Crime stats are often on a delay.

I occasionally see people in Portland cite 2019’s crime stats as proof that things are fine and that you’re just bigoted against homeless people or whatever.

Portland didn’t get the 2020 numbers from the FBI until late September 2021, which at that point showed an 80% increase.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-2021-homicid...

Now we’re at nearly 80 homicides (if we haven’t crossed that, it will likely be this weekend) so far in 2021, breaking the 90s record.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-2021-homicid...

For a while the narrative as that crime was much less serious than is being portrayed in the news. In major American cities, that trend has reversed.