Violent crime rate increased under Biden-Harris admin: report

Despite what some Democratic politicians and media pundits have said about violent crime stabilizing under the Biden-Harris regime, violent crime has escalated, according to the most current data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) run by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and administered by the Census Bureau, Breitbart reports. Urban centers, facing the brunt of the increase, have seen a 40 percent rise in violent crime. 

The report runs contrary to what much of the mainstream media has reported or cited in “fact-checks.” During the Sept. 10 presidential debate, moderator David Muir contradicted Donald Trump’s claim that there has been rising crime under the Biden-Harris administration.

The data is the assessment of official estimates of nonfatal criminal acts both reported and unreported to police by BJS and NCVS. The report documents crime and its victims as evidenced by 230,000 US residents who were asked whether they were a victim of a crime. The survey has been conducted for over 51 years.  

“Excluding simple assault — the type of violent crime least likely to be charged as a felony — the violent crime rate in 2023 was 19 percent higher than in 2019, the last year before the defund-the-police movement swept the country,” Jeffrey H. Anderson, the former director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2017-21, summarized the data for the Wall Street Journal: