about topics a great deal or a fair amount. Crime was ranked the same as health care using a combined score.

Half of Americans believe crime is very or extremely serious. In 2018, just under half (49%) of Americans believe the problem of crime in the United States is very or extremely serious — a 10-percentage-point drop and the first time the number has been below 50% since 2005, Serious Crime Concerns.

88 Percent Say Violent Crime Is A Problem: Per Pew, 54 percent say that violent crime is a very big problem while 34 percent say it’s a moderately big problem. Pew.

Crime A National Concern: As crime rates continue to soar across the country, a new Fox Business survey finds almost 8 in 10 registered voters  (77 percent) are “extremely” or “very” concerned about the surge. The only issue more pressing is inflation (84 percent “extremely” or “very” concerned), Fox Business.

Fear Of Crime Among Groups

42% Of Black Adults Say Crime Is A Major Problem. Some 43% of urban residents now say crime is a major problem in their community, compared with 35% in 2018. Needless to say, Pew addressed “major” problems. If we included “problems” with crime and violence, the percentage would be much higher, Pew.

Latinos say crime and gun violence is their number two concern — behind COVID-19 and before immigration, social justice or voting rights — in our inaugural Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll in partnership with Noticias Telemundo, Axios

About eight in ten Asian Americans say violence against them is increasing in the U.S., an April survey found.

Crime As A National Priority Among Voters

There is a multitude of national polls stating that crime and violence are top concerns for voters in 2022. See Pew for an example.

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Identity Theft-Fraud-Cyber Crime

23 Million Americans Are Victims Of Identity Theft Costing Over 15 Billion Dollars, 2022, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Per Gallup, (2016) beyond the 29 percent of households victimized by violent and property crimes, 27 percent of households had their credit card stolen by hackers and 17 percent of households were victims of identity theft.

Gallup refers to these figures as a direct experience with crime.

Per Gallup (2021) beyond the 23 percent of households victimized by violent and property crimes, 28 percent of households had their credit card stolen by hackers and 17 percent were victims of identity theft.

Claimed Pre-2022 National Election Decreases in Violent Crime From The FBI

Yes, violent crime decreased by a marginal amount in 2022 but most of the FBI crime categories increased, not decreased.

Claimed Pre-2022 National Election Decreases in Violent Crime From The National Crime Victimization Survey

The National Crime Victimization Survey clearly articulated big increases for groups “but” they never acknowledged that violence increased by 44 percent. That finding came from independent analysts. 

Claimed Pre-2020 National Election Decreases In Violent Crime From The FBI And The National Crime Victimization Survey

Both the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics released data before the presidential election in 2020 indicating that violence decreased. Both clarified via emails that there were definitional issues and that violence did not decrease.

Both claimed decreases in crime via their latest reports in the fall of 2020, the FBI for the first six months of 2020 via their September 15, 2020 press release, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics for all of 2019 via their September 14, 2020 press release.

Clarifications via email from both agencies suggest that violent crime was essentially flat for 2019 (National Crime Victimization Survey) and for the first six months of 2020 via the FBI.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics claims decreases in violence for 2019 via Criminal Victimization 2020.

Claimed Pre-2021 Midterm National Election Decreases In Violent Crime From BJS

The Bureau of Justice Statistics press release “and” summation report “and” the full report in late September of 2022 start off with “from 1993 to 2021, the rate of violent victimization declined from 79.8 to 16.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older.”

While statistically correct, people want to know what’s happening now (or in recent years) considering that crime issues are constantly in the news (i.e., a 50 percent increase in homicides and a roughly 36% increase in aggravated assaults from 2019-2022). Data from BJS for 2021 indicated that violence (and serious violence) in urban areas increased in 2021 and should have been the lead.

But both the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey suggest that violent crime was flat in 2021 when many additional sources insist that violence increased considerably for 2021.

