Image Credit: Tony Webster / CC
The Tennessee Conservative [By Jason Vaughn] –
Newly released FBI data places Tennessee as the third worst state in the nation for violent crimes and the worst in the South. This data comes from a study of 2021 crime numbers.
The violent crime rate rose nearly 13% in 2020. This category includes crimes such as aggravated assault, homicide, rape, and robbery.
According to their statistics, Tennessee’s violent crime rate is approximately 675 per 100,000 people. This is nearly double the national rate of 396 per 100,000 people.
While the country saw a decrease in the number of robberies that took place, there was an increase in the murder and rape counts. According to the report, “Murder and non-negligent manslaughter offenses increased 4.3% while revised rape offenses increased 3.4%.”
Revised rape offenses include the offenses of rape, sodomy, and sexual assault in the calculation of violent crimes.
Verna Wyatt, victims advocate and cofounder of Tennessee Voices for Victims, told WKRN, “We are also in the top ten states where men kill women and at one point, we were number four.”
Wyatt says that the common denominator for violent crime is “trauma, usually childhood trauma.”
Governor Lee recently announced a new plan to help deal with the increase in crimes in Tennessee. $100 million worth of grant money will be given to local law enforcement agencies to help fund programs that have been proven to help reduce crime.
Some individuals believe that money would be better spent by providing community organizations with funding to help provide children with a better path earlier on.
While Governor Lee did not discuss the allocation of any specific funding to community and faith-based programs, he did acknowledge their importance in an interview with Fox 17 News.
“I think you make a really great point that communities are a significant part of the answer,” Lee stated. “Government isn’t the answer to the greatest problems we have. We have an important role to play…so it’s incredibly important that we engage in our communities and our community organizations.”
About the Author: Jason Vaughn, Media Coordinator for The Tennessee Conservative ~ Jason previously worked for a legacy publishing company based in Crossville, TN in a variety of roles through his career. Most recently, he served as Deputy Director for their flagship publication. Prior, he was a freelance journalist writing articles that appeared in the Herald Citizen, the Crossville Chronicle and The Oracle among others. He graduated from Tennessee Technological University with a Bachelor’s in English-Journalism, with minors in Broadcast Journalism and History. Contact Jason at news@TennesseeConservativeNews.com
7 Responses
I believe that is a bunch of CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They only reason this is being said is because Tennessee is a Conservative state. They certainly can’t say Illinois, or New York, or California because that does not fit the narrative. Also that would be the truth.
Why do we publish anything the FBI says as “fact”? New Orleans just took over the title of “murder capitol of the country”. LA is ‘in the south”. The Fibbies put out wrong/partial information because they have a hidden agenda – in this case, it will be to take away TN’s 2A rights.
What happens when the Memphis data is removed? Then where does Tennessee rank?
Like we suppose to believe anything the Biden FBI says!!!! All credibility GONE.
Hey
FBI
Here’s
Your
Sign
!!!
I want my tax money back
If Lee would work to STOP illegals’ from being dropped off in the middle of the night maybe Tennessee wouldn’t be going in the wrong direction. Right here in my city (Maryville) a bus dropped off a load in the middle of the night, and people from this wonderful (Not) Liberal church or someone took them to who knows where.
I believe that the FBI cannot be trusted! They will try to disarm our state, by lieing, and blaming the Second Amendment.