This is actually a crucial point that no one ever talks about.
Part of the reason that recent crime statistics have — in fact — gone down is because most larger cities have effectively “decriminalized crime“. For the purposes of crime statistics, when victims do not report burglaries, assaults, and even rape, these crimes did not occur. Many jurisdictions have made theft legal (where I live, you can shoplift $950 without being charged), and have reduced what used to be felony assaults to misdemeanors — which means that all those crimes are effectively “wiped clean“ from the statistics, despite the fact that they actually occurred causing harm to the victims.
It’s a form of criminal law gaslighting: there’s far more crime actually happening on the streets, but it’s not reflected in the statistics, so big blue cities can pretend that it’s simply not happening (which means they can brag that their woke policies are working).
As someone who lived in San Francisco, and had various thefts, there is another phenomenon, since people stop bothering to report crime because why make the effort. So it is not just changing the statistics. The only statistic I think is credible is murder, since police can't ignore it and (mostly) there is a dead body so hard to mess up the counting.
Even the statistics on murder are not reliable because Soros-backed prosecutors routinely reduce murder charges to manslaughter/aggravated assault/criminal negligence causing bodily harm, etc. — and this doesn’t even include defendants who plead to a lesser charge (even though they would have been charged with murder by an old-school DA.
When a DA has “social justice” as the primary mission, we can’t even expect “murder” to be charged as such, even when there is a corpse.
Crime statistics are reported by police departments. What DA decides to charge a defendant with has no bearing on the Uniform Crime Reporting system. The crime reported is whatever the investigating officer chooses.
I get crime mapping emails nightly that I e set up a two mile radius from my place. Three days ago there were 3 then the next night 2 and last night 1. On average before was like 25-45 and a few were over 100. Yet I see many reports on citizen app in my area.
Burglary reports? They are on the way to becoming extinct from what I hear.
Right, if you don't report it, it didn't happen.
This is actually a crucial point that no one ever talks about.
Part of the reason that recent crime statistics have — in fact — gone down is because most larger cities have effectively “decriminalized crime“. For the purposes of crime statistics, when victims do not report burglaries, assaults, and even rape, these crimes did not occur. Many jurisdictions have made theft legal (where I live, you can shoplift $950 without being charged), and have reduced what used to be felony assaults to misdemeanors — which means that all those crimes are effectively “wiped clean“ from the statistics, despite the fact that they actually occurred causing harm to the victims.
It’s a form of criminal law gaslighting: there’s far more crime actually happening on the streets, but it’s not reflected in the statistics, so big blue cities can pretend that it’s simply not happening (which means they can brag that their woke policies are working).
As someone who lived in San Francisco, and had various thefts, there is another phenomenon, since people stop bothering to report crime because why make the effort. So it is not just changing the statistics. The only statistic I think is credible is murder, since police can't ignore it and (mostly) there is a dead body so hard to mess up the counting.
Even the statistics on murder are not reliable because Soros-backed prosecutors routinely reduce murder charges to manslaughter/aggravated assault/criminal negligence causing bodily harm, etc. — and this doesn’t even include defendants who plead to a lesser charge (even though they would have been charged with murder by an old-school DA.
When a DA has “social justice” as the primary mission, we can’t even expect “murder” to be charged as such, even when there is a corpse.
Crime statistics are reported by police departments. What DA decides to charge a defendant with has no bearing on the Uniform Crime Reporting system. The crime reported is whatever the investigating officer chooses.
'Newspeak' - Without a word for freedom, for example, the concept of freedom cannot exist.
I get crime mapping emails nightly that I e set up a two mile radius from my place. Three days ago there were 3 then the next night 2 and last night 1. On average before was like 25-45 and a few were over 100. Yet I see many reports on citizen app in my area.
In parts of CA, if the police did not see the crime themselves, it did not happen.
Atlanta has been deep sixing murder reports for decades, and the FBI knows it....
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And that's why they can report "crime is down".