evidence: The White House took a veiled jab at the Trump administration, saying that Biden's predecessor "oversaw the largest increase in murders ever recorded." [...] Instances of violent crime, such as murders, increased during the COVID-19 pandemic at the end of the Trump administration. Since then, however, most violent crime has been on the decline. In 2019, there were 5.1 homicides per 100,000 people, but in 2020, that number grew to 6.5 homicides per 100,000 people before peaking in 2021 at 6.8 homicides per 100,000 people.