Chart showing arrests fell by 24% from 2019 to 2020.

Data Source: FBI Crime in the United States 2019 and 2020 Table 29. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2022)

This graph originally appeared in Untangling why prison & jail populations dropped early in the pandemic.

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