Republicans Are Going All In to Convince You Crime Is Out of Control. They Don’t Have Any Proof. – Mother Jones

As candidates on both sides of the aisle pump out ads about public safety, it's worth keeping in mind the older data that we do have: Yes, killings rose significantly in 2020, in red and blue states alike, but even then, the murder rate was far lower than in the 1990s, and overall crime decreased. 

And just because it's harder to fact-check the ads this year, that doesn't mean it's impossible to catch candidates in their lies. That gruesome ad from New York, showing pedestrians being shot at in the streets? Well, the state's Republican gubernatorial candidate, Zeldin, recently admitted that half of its crime footage was filmed before his opponent, Gov. Hochul, even took office—and that one clip in the original version of the ad wasn't even from New York, but had been filmed all the way across the country in Oakland, California…

https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/10/fbi-crime-stats-republicans-zeldin-fetterman-ronchetti-homicides-bad-data-midterms/