Athol Daily News – Massachusett's crime rates almost completely reduced on the entire board

Boston – The publication of statistics from 2024 at the beginning of this month showed that crime had dropped in Massachusetts last year. The Healey government showed that the state's “strong dynamics” of the state to reduce crime and maintain public security.

However, the data draw a more complicated picture in which arrests have expired and the general trend masks that are worried, things like shop theft and hate crimes.

The preliminary crime data of 2024 show that 231,442 crimes were reported in Massachusetts in Massachusetts in Massachusetts, by 6.53% compared to 2023, when they examined all crimes and 4.4% compared to 2023 after a view of “Part 1” rigs such as murder, rape, robbery and burly. Last year there were 91,619 arrests, an increase in 36 arrests (0.04%) compared to 2023.

When considering the number of crimes recorded per year of 100,000 people per year, the state's crime rate decreased by 6.5% in 2024, from 3,532.6 crimes per 100,000 people in 2023 to 3,301.9 crimes per 100,000 people. The nationwide crime rate has been somewhat higher since the Covid 199 pandemic (2,930 crimes per 100,000 people in 2019), but remains well below the height of this century in 2008 (4,565.2 crimes per 100,000 people).

Last year, 132 murders were reported in Massachusetts, a decline of 11.4% compared to 2023 and below the five -year average of 146 murders, the state said. The robberies decreased by 8.6% (2,631 in 2023 compared to 2,406 in 2024), increased attacks by 5.7% (17,823 in 2023 compared to 16,813 in 2024), and the motor vehicle thefts in 2023 and 7.182 in 1824. The state said that fraud -related criminal offenses, including identity thief and social fraud, two -digit declines.

The state zoomed into the sub -group of offenses in which a firearm was involved and said that the murders had dropped by almost 22%with a firearm, robberies with a firearm of almost 16%and had dropped tightened attacks with a firearm by only 10%.

On Mondays, more criminal incidents recorded more than any other day of the week in 2024, with 35,338 crimes taking place on Mondays. Friday was a narrow second with 35,251 incidents. Sundays were the least active incidents with 28,148 incidents.

“This new data is encouraging and reflecting the important work to do the law enforcement and community partners every day to bring people in Massachusetts to safety,” said Governor Maura Healey in a statement. “We know that there is more and more work to do, and we are still obliged to bring people together to further improve public security in communities throughout the state.”

The state generally has not emphasized any data that has shown where these work is still to be done, but the state's press release to crime statistics explained: “While national and regional trends, such as an increase in charging thiefs, also Massachusetts, general crime reductions, including violent crime, the positive effects of the nationwide strategies for public security reaffirm. “

The lovage of the shop rose by 20.8% by 20.8% compared to 2023, with 18,203 shoplifts reported in 2024 compared to 15.068 in the previous year. Compared to COVID-19 pandemic (12,389 incidents in 2019), the shop theft rose by around 47%.

This trend is most pronounced in Suffolk County, where the number of reported shoplifts from around 900 in 2019 rose to more than 4,300 incidents in 2024.

The secretary for public security and security, Terrence Reidy, who managed the secretariat of public security of the state since the Republican governor, Charlie Baker, said in 2021, said the new data offer “an encouraging snapshot” and also intensify the importance of focus and coordination of our efforts to reduce crime “.

The administration also trumpet more than 45 million US dollars that she had invested in 2024 for targeted public security initiatives, and showed that it “contributed to a measurable decline in crime in the nationwide communities”.

Through programs such as the Shannon Community Safety Initiative, Emerging Adult Reentry Initiative and the Commonwealth Project Safe Viertel, state money has decided on things such as violence prevention, re -entry services, up -and -coming initiatives for adults, non -profit security improvements and strategies to combat human trafficking and the disturbance of human trade.

The state said that overall hate criminal incidents decreased in 2024. And although this is the case of the 466 hate crimes reported here last year, less than the 561 incidents that recorded the second most common hate crimes of one year in 2023-2024.

The biased incidents in which declines were recorded last year included hate crimes, the victims of which were targeted because of an anti-transent tendency. The state data show a decline of almost 42%, from 24 such incidents from 2023 to 14 in 2024, the same number as in 2022.

However, the state officials also referred to “a disturbing increase of 20.5%” of anti -Semitic hate crimes last year (data show 130 incidents in 2024 compared to 105 in 2022, 56 in 2021 and 39 in 2020). The state data list only 23 other hate crimes, which were classified as an anti-religion last year: 10 anti-Islamic incidents, six that were aimed at a “different” religion, two anti-artatholic events, two incidents that were against other Christian beliefs, two anti-SIKH incidents and one that aimed at atheism.

For the first time since the state was persecuted in 1991, an anti-Jewish prejudices exceeded anti-Schwarz incidents than the most reported hate crimes in Massachusetts, said officials.

Since autumn, Westfield Senator John Velis and Concord Rep. Simon Cataldo have managed the new Commission of the State to combat anti -Semitism, which they said that they are supposed to equip the recent “shameful call of Massachusetts as the center of anti -Semitic activity”.

Massachusetts recorded 438 anti-Semitic incidents in 2024 in 2024, as reported in the annual examination of anti-Semitic incidents by the anti-defamation League in the anti-defamation league, which has a wider lens than the crime data reported by local departments. The count of the ADL was less than in 2023, but still the fifth highest number of incidents by a state in the country.

The group said that the number of anti -Semitic incidents that they count here has been 188%since 2022.

The state said that the FBI will publish its official and certified national crime statistics from 2024 in September and that the analysts of Massachusetts Crime will “continue to check data in order to identify trends in the meantime”.