2020 saw a nearly 30% rise in murder, with more than 21,500 cases reported in the year, according to FBI report.
Murders rose by nearly 30 percent in 2020, with more than 21,500 reported last year, according to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report.
"That's an unprecedented one-year rise," said Richard Rosenfeld, a criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.Frank Franklin II / AP file There were 243,600 robberies reported last year, or 73.9 per 100,000 people, as the number continued to decline from 2016, according to FBI data. The majority of such reports, which decreased from 268,483 in 2019, involved crimes along streets and highways. Others took place at gas stations, convenience stores, banks and homes.
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