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2017 DOJ Report-Repeat Victimization 50 Percent of All Violent Victimization

From 2005 to 2014, an average of 3.2 million persons age 12 or older experienced one or more nonfatal violent victimizations each year per the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

About 1 in 5 of these victims (19 percent) experienced repeat victimization, defined as two or more violent victimizations during the year.

Repeat victims accounted for a disproportionate percentage of all violent victimizations that occurred each year.

In 2014, the 19 percent of violent crime victims who experienced repeat victimization accounted for 50 percent of all violent victimizations, Bureau Of Justice Statistics.

See More

See more articles on crime and justice at Crime in America.

Links to FBI, National Crime Survey, and Gallup data are below.

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FBI and National Crime Victimization Survey Data Plus Links

Subcategories

Brief Summation-FBI

Brief Summation-National Crime Victimization Survey

FBI-Crimes Reported to Police-Extended Summary of Recent Years

National Crime Victimization Survey-Extended Summary of Recent Years

Links For The Latest Data Involving Crimes Reported To Law Enforcement Agencies (through the FBI) Includes FBI  Press Releases

 Links For The Latest Data From The National Crime Victimization Survey

Brief Summation-FBI-Crimes Reported To Law Enforcement

  • 2022-Updated The FBI offers 12 categories of crimes (13 including hate crimes). Four categories decreased, six categories increased and one (burglary) was flat. Hate crimes increased. The FBI’s crime statistics estimates for 2022 show that national violent crime decreased an estimated 1.7% in 2022 compared to 2021 estimates. Murder decreased 6.1%
  • 2021-Homicides increased 4.3 percent in 2021. Rapes also increased. Overall violence in the nation was flat.
  • 2020-The number of homicides increased by nearly 30% from 2019. In 2020, violent crime was up 5.6 percent.
  • 2019-Violent crime was flat ( decreased 0.5 percent) for 2019.
  • 2018-Violent crime decreased by 3.3 percent for 2018.
  • 2017-Violent crimes decreased by 0.2 percent in 2017.
  • 2016-Violent crime increased in 2016.
  • 2015-Violent crime increased in 2015.
  • 2013-2014-Violent crime decreased in 2013 and 2014.
  • 2012-Lowest murder rate since 1960 but violent crime increased in 2012.

Brief Summation-National Crime Victimization Survey:

  • Updated 2022-A 44 percent increase in violent crime per researchers. The violent victimization rate increased from 16.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2021 to 23.5 per 1,000 in 2022. The rate of property victimization in 2022 was 101.9 victimizations per 1,000 households, higher than the rate in 2021 (90.3 per 1,000).
  • 2021-The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) states that the violent victimization rate increased from 19.0 to 24.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in urban areas while remaining unchanged in suburban or rural areas. The rate of serious violent victimization in urban areas also increased. Overall violence for the nation was flat.
  • 2020-The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) states that the violent victimization rate dropped 22 percent in 2020.
  • 2019- There was no statistically significant change in number or rate of total violent victimizations from 2018 to 2019 including simple assault. The National Crime Victimization Survey states the rate of violent crime excluding simple assault declined 15% for 2019. However, new data from Criminal Victimization-2020 indicates that the numbers and rates for violent crime decreased in 2019, contradicting what they previously said.
  • 2018-Violent Crime: From 2015 to 2018, the total number of violent victimizations increased by 28%. The rate of total violent victimizations also increased. The number of violent incidents increased from 5.2 million in 2017 to 6.0 million in 2018. Serious violent crime increases. Property crime continues to decrease.
  • 2017-For the second straight year, the number of victims of violent crime was higher than in 2015. Most of the sixteen categories of violent crime rates increased from 2015 to 2017. Some were flat. Three decreased. Property crime decreased.
  • 2016-Categories of violent crime increased. Property crime increased for the first time since 2013. There was no statistically significant change in the rate of overall violent crime from 2015, yet the rate increased (18.6 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older) to 2016 (19.7 per 1,000).
  • 2015-Violent crime flat, property crime decreased
  • 2014-Violent and property crime declined
  • 2013-Violent and property crime declined
  • 2011-2012-The violent crime rate had declined for nearly two decades before increasing in 2011 and 2012

