Crime in the United States

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Murders

2021: Number of intentional homicides by state

Число умышленных убийств в To Europe US by data available for 2021

2020: US murder rate rises 30% - NCCCJ

In the United States in 2020, the number of murders increased by 30%, and the number of attacks with firearms and aggravated attacks - by 8% and 6%, respectively. This is evidenced by data from the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice (NCCCJ).

The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, cases of police violence and an increase in murders and violent crimes themselves pose serious political problems, but in the complex they further aggravate the political situation, the NCCCJ report says.

The number of murders in the United States for 2020 increased by 30%

Experts analyzed data for 34 cities, USA which varied in size and population. In addition to the three crimes listed above, the report examined rates of domestic violence, robbery, residential and non-residential burglaries, car thefts and drug offences.

Chicago had 433 homicides through June 2020, up from 284 in the same period last year. The number of homicides in Philadelphia during the same period rose from 187 to 247, and in New York - from 176 to 227.

Homicide rates were consistently higher throughout 2020 compared to the previous year, according to the report. In January and February 2020, the total number of murders increased by 32.5%, from March to May there was an increase of 19.4%, from June to August - by 37.2%, and from September to December - by 28.2%. The commission called the identified figures "a huge and alarming growth that has no precedent in modern times." Rates of car thefts, gun attacks and aggravated assaults are also up from 2019. Meanwhile, the number of robberies, drug crimes, burglaries of non-residential and residential premises decreased during the pandemic and during the year as a whole.

In terms of domestic violence, analysts were able to examine data from only 12 cities. They found that in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a "significant increase" in these types of crimes, but then this figure leveled off and became about the same as in 2019.^[1]

2019

Police shoot 932 people in a year

321 people died in massacres

2018:4 journalists killed

Countries in the number of murders of journalists in 2018

Thefts

2022: American retail chains lose $100 billion in a year from store thefts

In 2022, losses of retail chains from theft amounted to more than $100 billion, according to the National Retail Federation USA (NRF). The study was published in May 2023.

Retailers are sounding the alarm over organised retail crime. This is increasingly damaging the economy, jobs and availability of goods, the NRF said.

Losses of retail chains from theft amounted to more than $100 billion

As noted in the organization, more and more losses of the industry are brought not only by ordinary shoplifters, but also by criminal groups that steal goods for resale. Representatives of the federation note that retailers record a growing number of thefts not only from stores, but also in the process of transporting goods from warehouses to retail outlets. In general, the situation has a bad effect not only on retailers, but also on consumers.

As the Financial Times newspaper writes with reference to the consulting company Jack L. Hayes International, over 80% of American retailers suffered millions of losses from increased theft in stores in 2022. Travelers, an insurance company, estimates that in 2022 there was a sixfold increase in thefts before goods entered the store using fake invoice documents. Earlier, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced plans to "end retail store crime" as theft complaints increased 45% in 2022.

Earlier, Jill Timm, CFO of Kohl's department store chain, said on a conference call with analysts that her company recorded an increase in losses from theft in the first quarter of 2023.

We can take certain measures to at least contain the momentum. But we expect the difficult situation to continue in the near future, she said.

Also in late May, the CEO of footwear and sportswear chain Foot Locker, Mary Dillon, said thefts and takeaways "add to the company's losses," particularly in the clothing segment.^[2]

US prisons

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Death penalty

2024

The number of death sentences put into effect in the United States for the year increased by a third - from 18 to 24

At the end of 2023, 24 death sentences were carried out in the United States, which is a third more than the previous year, when 18 people were executed. Such data was released in December 2023 by the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit organization based in Washington.

It is reported that in 2023 in the United States, death sentences were imposed on 23 men. In addition, for the first time in American history, a transgender woman, Amber McLaughlin, was executed. She was convicted of raping and murdering her ex-girlfriend Beverley Gunther in 2003. At the time of the crime, McLaughlin lived as a man. All executions in 2023 were carried out by lethal injection.

At the end of 2023, 24 death sentences were carried out in the United States

The 2023 was the ninth consecutive year that fewer than 30 people were executed (24) and fewer than 50 people sentenced to death (21). In addition, for the first time, executions exceeded the number of new death sentences. In 2023, only five states (Texas, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma and Alabama) executed people and only seven states (Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas) sentenced criminals to death. Most states (29) have either abolished the death penalty altogether or suspended the execution of appropriate sentences.

