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New Crime Data Shows Trump Was Right — Sort Of
We’ve known for a while that the U.S. murder rate had likely risen in 2015, and we’ve known for two weeks that the FBI would publish its official 2015 crime stats, including the number of murders, on the same day as the first presidential debate. And the magnitude of the increase — 11 percent — isn’t a big surprise. Nonetheless, the biggest rise in murders in a quarter-century is very bad news for the country and very relevant to the election. It also could find a place in two of the debate’s three overly broad themes: “America’s Direction” and “Securing America.”
The rise in murders also bolsters Trump’s argument that the country has gotten more dangerous under Obama’s watch. In speeches, Trump regularly cites the rise in murders — or violent crime — in the nation’s biggest cities. He mentions the figure while arguing for tougher policing, including wider use of stop-and-frisk, a largely abandoned practice that many departments used disproportionately with black people and that rarely uncovered any crime.
But as Jeff Asher wrote today for FiveThirtyEight, the murder rate in 2015 was rising from an all-time low the year before. And it remains well below its peak in the 1980s. Also, the rise in other violent crime last year was more modest than the rise in murder. The rate of increase of murder, and the cause behind it, also varies widely by city — suggesting that the path to addressing it might not run through the White House, but through dozens of City Halls.
Alhoewel dit beter kan in het normale amerikaanse politiek topic. Zet ik hem zo wel in.