Murders Up in U.S. Cities; Crime Rate Still Near Record Lows
The 30 largest U.S. cities saw a double-digit increase in their murder rate in 2016.
A study by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice projects that the 2016 murder rate for the largest U.S. cities is up 14% from 2015 while the violent crime rate rose by 3.3%. The overall crime rate, however, increased by just 0.3%, thanks in large part to historically low levels of property crime, according to the study’s authors.