President Joe Biden tore into his expected 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump, after Trump addressed the Natio
President Joe Biden delivers a speech during a commemorative ceremony to mark D-Day 80th anniversary on June 6, 2024 in Colleville-sur-Mer, France. The number of murders in the U.S. rose by 5,795 from 2019 to 2020, when Donald Trump was president. That’s the largest one-year increase since such data began being systematically recorded in the early 1960s.
In any previous year going back to 1961, the number had never increased by more than 2,000 in a year. So, 2020’s increase was nearly triple the previous record. Also, crime statistics experts told PolitiFact that the FBI’s 2021 data tracks other crime data studies that didn’t change their methodology that year. The only year for which FBI data was affected was for 2021.Resting blame for the 2020 murder rise solely on Trump ignores how unusual life was in the United States in 2020.the unprecedented swiftness and severity of the coronavirus pandemic, which hit the U.S. in March 2020.
Murders dropped by 1,380 from 2021 to 2022, but they remained higher than before the pandemic. Only with the unofficial, projected declines in 2023 and 2024 is the annual number of murders poised to return to its prepandemic level.
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