Silver State Times

The state is on par with the rest of the country as the rising murder rate has followed a litany of police issues that have led to a surge in retirements and resignations.

Nevada’s homicide rate rose by 17.5% from 2019 to 2020, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crime Data Explorer.

KTNV reported Nov. 17 that the state has had problems with hiring officers because of lack of funding and a decline in public perception.

Since the FBI began tracking murders in the 1960s, the country has seen its biggest homicide surge in contemporary history, a 30% jump.

Chief of the Mortality Statistics Branch at National Center for Health Statistics Robert Anderson told CNN that, "It is the largest increase in 100 years."

Crime reports statistics show that 21,570 Americans were killed in 2020 as opposed to 16,425 in 2019, according to CNN.

CNN reported that the murder rate in the U.S. was six homicides per 100,000 people in 2019 and jumped to 7.8 per 100,000 in 2020, accounting for the biggest jump since 1995, yet still below the 10 homicides per 100,000 individuals seen in the 1980s.

“The rise in crime we’ve seen since the George Floyd death and the riots over the summer is astounding,” Heather MacDonald, a scholar at the Manhattan Institute, recently stated. “Last year we saw the largest percentage increase in homicides in this nation’s history, and it’s gotten worse in 2021."

Through the middle of this year, police retirements were up by 45% with resignations also rising to 18%, which MacDonald told Fox News could be attributed to the added scrutiny of law enforcement amid calls to “defund the police.”

The National Fraternal Order of the Police reported that 75 police officers have been involved in ambush-style attacks, along with 241 officers shot and 44 killed.