As the United States reports record high increases in homicide, Nevada has seen a corresponding increase, rising by 17% from 2019 to 2020. | Facebook
As the United States reports record high increases in homicide, Nevada has seen a corresponding increase, rising by 17% from 2019 to 2020. | Facebook
As the United States reported a record high increase in its homicides rate, Nevada has seen a 17% increase in slayings in 2020 from a year earlier.
Incidents of rape in Reno increased by 510% and incidents of aggravated assault climbed by 541% during that same time span, according to the FBI's Crime Data Explorer.
“The rise in crime we’ve seen since the George Floyd death and the riots over the summer is astounding,” Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute said in the Independent Women’s Forum.
Most recent data show that Reno's crime rate is higher than that in 83% of U.S. cities. In 2021, there were 75 ambush-style attacks on police officers, 241 officer shootings and 44 deaths, according to the National Fraternal Order of Police.
“Last year we saw the largest percentage increase in homicides in this nation’s history and it’s gotten worse in 2021,” MacDonald said.
The U.S. recorded a 30% jump in the homicide rate from 2019 to 2020, the largest increase in modern history, CNN reported. FBI data goes back to the 1960s, when the Bureau first started recording data.
Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at National Center for Health Statistics, underscored this, telling CNN that "It is the largest increase in 100 years." FBI crime reports show that 21,570 Americans were slain in 2020, compared to 16,425 in 2019.
The homicide rate in the country was increased to 7.8 homicides per 100,000 people in 2020, up from 6 per 100,000 in 2019, CNN reported. Though this is the highest rate since 1995, it is still lower than the 10 homicides per 100,000 residents seen in the 1980s.
As crime rises, a KTNV report stated that police departments around Nevada have been struggling to recruit officers due to lack of funding and poor public perception. MacDonald said police retirements were up 45% and resignations were up 18%, Fox News reported July 14..
This comes in light of increased scrutiny of police officers and the spread of "defund the police" initiatives across the country, MacDonald told Fox News.
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