CNN host admits it 'doesn't feel like crime is down,' despite FBI statistics

CNN big Kasie Hunt and wide commentator Karen Finney said Tuesday that it didn't consciousness similar transgression was down successful their communities, contempt the FBI's recently released statistic showing convulsive transgression had gone down successful 2023.

"I deliberation it is important to speech astir the declines successful convulsive crime. The situation though, I deliberation connected the contented is, whereas those statistic are correct, successful our regular lives, we’re inactive like, I perceive successful D.C., we‘ve got carjackings. We’ve got radical getting mugged and past mediate of the day," Finney said.

"It doesn't consciousness similar transgression is down successful a batch of places," Hunt said. 

The FBI released statistic connected Monday that recovered convulsive transgression had decreased wide by 3% successful 2023 from 2022. Murder, rape, aggravated assaults each decreased successful 2023, according to the data. However, centrifugal conveyance theft accrued successful 2023 by 12.6%.

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CNN's Kasie Hunt said Tuesday that it didn't consciousness similar transgression was down successful immoderate large cities, contempt FBI data. (Screenshot/CNN)

While Finney said decreased execution rates should beryllium celebrated, she inactive expressed concern. 

"But it is the transgression that we interact with connected a much day-to-day ground that I deliberation makes america consciousness similar it’s not down. And I deliberation that’s the challenge," Finney added. 

Axios newsman Alex Thompson noted that carjackings did spell up and pointed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The different happening I deliberation the crushed wherefore the feeling is due to the fact that you saw a immense spike during COVID and the information is that we‘ve seen a dependable decline, but present transgression is lone astir backmost to wherever it was successful 2019, which is wherefore I deliberation that the vibes, the feeling is due to the fact that we person this spike due to the fact that of the pandemic," Thompson said. 

Hunt added that portion a person's feelings connected transgression person a batch to bash with what they work and ticker each day, "I get warnings to not rent definite classes of cars due to the fact that they get stolen each the time."

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Earlier successful the segment, Republican strategist Brad Todd suggested Vice President Kamala Harris did not privation to marque the predetermination astir crime. 

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"I deliberation this is simply a precise unsafe happening for Harris to speech about. She has a philosophical disconnect with the halfway of the electorate connected it. She said we needed to trim incarceration. She said we request to halt reasoning that putting much constabulary and the thoroughfare makes america safe. I don‘t deliberation she wants October to beryllium astir crime," Todd said.