According to a new crime report, car robberies have skyrocketed in dozens of cities across the United States in the first half of 2023.
The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) released its “Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Mid-Year 2023 Update” on July 20, which examines monthly crime rates for ten violent, property, and drug offenses in 37 American cities.
The latest report updates and supplements previous U.S. crime trends studies by the CCJ with additional crime data through June 2023 and also shows how online fads worsen real-world crime trends.
Not all of the 37 cities in the study reported data for each offense, and the data used to measure the crime trends are subject to revision by local jurisdictions, said the CCJ….