Based on the most recent National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the Census Bureau, violent crime in cities across the United States rose by 40% from 2019 to 2023. This was during the Biden-Harris administration.
The result goes against what the mainstream media have said, which was that crime went down during the Biden-Harris era.
According to the data released in September 2024, it is based on government figures of nonfatal crimes reported and not reported to police from BJS’s NCVS. Through asking 230,000 U.S. people if they have been victims of crimes, the study talks about the types of crimes and victims. This is the 51st study in a series that began during the Nixon era.
The violent crime rate in 2023 was around 19% higher than in 2019, the last year before the “defund-the-police” movement swept the country, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal by Jeffrey H. Anderson, who was director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2017–21:
“But across the country, crime hasn’t gone up the same amount. The recent rise in crime in the United States has mostly been in cities. The places with the most left-wing prosecutors, the most closely watched cops, and the lowest standards of law enforcement and prosecution are the ones where these things have happened.”
“The end result isn’t pretty. The NCVS says that from 2019 to 2023, the rate of serious crime in cities rose by 40%. If you take out simple attacks, the rate of serious crime in cities went up 54% during that time. The rate of serious crime in cities didn’t change significantly from 2022 to 2023, so it looks like higher crime rates are now the average in America’s cities.”
“The rate of property theft in cities is also rising. From 2022 to 2023, it went up from 176.1 crimes per 1,000 homes to 192.3. That’s part of a 26% rise in property crimes in cities since 2019. Since the NCVS only polls homes and not companies, these numbers don’t include shoplifting that happens all the time.”
