Kill Switch

According to data gathered from cities across America, the murder rate dropped by about 13% this year. Yes, we’re killing each other less. “And it’s not just murder. FBI data for the third quarter show that every category of crime except for motor-vehicle theft is down, some of them sharply, year over year from 2022. (As for the car thefts, they seem—in one of the weirdest data flukes you’ll ever see—to have been driven almost entirely by TikTok videos showing the ease of breaking into certain Kias and Hyundais.)” The Atlantic (Gift Article): America’s Peace Wave.

+ “A Gallup poll released this month found that 77% of Americans believe crime rates are worsening.” Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They’re wrong.