#Crime spiked in 2020 under Trump.
The number of murders in the #UnitedStates jumped by nearly 30% in 2020, the largest single-yr increase ever recorded in the country, acc/to ofcl FBI stats.
The data shows 21,570 homicides in the US in 2020, which is a staggering 4,901 more than in 2019. The increase was the largest since national records began being kept in 1960s.
The quarterly report released Tues is based on data sent to the FBI from about 80% of the #law enforcement agencies in the country. Final detailed data for 2023 is expected to be released in the fall.
“Today, #immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than all US-born men, and 30% less likely to be incarcerated relative to white US-born men.”
@Nonilex Of course, the MAGA responses to that would be (a) everybody knows the National Bureau of Whatever is a front for the Biden crime family, so of course they're lying, (b) that's because law enforcement ignores crime by immigrants and goes after white US-born men because they're all run by woke politicians, and (c) that's because immigrant criminals are sneaky and devious and learned how to not get caught from criminal masterminds back in their home countries. There's no point trying to persuade these people with facts (not, I realize, that that's what you were trying to do).
There is also state level research, that shows similar results: researchers at the #CATOInstitute, a #CONSERVATIVE#LIBERTARIAN think tank, looked into #Texas in 2019. They found that undocumented #immigrants were 37.1% less likely to be convicted of a #crime.
More recently from #conservative#CATO institute:
‘#LakenRiley’s Death Made the #News but Here’s the Real Story on #Undocumented#Migrants’
“Undocumented migrants are about 26% LESS likely to be convicted of homicide than native‐born #Americans. Punish actual criminals & stop blaming illegal #immigration.”
By Alex Nowrasteh; Mar 19, 2024
From Stanford’s Institute for #Economic Policy Research (SIEPR); #Politics & #Media, Research.
Ran Abramitzky & co-authors uncovered the most extensive evidence to date that #immigrants are less likely to be imprisoned than #UnitedStates -born individuals.
‘The mythical tie between immigration & #crime’
Much of the data focuses on incarceration rates because that's where [#immigration status is recorded.]
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