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The FBI recently released its annual crime statistics report and the report was not good for Quincy. 

Far from good as a matter of fact.

While crime was up by 34% in Braintree, it was down by 12% in Weymonth, and up roughly 4% statewide whereas crime in the Q was up by 9% in 2022 from 2021 levels and thus up by more than twice the statewide increase.

Further troubling, violent crime in Quincy was 36% higher than the statewide average in 2022 on a per 100,000 population basis.

Conversely, as well as further troubling for Quincy residents, crime nationally was conversely down by 1.6% in 2022 from 2021.

Breakouts by crime categorizes are further troubling with Aggravated Assault up by 35%, Sexual Assault up by 26% and Total Violent Crime up by 33% in Quincy in 2022 from 2021 levels.

Wanted, accountable — whatever …
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Additionally, homicides doubled in 2022 from 2021; however, it is only fair as well as proper to note that homicides in Quincy have bounced between one and two annually in recent years and thus the doubling in 2022 is more a matter of misleading big percentage changes when small numbers are involved than indicative of grave concerns. 

So far anyway.

At the same time, Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s talking up his record on public safety this election year when the facts stubbornly show that crime is a serious as well as seriously growing problem in Quincy is at least disingenuous, if not also at least approaching the realm of spinning of a false narrative.

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