(Trends Wide) — The FBI released its Uniform Annual Crime Report for 2020 on Monday, which shows that the number of homicides in the United States increased nearly 30% since 2019, the largest increase in a year the agency has recorded since it began tracking these crimes. in the 1960s.
The report, which is on par with the preliminary figures that were reported during the summer, also shows a 5% increase in violent crime between 2019 and 2020. Overall crimes reported by the FBI decreased approximately 6% between 2019 and 2020.
There were more than 21,500 murders last year, a total not seen since the mid-1990s. The murder rate in 2020 was about 6.5 per 100,000 people, about 40% below what it was in the United States. The 1980s and 1990s, when homicides peaked in the United States.
According to the report, the number of homicides last year began to climb during the summer months, peaking in June and July and remaining at high levels after that.
