The first three months of 2024 saw a continued drop in levels of violent crime and murder across the country, according to data released by the FBI on Monday – a trend that Attorney General Merrick Garland called “historic.”
Reported incidents of violent crime dropped 15% between January and March of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Data.
Murders dropped by more than 26% in the same time period, the data shows.
The FBI has not released details about the number of incidents for the categories of crime. It will do so when 80% participation levels are met, the agency said.
Is this more confirmation of the Lead Crime Hypothesis? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis)
Imagine how much crime would drop if we had basic housing and income for everyone!
Turns out we already have some clear data, and don’t need to speculate.
What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money? https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/universal-basic-income/
City-funded housing repairs in low-income neighborhoods associated with drop in crime https://phys.org/news/2021-07-city-funded-housing-low-income-neighborhoods-crime.pdf
The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/upshot/the-unsung-role-that-ordinary-citizens-played-in-the-great-crime-decline.html
VERIFY: Does affordable housing bring more crime? (note, the answer as usual is no.) https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/verify/verify-does-affordable-housing-bring-more-crime/93-560002876
Places across the U.S. are testing no-strings cash as part of the social safety net https://www.npr.org/2024/03/05/1233440910/cash-aid-guaranteed-basic-income-social-safety-net-poverty
Sweet I’ve seen a few of those! I was hoping someone had them on hand =)
Thanks for sharing man!
I was curious,too. So I put a more or less direct quote of your question in DDG. :-D
Thanks! <3