Meg Anderson

More crime leads to more crime and less leads to less.

Meg Anderson, NPR News.

Part of the reason why murders are way down is sort of a like what goes up must come down situation.

The huge decreases we're seeing now were preceded by huge increases.

So in 2020, 2021, homicide rates surged across the country at historic rates.

And it's rarely just one thing that causes crime to rise or fall.

But the pandemic was a huge destabilizing event in the world and obviously also in the country.

It's from this firm, A.H.

Datalytics.

They use data from nearly 600 jurisdictions around the country.

Crime is down.

by a lot in pretty much every category, according to them.

So murders are down by around 20% this year.

Violent crime in general, things like rape, robbery, aggravated assault are also down.

And property crimes are down too, including burglaries and motor vehicle theft.

And these crime declines happen pretty much everywhere, right?

The Midwest, the South, the Northeast, the West.

One analyst told me it's the most promising drop he's seen in nearly 30 years.

A little under half of the Americans surveyed said crime is a very serious problem in the country.

That's the lowest level it's been since 2018.