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“Crime is down” isn’t a very engaging news story so it doesn’t get talked about enough.
Crime is up on Fox News.
It’s amazing how if you ask the Boomers I know, they’ll tell you that cities are terrifying and riddled with crime every few feet. But when you actually go a city, it’s pretty normal. Maybe a bit less foot traffic and a few more unhoused people than pre-COVID, but still pretty much the same. Definitely not the war zone they describe!
Anecdotal, but I moved from a rural area to an urban area 3 years ago and everyone told me that I’d need to get “street smart” and to be aware of my surroundings at all times, yet I’ve never had an issue. I mostly just get people who want to pet my dog. And I moved to an area that historically has been “the ghetto” but it turns out that it’s just a minority population who loves gardening and church. It’s honestly a great, wholesome area of folks who are just trying to get by with their own personal flair. I do occasionally see homeless folks who are actively doing crack or heroin on the trails but they never engage beyond a “Hello, can I pet your dog?” Or “Can I bum a cigarette?”. Shootings and crime are way down from 10 years ago and I feel perfectly safe walking my pup at night.
All the crime is concentrated in a one block area of Palm Beach, FL these days.
Damn Biden and his low crime.
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probably because there’s so much more unreported crime.
In the last year I’ve had both my cat and house broken into(I was gone to stop that one) and never reported either. They would take a day to show up, write down some bullshit notes, then never do anything. Someone just went through my neighbors garage and she did call the cops. They didn’t even take a report because she left the garage door pen therefore it wasn’t breaking and entering, not even trespassing since she doesn’t have a no trespassing sign.
In the last year I’ve had both my cat and house broken into
What sort of sick fuck breaks into a cat!? That poor thing!
How did they break into your cat? Was it a Being John Malkovich thing? Or was it a Ray Palmer in the Amazon jungle, Sword of the Atom, yellow aliens thing?
Why would there be more unreported crime today when everyone can report things from anywhere and so many people have video cameras vs. the 80s when crime stats peaked?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“It suggests that when we get the final data in October, we will have seen likely the largest one-year decline in murder that has ever been recorded,” said Jeff Asher, a former CIA analyst who now studies crime trends.
Asher and other experts say the biggest factor behind the drop in crime may simply be the resumption of anti-crime initiatives by local governments and courts that had stopped during the pandemic.
“After a terrible period of underfunding and understaffing caused by the pandemic, local governments have, by most measures, returned to pre-pandemic levels,” wrote John Roman, a criminologist at the University of Chicago.
“Since then, our prosecutors, agents, and grant-making experts have worked in close partnership with police departments and communities across the country to go after the recidivists and gangs that are responsible for the greatest violence; to seize illegal guns and deadly drugs; to make critical investments in hiring more law enforcement officers; and to fund evidence-based, community violence intervention initiatives,” he said.
As NBC News previously reported, the drop in crime does not appear to be well understood by large majorities of Americans, according to polls.
“The perception doesn’t match the actuality in a lot of places because people are bad at perceiving risk,” Asher said, adding that both traditional and social media tend to spotlight violence and disorder.
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