According to the FBI crime statistics, 2024. In the US, a violent crime was on average every 25.9 seconds.
Last year data show that in the USA on average occurred murder every 31.1 minutes, and rape every 4.1 minute.
The southern city of Memphis in Tennessee had the highest rate of violent crime in the US 2024. year, with a 2,501 violent crime per 100,000 people, the FBI said.
Although cases of murders in the United States declined slightly compared to the era of Covid, the crime rate remains high, writes Anadolia.
According to experts, several factors lies in the basis of violence in America, including access to firearms, inconsistent responsibility and lack of prosecution, social and economic difference, lack of access to mental health and instability in the domain of housing.
Michael Tonry, a criminologist at the Faculty of Law, the U.S., the U.S., “Extremely Violence” among Western countries, with serious intentional violence such as murders, of other murders and police murders who are dramatically common.
“Only in the United States, among Western countries, ordinary citizens are allowed to possess guns and semi-automatic firearms, but for killing other people, but in any Western country, police murder,” said Tonry in a 2023 survey. Years.
Killing crisis
Between June 2024. and May 2025. 7,551 murder were reported across the United States, based on data from 421 police administration collected by Real-Time Crime Index, which quoted the New York Times.
In 2020. year, year when the pandemic hit, the average American city was an increase in the murder rate of almost 30 percent, which is the fastest increase that the country has ever recorded, according to the Brookings Institution studio.
More than 24,000 people were killed across the country, compared to about 19,000 earlier, the research is stated.
In August, US President Donald Trump claimed that the murder rate in Washington, DC, greater than in the “worst places on Earth”, including – by his words – Bogot and Mexico City. He recently claimed that Chicago “is the most dangerous city in the world.”
Democratic leaders in both cities say Trump exaggered crime rates to justify the federal intervention, simultaneously acknowledging that it is necessary to do more in the fight against crime.
Violence of firearms and mass shootings
Violence with firearms remains the leading cause of children and teenagers in the USA, with a culture of weapons deeply rooted in American history and modern identity.
According to the archive of violence by firearm, in 2024. More than 488 mass shootings were reported.
Further data reveal that in a period of four years in the USA, there were an average of more than 600 mass shoots per year, almost two per day.
Johns Hopkins School of School Bloomberg revealed 46,728 people died from firearms in 2023. years, including 27,300 suicides by firearms, which is a record of all time. This translates into one death associated with weapons every 11 minutes.
The US has the highest rate of owning weapons among civilians in the world. About 46 percent of households in the US report to own at least one piece of weapon.
“Violence of firearms is a public health tragedy that can be prevented and affected by communities across the United States,” the study states.
Shots in schools: Dark reality
The United States is still in front of the world in the number of shootings in schools – the diversion, the sad reality with which Americans are hard to carry.
Last week, while the students returned to schools after the summer vacation, a man armed with three guns fired dozens of bullets in the school mass in the Catholic Principal in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
After killing two children and wounded 17 others, he seized his life.
So far this year, about 148 people were shot in schools in 158 incidents, show data from a database of shooting schools from preschool age 12. grade.
The largest number of deaths from shootings in schools since 1966. year, when statistics were conducted, 2024 were recorded, with 276 casualties.
Police violence and brutality
Five years after George Floyd was killed by a police officer, also in Minneapolis, the number of people killed by the police in the United States continues to grow.
Only in 2024. year, at least 1,226 people were killed by police, which is an increase of 18 percent compared to 2019. year, according to the analysis of the New York Times using the data from the Washington Post and Mapping Police Violence.
The report also suggests that African Americans are disproportionately affected.
Despite protests across the country and political promises, experts claim that significant police reform was mostly absent.
Rape and sexual assault
Sexual violence remains a widespread and growing problem in the United States.
In fiscal 2024. 61,6,678 cases of sexual assault, including 1,430 cases of sexual abuse, representing an increase of 62.5 percent in such offenses from 2020. years, the Commission for Provision of the United States Days.
The largest number of cases of sexual abuse was reported in the southern Dakota, the Federal State of the Midwest.
However, the number of arrests and convictions for cases of sexual attack is lower than for other violent crimes.
Earlier this year, the NBC News reported that in certain cities across the United States, less than four percent of reported rape, sexual attacks and sexual abuse charges ever results in a convictions for sexual crime.
Attack in the subway
Violent crime continues to grow in American transit systems.
Last month, the 23-year-old Ukrainian is mortally stabbed in the public transport in Charlotte, North Carolina, which emphasizes the growing problem of public transport violence in America.
According to the Vital City Public Security Group, the attacks in the subway tripled since 2009. years.
In 2023 years, in American transit systems, 561 criminal offenses were recorded, compared to only 150 in 2009. years.
Experts say that attacks now exceed the number of robberies and theft in public transport.
Robbery and theft
The United States is still facing a high level of property crime, including robbery and car theft.
Between June 2024. and May 2025. year, according to the real-time crime index, over 109,000 robberies were reported across the country.
Car thefts have exceeded 850,000 in 2024. years. Washington, DC, recorded the largest rate in the country, with 842 cars stolen per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the data of the National Crime Insurance Bureau.
Domestic violence
Domestic violence remains a deadly US problem, especially when it comes to firearms.
According to the National Telephone for Violence in the Family, on average 24 people, including men and women, every minute become victims of rape, physical violence or stalking partner, which annually is more than 12 million people.
According to research and politics, everytown, every month more than 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner.
Almost six million women in the United States report that weapons were used against them by the current or former partner. It is significant that in almost half of all mass shootings between 2015. and 2022. year, the attacker also targeted a family member or an intimate partner, states further.
Recently, Trump suggested that domestic violence – or “Little Fights with his wife”, should not be counted in official crime statistics, implying that such incidents distract from others, probably more serious offenses.
(Vijesti.ba)
