Why do people insist there's more crime?

I'm tired of conservatives insisting that cities are unsafe or that crime is rising. That's just media hype.

I know exactly what they're trying to do...dwell on the fact that 15 of our 16 largest cities are Dem run. First of all, that has nothing to do with the rise in crime...that doesn't exist.

The number of U.S. children and teens killed by gunfire rose 50% in just two years, according to a 2023 analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2019, there were 1,732 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under 18. By 2021, that figure had increased to 2,590.

The gun death rate among children and teens – a measure that adjusts for changes in the nation’s population – rose 46% during that span.

Both the number and rate of children and teens killed by gunfire in 2021 were the highest since at least 1999, the earliest year for which this information is available in the CDC’s mortality database.