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FBI-Crimes Reported to Police-Extended Summary of Recent Years

Updated 2022: The FBI offers 12 categories of crimes (13 including hate crimes). Four categories decreased, six categories increased and one (burglary) was flat. Hate crimes increased. The FBI’s crime statistics estimates for 2022 show that national violent crime decreased an estimated 1.7% in 2022 compared to 2021 estimates. Murder and non-negligent manslaughter recorded a 2022 estimated nationwide decrease of 6.1% compared to the previous year. In 2022, the estimated number of offenses in the revised rape category saw an estimated 5.4% decrease. Aggravated assault in 2022 decreased an estimated 1.1% in 2022. Robbery showed an estimated increase of 1.3% nationally. The property crime rate increased considerably for the first time since 2012. The rate of arson increased considerably. The rate for burglaries was flat. The rate for larcenies-thefts increased The rate of motor vehicle thefts increased considerably. The FBI reported a 6.9% increase in hate crimes from 2021 to 2022 and a rise in law enforcement participating in reporting, Axios. Associated Press-The Estimated Number Of juvenile Victims Of Fatal Gun Violence Rose 11.8 Percent

2021: Based on 52 percent of law enforcement agencies providing a full year of data for the FBI’s new National Incident-Based Reporting System, overall, the analysis shows violent and property crimes remained consistent between 2020 and 2021. While the aggregate estimated violent crime volume decreased 1% for the nation from 1,326,600 in 2020 to 1,313,200 in 2021, the estimated number of murders increased from 22,000 in 2020 to 22,900 in 2021. The increase in murders constitutes a 4.3% increase. The robbery rate decreased 8.9% from 2020 to 2021, which heavily contributed to the decrease in overall violent crime despite increases in murder and rape rates at the national level.

2020: Per FBI final statistics released in September 2021, the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, a total not seen since the mid-1990s.In 2020, violent crime was up 5.6 percent from the 2019 number. The estimated number of aggravated assault offenses rose 12.1 percent, and the volume of murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses increased 29.4 percent. The estimated number of robbery offenses fell 9.3 percent and the estimated volume of rape (revised definition) offenses decreased 12.0 percent. Property crimes continued to decrease. Motor vehicle thefts rose 11.8 percent.

2019: For all of 2019, violent crime was flat (-0.5 percent) and property crime was down 4.1 percent. The violent crime rate was down 1.0 percent and the property crime rate was down 4.5 percent. Aggravated assaults (the vast majority of reported violent crimes) were up 1.3 percent. Homicides were flat-up 0.3 percent.

2018: Violent crime declined 3.3 percent between 2017 and 2018. Property crime decreased 6.3 percent during the same time period

2017: After two consecutive years of increases, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation decreased by 0.2 percent in 2017 when compared with 2016 data, according to FBI figures. Property crimes dropped 3.0 percent, marking the 15th consecutive year the collective estimates for these offenses declined.

2016: For all of 2016, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation increased for the second straight year, rising 4.1 percent in 2016 when compared with 2015 data, according to FBI figures. Property crimes dropped 1.3 percent, marking the 14th consecutive year the collective estimates for these offenses declined.

In 2016, there were an estimated 1,248,185 violent crimes. Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses increased by 8.6 percent when compared with estimates from 2015. Aggravated assault and rape (legacy definition) offenses increased 5.1 percent and 4.9 percent, respectively, and robbery increased 1.2 percent.

2015: After two years of decline (reported crime was mostly flat in 2014 with a slight decrease), the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation increased 3.9 percent in 2015 when compared with 2014 data, according to FBI figures. Property crimes dropped 2.6 percent, marking the thirteenth straight year the collective estimates for these offenses declined.

