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FBI: Murder Up 21% in First 3/4 of 2020

Rape -15%, robbery -10%, aggravated assault +8%. Arson +24%, car theft +9%, burglary -9%, larceny -11%.

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The results are here, "based on data received from 11,980 of 18,653 law enforcement agencies." You can download the tables here; this is the January-September data, released Dec. 15.

Thanks to Jeff Asher (@Crimealytics) for the pointer.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.