Dr John Lott, The president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of “Gun Control Myths” says, “Almost 80 percent of Americans, and 92 percent of Republicans, think crime has gone up, It actually fell in 2023.” Yes, murder fell in 2023, but still higher than in 2018 and 2019. The media might make a big deal about the historically large drop in murder from 2022 to 2023, but they fail to mention that comes after the even bigger historically large increase that occurred between 2019 and 2020. Indeed, the murder rate is still higher than it was in 2019. When asked it crime has gone up, the question is relative to when. The 2023 murder rate using the data for the first three quarters of 2023 is 4.1% higher than in 2019, the year immediately before the pandemic. A 4.1 percent increase might not be a lot, but it is still an increase.
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