The criminals executed in 2023, as noted, spent an average of 23 years in prison, which is the longest average period since the resumption of executions in 1976. At the same time, their average age at the time of execution was 54 years. A Gallup poll found that 53% of Americans support the death penalty in 2023, the lowest since March 1972.^[3]

US executes prisoner with nitrogen for first time in history

For the first time in history, an American court allowed a prisoner to be executed with nitrogen. 58-year-old Kenneth Smith, who was convicted of the contract murder of a woman committed in 1988, was sentenced to capital punishment. Read more here.

2018: Texas leads death penalty by a wide margin

The number of death executions in the United States from 1976 to 2018. Map with data by state.

1928: Hanging of the Jew Birger, a native of Adygea

Native Adygea Jewish Charles Birger (Shahnai Itsik Birger), who emigrated as a child with his parents from Russia to the United States, was hanged on April 19, 1928 for ordering the murder of the mayor of a small town in Illinois. His last line was "It's a beautiful day," which the press deliberately perverted to "It's a beautiful world."

1920: Lynching three black men on false rape charge

Lynching in Duluth (Minnesota

3 blacks were hanged due to the accusation of rape of a white girl, which turned out to be slander. The only case of black lynching in the state. 1920]]

Chronicle

1994

Rapper 50 Cent, at that moment - just a 19-year-old thug convicted of drug trafficking. 1994

1983

The detention of a young man who played "Russian roulette" with his friend - a friend won the "prize" sector. New York, USA. February 8, 1983

1978

Exhumation of a stolen Ferrari. The inventive thief kept her in the ground for 4 years. Los Angeles, 1978.

1975

Bank robber destroys security camera to hide his identity, Cleveland, Ohio, 1975

1962

Detained by NYPD with 24 pounds of pure heroin is French. He arrived in the United States aboard a luxury liner. Smuggling from France, 1962.

1949

Gangster Mickey Cohen and the newspapers that denounce him, 1949.

1940: Lesbian sex orientation is a crime

Police photo of an arrested girl for non-traditional sexual orientation, USA, 1940.

1939

Car numbers for malicious violators with a special. badges greatly simplified the work of police officers, USA, 1939

The man's name was Charles Arthur Floyd. In the 1930s, in the United States, he robbed banks, and at each robbery he burned all mortgage papers, freeing hundreds of people from mortgage payments. For this, he became a popular favorite and received the nickname "Handsome Floyd."

The car in which Edward "Happy Eddie" Joseph O'Hara was killed. Al Capone's lawyer who testified against him, 1939

January 7, 1939. Shot of Al Capone on the day he arrived at Terminal Island Prison, California.

1935

Ma Barker, the mother of all American gangsters, organized the Barker Gang. She was killed along with her son Fred in a fierce hours-long shootout by FBI agents surrounding her home in 1935.

1934

Ordinary Americans are photographed with the body of a famous criminal, bank robber John Dillinger, exhibited in a morgue for spectators, USA, 1934.

Arsenal, which was discovered in Bonnie and Clyde's car after their murder, 1934.

On May 23, 1934, an ambush of six shot Bonnie and Clyde in their car, firing a total of more than 130 bullets. In the air there was still a caustic smell of gunpowder, as onlookers rushed to the perforated car, trying to grab something as a keepsake. One man tried to cut off Clyde's ear with a pocket knife and another tried to tear his finger off. Before police intervened, one of the onlookers managed to trim Bonnie's strands of hair.

1933

Famous criminal couple. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. UNITED STATES. 1933

Al Capone plays the banjo, 1930s.

1932

Al Capone Criminal Case, FBI, Washington, 1932.

1931: Al Capone trial

1931. UNITED STATES. Gangsters hide their faces at Al Capone's trial.

A hand with a pick ace belongs to mob boss Joe Masseria, who was murdered in a Brooklyn restaurant in 1931.

Al Capone fishing, 1931

Unemployed men queue at gangster Al Capone's free dining room, 1931. The gunman opened this institution in Chicago. During the Great Depression, every second resident of the city was unemployed. They literally had nothing to eat. Al Capone decided to improve his public reputation. Chicagoans were fed soup 3 times a day, Alfonse personally went out to communicate with the townspeople. Visitors, on the other hand, gladly told the media that they receive more help from the gangster than from the government.

1929

Famous mobsters: Meer Lansky, Al Capone, Nicky Johnson with buddies. Atlantic City. UNITED STATES. April, 1929

1928

Eighteen-year-old Bonnie Elizabeth Parker - before meeting her Clyde Barrow, USA, 1928.

Gangster machine gun in a violin case, 1928.

1908

Incarcerated homosexuals in women's dress at correctional jobs. Colorado, USA 1900-1910

1900

Prisoners at a shameful pillar in the court yard of Newcastle County, Delaware, United States. They were sentenced to stand at the shameful pillar for a certain period, usually for minor crimes. 1900.

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