Murder charges drop for third 12 months in a row as Trump complains nation is ‘breaking down’ | EUROtoday

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The variety of murders is anticipated to drop for the third 12 months in a row — regardless of President-elect Donald Trump railing that the nation is affected by excessive crime charges.

Although Trump declared in a Truth Social put up Thursday that the U.S. is “breaking down” with violence, blaming the present administration’s “open borders,” knowledge reveals that charges of violent crime and homicide truly plummeted in 2024.

Data from the Real-Time Crime Index from January by October 2024, collected from over 300 regulation enforcement companies throughout the nation, reveals that homicide charges have dropped by practically 16 p.c from 2023 and by practically 25 p.c from 2022 in the identical intervals. Overall violent crime additionally dropped by 3.3 p.c in 2024 from 2023, in accordance with the index.

Although there may be nonetheless extra knowledge from the tip of the 12 months to be accounted for, consultants predict that these traits will persist.

“Considering where we were just three or four years ago (soon after Trump’s stint in the White House), we’re basically looking at 5,000 fewer murder victims than in 2020, 2021 and 2022 having occurred in 2024,” Jeff Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics and a former crime analyst for the CIA and the New Orleans Police Department, instructed ABC News.

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This constructive information comes amid a string of current high-profile homicide instances, together with the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York City, the lady fatally set ablaze on the subway, and the driving force who fatally plowed right into a New Orleans crowd on New Year’s Day.

In the wake of the New Orleans assault, which left 14 useless and dozens of others injured, many on-line — and even Fox News — speculated that the suspect was a migrant, however the FBI recognized the driving force as Shamsud Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas.

Still, the president-elect linked the mass homicide to immigration. On Wednesday within the hours after the assault, Trump wrote on Truth Social: “When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before.”

On Thursday, he additionally blamed immigration when claiming the nation is “breaking down.”

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“Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World! This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership,” the 78-year-old Republican wrote. “The USA is breaking down – A violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation.”

Jabbar was killed after exchanging gunfire with police, the FBI have mentioned. The federal company is investigating the incident as an “act of terrorism” and famous that the suspect had been carrying an ISIS flag.

Trump alluded to those particulars in a separate put up on Thursday, as soon as once more inserting blame the Biden administration’s immigration insurance policies. Throughout his 2024 marketing campaign, Trump has made unsubstantiated claims in regards to the nation’s crime fee, at one level claiming that the “crime wave” occurring at ranges “nobody has ever seen before,” which isn’t supported by knowledge.

He wrote: “With the Biden ‘Open Border’s Policy’ I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe. That time has come, only worse than ever imagined.”

Statistics present that immigrant crime charges are constantly decrease than these of American residents.