{"id":37617,"date":"2023-10-22T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=37617"},"modified":"2023-10-22T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T19:56:00","slug":"violent-crime-down-in-fl-but-property-crimes-spike-fbi-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/22\/violent-crime-down-in-fl-but-property-crimes-spike-fbi-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent Crime Down In FL, But Property Crimes Spike: FBI Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Violent crime was down 23 percent in Florida in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to new FBI crime data released Monday by the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nationally, violent crime was down slightly, by 1.7 percent to pre-pandemic levels according to the Crime In the Nation, 2022<\/a> report from the FBI. At the same time, property crimes \u2014 especially auto theft \u2014 rose considerably, by 7.1 percent nationally. Florida also saw a slight increase of 3.15 percent in property crimes compared to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report comes with a caveat. In the past, the annual snapshot of crime in the United States has been criticized as missing data from some of the country\u2019s largest cities, including New York and Los Angeles. For the 2021 report, for example, only 62.7 percent of agencies representing just 64.8 percent of the U.S. population submitted data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A change in collection methods helped, and this year, the data represents 83.3 percent of all agencies whose jurisdictions cover 93.5 percent of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Florida, 367 of 758 law enforcement agencies participated by providing data for 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year was the second in a row that violent crime went down, a big turnaround from the 29 percent increase in the murder rate in 2020, a year of huge pandemic-related social disruption and upended support systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Rosenfeld, a criminal justice professor emeritus at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, told The Associated Press the drop in violence can be attributed largely to the fact that the \u201cstresses and strains\u201d associated with the pandemic have abated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy and large, what we\u2019re seeing is simply a return to something approaching normal after the big changes associated with the pandemic,\u201d Rosenfeld said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violent crime includes murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, aggravated assault and robbery. The biggest dips nationally were in homicides (6.1 percent) and rape (5.4 percent). Aggravated assaults decreased by 1.1 percent, and robbery was up by 1.3 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the most recent 2022 report, the national violent crime rate was 380.7 per 100,000 people. That\u2019s statistically the same as the pre-pandemic 2019 violent crime rate of 380.8 per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Florida, the violent crime rate was 258.9 per 100,000 people, compared to 337.3 in 2021 and 431.9 in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data offers a snapshot of gun violence in America<\/a>. Firearms were used in 80.3 percent of murder and manslaughter crimes. And although violent crime was down overall, the number of crimes committed with one or more guns was up 0.6 percent to 488,900 in 2022, according to the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, more minors were shot in 2022 than in the year prior. Both fatal and non-fatal gun injuries decreased for adults, but among juveniles, fatal gun violence increased by a staggering 11.8 percent, from 1,300 to 1,500. The number of non-fatal gunshot incidents for juveniles was also up 10.67 percent, from 61,800 to 68,300.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also in the report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Property Crimes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 7.1 percent increase in property crimes was driven by a 10.9 percent increase in motor vehicle thefts nationwide. Carjackings were up 8.1 percent, and nearly 90 percent involved one or more assailants with a weapon, according to the FBI. More offenders are working in groups, with a 13 percent increase in arrests with two or more suspects. Most carjackings occur at night, between 8 p.m. and 4 p.m., and males under age 18 represent about 18 percent of those arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Florida in 2022, the property crime rate was 1,566.2 per 100,000 people, compared to a rate of 1,517.6 per 100,000 people in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vehicle thefts also increased in Florida and around the nation, continuing the upward trend it has seen in recent years. The Sunshine State saw 138 motor vehicle thefts per 100,000 people in 2022 compared to 99 the previous year – a 39 percent increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall property crime rates were even higher on college campuses, spiking to 35.4 percent in 2022 with more than 6.5 million reports of larceny \u2014 that is, and property theft without violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hate Crimes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reported incidents of hate crimes were up 0.5 percent with 11,634 reported incidents, the highest number since the FBI began tracking such data in 1991. Hate crimes against Jews were up more than 37 percent to 1,122 incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Florida saw 155 hate crimes in 2022. Of these, 73 were race and ethnicity-related and 38 targeted the LGBTQ community. Another 36 hate crimes were related to religion \u2014 including 22 that were anti-Jewish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReported hate crime incidents across the country have once again reached record highs, with anti-Jewish hate crimes<\/a> at a number not seen in decades,\u201d Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complete analysis is found on the Crime Data Explorer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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