Murder Skyrockets in the USA
According to Jeff Asher, a former CIA officer, and the co-founder of AH Datalytics, murder is skyrocketing here in the United States.
Check the statistics Asher has accumulated and published in the series of tweets below and then share your thoughts in the comment section on this page. What do you believe is the reason for the sudden jump in murder cases in the United States?
Final national murder update of 2020:
Murder up 36.7% in 57 agencies with data through at least September (though most have data through November). Murder up in 51 of 57, 37 of 58 agencies reporting murder up more than 30%.
Spreadsheet here: https://t.co/vEhKHuFNrY pic.twitter.com/5HgVmwGmDS
— Jeff Asher (@Crimealytics) December 29, 2020
The largest national % increase ever reported (data since 1960) was 12.7% in 1968 and the largest # increase was 1,938 in 1990. A 15% increase this year (and I think it’ll be much larger) would mean 2,400 more murders & be the worst one year increase in murder ever recorded.
— Jeff Asher (@Crimealytics) December 29, 2020
Finally, this is what the national murder rate trend looks like with a 20 or 25% increase in 2020.
Roughly where it was in the late 1990s, down 35-40% from where it was in 1993. pic.twitter.com/Rqbm7uZSup
— Jeff Asher (@Crimealytics) December 29, 2020
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