{"id":106095,"date":"2024-06-24T12:04:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/active-shooting-incidents-in-the-us-declined-by-4-from-2022-to-2023-fbi\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T12:04:09","slug":"active-shooting-incidents-in-the-us-declined-by-4-from-2022-to-2023-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/active-shooting-incidents-in-the-us-declined-by-4-from-2022-to-2023-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Active shooting incidents in the US declined by 4% from 2022 to 2023: FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-24\/GETTYRF_6222_GunBarrelBullets.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Steve Prezant\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Active shooter incidents in the U.S. declined by 4% from 2022 to 2023, according to new statistics released by the FBI on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the FBI designated 48 shootings as &#8220;active shooter incidents,&#8221; compared to 50 in 2022, according to the FBI\u2019s 2023 Active Shooter Report.<\/p>\n<p>Last year also saw the number of those killed decrease from 313 in 2022 to 244 in 2023, according to the report. The shooters were largely male.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI says from 2019 to 2023, there were 229 active incidents, which is an 89% increase from the previous five-year period.<\/p>\n<p>The deadliest active shooting incident in 2023 was the Lewiston, Maine shooting, which left 18 dead in October 2023 after a gunman opened fire in two locations in the small Maine town.<\/p>\n<p>California had the largest number of active shooting incidents with eight. The locations of the shootings were open spaces, places of businesses and education centers.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement engaged in 12 incidents that resulted in the deaths of 13 law enforcement officials, the report said. In 58% of the incidents, the shooter had no connection to the location of the shooting, per the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Prezant\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Active shooter incidents in the U.S. declined by 4% from 2022 to 2023, according to new statistics released by the FBI on Monday. In 2023, the FBI designated 48 shootings as &#8220;active shooter incidents,&#8221; compared to 50 in 2022, according to the FBI\u2019s 2023<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/active-shooting-incidents-in-the-us-declined-by-4-from-2022-to-2023-fbi\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}