Crime was a talking point on the presidential campaign trail. But after a spike during the pandemic, murders have been dropping steadily, including in big cities like Chicago and San Francisco.
That’s not the murder rate, that’s not a measure of how safe things are. It’s a measure of how often a victim has surviving family members that are willing to report the murder.
NCVS data isn’t limited to murders or just homicides. And even if reports by victims or surviving members of their families was a significant issue it’d be mooted by the fact the core value of this study isn’t how much data shows in any one year but how it cross compares to other years.
Each year’s data is relative to the past years data. NCVS is about as good as it gets and is probably better than the UCR for this type of data.
Sure for reported murders by victims families.
That’s not the murder rate, that’s not a measure of how safe things are. It’s a measure of how often a victim has surviving family members that are willing to report the murder.
NCVS data isn’t limited to murders or just homicides. And even if reports by victims or surviving members of their families was a significant issue it’d be mooted by the fact the core value of this study isn’t how much data shows in any one year but how it cross compares to other years.