Crime Updates

The FBI’s annual crime report card came out Monday. 

Violent crime in the U.S. dropped between 2022 and 2023, with rape down 9.4% and murder and non-negligent manslaughter down 11.6% (the largest one-year decline ever recorded). Preliminary 2024 numbers show the decline continuing. 

Still, prosecutors won’t be without work any time soon… Data from the same time frame showed an increase in car theft (+12.6%) and shoplifting (+15%).

Prosecutors in former President Trump’s second attempted assassination case are also staying busy. A federal judge ruled would-be assassin Ryan Routh be held without bail following newly submitted evidence, including a list of expected whereabouts to “stalk” Trump and a handwritten letter—penned months ago—in which Routh preemptively admitted to a failed “assassination attempt,” offering $150K for someone to “complete the job.”

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CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
Christians’ radical love shines in our violent world when we love even those who hate and hurt us. Loving our enemies demonstrates that we belong to our Father, who loved his enemies so much that he allowed them to kill his Son so that he could be close to them.

“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?” 
Matthew 5:44-46 (CSB) (read full passage)