In 2015, there were an estimated 1,197,704 violent crimes. Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter increased 10.8 percent when compared with estimates from 2014. Rape (legacy definition) and aggravated assault increased 6.3 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively, while robbery increased 1.4 percent.

2014: The FBI reports preliminary figures indicating that law enforcement agencies throughout the nation showed an overall decrease of 4.6 percent in the number of violent crimes for the first 6 months of 2014 when compared with figures reported for the same time in 2013. The violent crime category includes murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The number of property crimes in the United States from January to June of 2014 decreased by 7.5 percent when compared with data for the same time period in 2013.

However, when the FBI released its full report for 2014, the estimated number of violent crimes in the nation decreased by 0.2 percent in 2014 when compared with 2013 data. Aggravated assaults and rapes increased. Property crimes decreased by 4.3 percent, marking the 12th straight year the collective estimates for these offenses declined. Based on the full report in 2014, and with endless news reports documenting increases in homicide and violence in cities throughout the country, we predicted an increase in violent crime for 2015. See Crime in America.

2013: Per the FBI, the estimated number of violent crimes in 2013 decreased by 4.4 percent when compared with 2012 figures, and the estimated number of property crimes decreased by 4.1 percent. There were an estimated 1,163,146 violent crimes reported to law enforcement last year, along with an estimated 8,632,512 property crimes. Property crimes decreased 4.1 percent in 2013, marking the 11th straight year the collective estimates for these offenses declined.

2012: The FBI estimated that in 2012 the number of violent crimes increased by 0.7 percent. However, property crimes decreased 0.9 percent, marking the tenth straight year of declines for these offenses, collectively.

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National Crime Victimization Survey-Extended Summary of Recent Years 

Updated 2022:The violent victimization rate increased from 16.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2021 to 23.5 per 1,000 in 2022. There were 6.6 million violent victimizations of persons age 12 or older in the United States in 2022, up from 4.6 million in 2021. Many groups (see below) had very large percentage increases in violent victimization. Households in the United States experienced 13.4 million property victimizations in 2022, up from 11.7 million in 2021. The rate of property victimization in 2022 was 101.9 victimizations per 1,000 households, higher than the rate in 2021 (90.3 per 1,000). In 2022, about 2 in 5 (42%) violent victimizations were reported to police. Motor vehicle theft victimization increased from a rate of 4.3 victimizations per 1,000 households in 2021 to 5.5 per 1,000 in 2022. About 10% of violent victimizations involved a firearm in 2022, an increase from 2021 (7%). In 2022, about 1.24% (3.5 million) of persons age 12 or older nationwide experienced at least one violent crime.

2021: From 2020 to 2021, the violent victimization rate increased from 19.0 to 24.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons in urban areas while remaining unchanged in suburban or rural areas. The rate of serious (excluding common assaults) violent victimization in urban areas increased. The overall violent victimization rate did not change between 2020 and 2021. In 2021, about 0.98% (2.7 million) of persons age 12 or older nationwide experienced at least one violent crime. About 6.25% (8.1 million) of households in the country experienced one or more property victimizations (burglary or trespassing, motor vehicle theft, or other household theft). The rate of property victimization in 2021 was 90.3 victimizations per 1,000 households, which was not statistically different from the 2020 rate.

2020: The violent victimization rate dropped 22 percent in 2020. This is the largest decrease in violence ever reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The violent victimization rate declined from 21.0 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older in 2019 to 16.4 per 1,000 in 2020. The number of violent crimes, excluding simple assault, fell from 2.0 million in 2019 to 1.6 million in 2020.

2019: There was no statistically significant change in number or rate of total violent victimization from 2018 to 2019 including simple assault. The National Crime Victimization Survey states the rate of violent crime excluding simple assault declined 15% for 2019. However, new data from Criminal Victimization-2020 indicates that the numbers and rates for violent crime decreased in 2019, contradicting what they previously said.

