{"id":3073,"date":"2023-01-02T02:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T08:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2023-03-14T02:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:06:14","slug":"violent-crime-soars-in-2022-blame-pinned-on-too-few-cops-lax-prosecutors-more-brutal-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Violent crime soars in 2022; blame pinned on too few cops, lax prosecutors, more brutal society<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homicide rates dipped in 2022, but violent crimes such as rape, robbery and assault remained dramatically higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Times found in a review of data from police departments across the country.<br \/>Through the final week of December, violent crime in Chicago soared 41% from the same period a year earlier, though homicides declined 14%. In New York City, overall violent crime increased by 23% from 2021 but homicides dropped by 13%. Violent crime in Los Angeles jumped 8% while homicides dropped by roughly 6%.<br \/>Studies by police and law enforcement organizations reached similar conclusions.<br \/>The Council on Criminal Justice\u2019s midyear 2022 crime report, released in September, found that the homicide rate in 29 U.S. cities dipped by 2% through the first six months of the year from the same period in 2021. Aggravated assaults and robberies increased by 4% and 19%, respectively.<br \/>A Major Cities Chiefs Association survey of 70 U.S. law enforcement agencies found that homicides dropped by 2% through the first six months of 2022 but violent crime increased by 4.4%. Robberies were up by 13%, and aggravated assaults increased by 3%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/dec\/30\/violent-crime-soars-2022-blame-pinned-too-few-cops\/\">Washingtontimes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homicide rates dipped in 2022, but violent crimes such as rape, robbery and assault remained dramatically higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Times found in a review of data from police departments across the country.Through the final week of December, violent crime in Chicago soared 41% from the same period a year earlier, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1226,1555,1271,1159,2364,3206],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-attack","tag-chicago","tag-lame","tag-more","tag-robbery","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7399,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/7399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}