Take those figures with 2 whole cups of salt.
Crime statistics are not universally being reported these days, and some jurisdictions have started re-classifying crimes to make their statistics look better. This was all deliberately started because nominal Republicans were using these stats to make policy, and Democrats being Democrats, they started altering the input data to those statistics to deny Republicans that talking point.
The best way to actually measure crime rates is the National Crime Victim Survey the DoJ does, which doesn't rely on suspect data inputs from nefarious state, county, or city districts that have ideological bias.
Take those figures with 2 whole cups of salt. Crime statistics are not universally being reported these days, and some jurisdictions have started re-classifying crimes to make their statistics look better. This was all deliberately started because nominal Republicans were using these stats to make policy, and Democrats being Democrats, they started altering the input data to those statistics to deny Republicans that talking point.
The best way to actually measure crime rates is the National Crime Victim Survey the DoJ does, which doesn't rely on suspect data inputs from nefarious state, county, or city districts that have ideological bias.
They were also on a multi-year downward trend from the Summer of Love.
I don't expect that trend will continue this year.