2018: Violent Crime: From 2015 to 2018, the total number of violent victimizations increased by 28%. The rate of total violent victimizations also increased. The number of violent incidents increased from 5.2 million in 2017 to 6.0 million in 2018. Property crime continues to decrease. Serious violent crime increased.

2017: For the National Crime Survey (released in December of 2018) most of the sixteen categories of violent crime rates increased from 2015 to 2017. Some were flat. Three decreased. There was no statistically significant increase from 2016 to 2017 in the number of residents who had been victims of violent crime, while there was a statistically significant increase from 2015 to 2017. For the second straight year, the number of victims of violent crime was higher than in 2015. The number of persons age 12 or older who had been victims of violent crime rose from 2.7 million in 2015 to 2.9 million in 2016 (up 9 percent from 2015) and 3.1 million in 2017 (up 17 percent from 2015). The 2-year increase in the number of violent-crime victims was 455,700.

2016: Based on revised estimates (released on October 18, 2018) from the National Crime Victimization Survey, from 2015 to 2016, violent criminal victimizations increased for a variety of categories. Property crime increased for the first time since 2013. The revised estimates replace previously released 2016 estimates that did not permit year-to-year comparisons. From 2015 to 2016, the number of persons experiencing one or more violent victimizations increased from 2.7 million to 2.9 million. From 2015 to 2016, the number of violent crimes increased from 5,006,620 to 5,353,820. There was no statistically significant change in the rate of overall violent crime from 2015, yet the rate increased (18.6 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older) to 2016 (19.7 per 1,000).

2015: there was no statistically significant change in the overall rate of violent crime, per the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The rate of violent victimization was 18.6 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older in 2015.

2014: Violent crime rates decreased from 2013 (23.2 victimizations per 1,000) to 20.1 per 1,000 in 2014. The overall property crime rate (which includes household burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft) decreased from 131.4 victimizations per 1,000 households in 2013 to 118.1 victimizations per 1,000 in 2014.

In 2013: The overall violent crime rate declined slightly from 26.1 to 23.2 victimizations per 1,000 U.S. residents from 2012 to 2013, per the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The violent crime rate had declined for nearly two decades before increasing in 2011 and 2012. The overall property crime rate, which includes burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft, also decreased after two consecutive years of increases. From 2012 to 2013, the rate declined from 155.8 to 131.4 victimizations per 1,000 U.S. households.

In 2012: For the second consecutive year, violent and property crime rates increased. The overall violent crime rate (which includes rape or sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault) rose from 22.6 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2011 to 26.1 in 2012

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Links For The Latest Data Involving Crimes Reported To Law Enforcement Agencies (through the FBI) Includes FBI  Press Releases

Note: Crime data from the FBI is now located in their new National Crime Data Explorer.

Links For The Latest Data From The National Crime Victimization Survey

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Gallup Data On Crime

There are three traditional sources for violence and crime in the U.S., the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, The Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Survey, and Gallup. See the “Fear of Crime” section for this article for more from Gallup.

There are endless additional sources on crime (Pew, the CDC, the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, private research firms, and others) that are used throughout this report but our focus is on the reports most refer to when discussing crime.

Per Gallup (October 2021), There is a big increase in the criminal victimization of urban households in 2021, 30 percent compared to 22 percent in 2020. Seven percent of urban residents were violently victimized compared to 3% of U.S. adults. The majority of Americans live in urban areas. The collective data (urban crime victimization-computer crime) indicates a growing crime problem for at least half of American households, Gallup.

Per Gallup (February 2020), “Each year since 2017, 15% of U.S. adults have indicated they were victimized by crime in the past year. A subset of that, between 1% and 3%, have reported being the victim of a violent crime.” One percent of Americans were victimized by violent crime in 2016. That tripled to three percent in 2019. 2019 is the first year where violent crime reached three percent, Gallup.

Per Gallup (November 2016) Americans’ direct experience with crime is at a 16-year high, consistent with a gradual increase — from 22% in 2001 to 29% today — in the percentage saying that they or a household member was the victim of a robbery, vandalism or violent crime in the past yearsee Gallup-Crime.

Per Gallup-Household crime was at its highest point since 2001.

Gallup offered their November 2017 report which addressed personal and household crime, Asked about their own experiences rather than the situation for their household as a whole, 15% of U.S. adults say they have been the victim of at least one of the crimes studied.

For personal crime, that is an insignificant drop of one percentage point from last year’s 16%.

Twenty-two percent of Americans say a conventional crime was committed against their household in the previous 12 months, the lowest proportion since 2001, see Gallup-Crime-2017.

So within two years, we have both the highest and lowest measures of household crime but an insignificant drop in personal crime.

Are most Americans victimized by crime yearly? Per Gallup, (2016) beyond the 29 percent of households victimized by violent and property crimes, 27 percent of households had their credit card stolen by hackers and 17 percent of households were victims of identity theft.

Gallup refers to these figures as a direct experience with crime.

Per Gallup (2021) beyond the 23 percent of households victimized by violent and property crimes, 28 percent of households had their credit card stolen by hackers and 17 percent were victims of identity theft.

Suppose you combine violent and property crime with cybercrime and identity theft (via the new numbers from The Bureau of Justice Statistics). In that case, most Americans may be victimized by crime every year which may partially explain why we are at record levels of fear of crime.  Note that repeat victimizations need to be considered when considering that possibility.

Gallup also states that in 2023, 52 percent of American Households have firearms.

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Three National Measures of Violence-The FBI, the National Crime Victimization Survey And Gallup

The average person simply wants to know if crime went up or down, but the answer is confusing due to two measures used (victimization surveys via the National Crime Victimization Survey) and crimes reported to police via the Uniform Crime Report-National Incident-Based Reporting System from the FBI). A variety of data is presented above for your consideration.

Both the National Crime Victimization Survey and the Uniform Crime Report are products of two agencies within the US Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The two measures are partially explained below.

There are an endless number of violent crimes that are not reported, 42 percent in 2022,  (thus the need for the National Crime Victimization Survey) because participants see the event as a private matter, or not serious enough to report to the police. For example, a friend could hit you with a beer bottle (a violent crime involving a weapon) but you have no intention of reporting it to law enforcement. But if you were contacted by the National Crime Victimization Survey, they will ask if you were the victim of an act of violence or if anyone used a weapon or object to attack you.

Most violent and property crimes are not reported to the police, thus the majority of violent and property crime victims do not want police involvement, or do not see it as being in their best interest to report the incident, or do not believe that law enforcement can do anything about the incident, or are too afraid to report.

Some simplify the two measures by suggesting that crimes reported to law enforcement through the FBI are a measure of events crime victims deem serious (serious enough to report) versus a measure of all crime (regardless of significance) through the National Crime Victimization Survey.

There is, however, a third source for crime information from Gallup accessing individuals, households, and fear of crime.  However, most crime discussions focus on the two reports from the Department of Justice.

Note that the FBI is transitioning from the Uniform Crime Reports to the National Incident-Based Reporting System which will provide more detail and higher quality information on criminal activity in the United States. The NIBRS is slated to replace the traditional Uniform Crime Reports. Currently, they are having problems with the number of law enforcement agencies reporting their data in a new format.

See Violence Increases-National Incident-Based Reporting System for additional information.

See The Office Of Justice Programs for an official overview of the topics addressed above.

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517 Replies to “Violent and Property Crime Rates In The U.S.”

  1. im doing a research paper over crime rates and if you have any information on anything that may help me plz message me

    1. Please look at the categories at the top of the site for “crime in the US.”
      Thanks, Adam.

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