How much safer or more dangerous is the United States? The answer largely depends on the specific metrics used, and compared to when.
For instance, if we look at state-by-state homicide rates from 2012 to 2022, there’s a noticeable increase in most states. However, these rates are still below those recorded in the 1980s and 1990s.
A graphic from USAFacts offers an analysis of age-adjusted homicide rates across states for the period from 2012 to 2022, illustrating these changes. This analysis utilizes CDC data covering 46 states, with New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming lacking available data.
As Visual Capitalist‘s Omri Wallach notes, from 2012 to 2022, homicide rates increased in every state with available data except for Connecticut, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. Here are the rates for all 46 available states as well as their 10-year change in percentage:
What about drug overdoses, used to be that drug dealers could be charged with murder or manslaughter. I bet if those stats were categorized, the rates would be much higher than 1980s and 1990s. Many drug overdose victims have no clue that what they are about to consume is going to kill them.
Of course, they NEVER read the warning labels.
Democrat Presidents most of those years.
If you don’t want to OD, don’t put street drugs in your body. I never worry about OD-ing. It really is that simple. Addiction is a choice, not a disease. Nobody ever said “I think I’ll go to the beer store and buy me a six pack of cancer “