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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

FBI report disproves Trump’s claim of a Biden-era out-of-control crime wave

Joe Biden at a podium with a camera silhouette in the foreground
Joe Biden at the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, on 16 June 2023. Photograph: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty

When Donald Trump fought for and won the 2024 presidential election, his victory was built partly on the false assertion that Democrats were responsible for an out-of-control crime wave in the US, with murders and rapes at record highs.

Figures released by the FBI on Tuesday, however, confirm that the nation was as safe as it ever had been during the final full year of the Biden administration. Every category of crime decreased in frequency, and violent crime in particular dropped to levels not seen since the 1960s, per the report.

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