New Mexico has been dubbed the riskiest state in the US for raising a family, according to a new map based on FBI crime data.

One technical note: In his posts, Newsom flipped back and forth between referring to the "homicide" rate and the "murder" rate. For the CDC data, he should have exclusively used the term "homicide," ...

The national homicide rate reached a peak in 2021, according to the Council on Criminal Justice. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, homicides have stayed on a downward trajectory in many cities ...