Kari Lake says Arizona was safer in 1994, but crime statistics say otherwise
In 1994, Arizona's violent crime rate was 703 per 100,000 residents, according to official FBI data provided by Jeff Asher, co-founder of AH Datalytics, a crime statistics research group. In 2023, the state’s violent crime rate was 409 per 100,000 residents. That’s a 42% decline in violent crime from when Lake first arrived in Arizona.