[TChad]

Here's a Powerline blog article about an amazing series of Twitter posts describing how the San Francisco police avoid dealing with auto theft.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/02/is-california-starting-to-spiral-the-drain.php

[j. earl carter]

Here's a Powerline blog article...describing how the San Francisco police avoid dealing with auto theft.

Colin Flaherty often points out that this is done mostly to make the statistics look good. By making it difficult to file a police report, many crimes don't get reported, and crime rates go down. The measure of police success is low crime rates, so, this is just a good business practice for the cops.

I've heard that you should always look primarily at homicide rates if you want to know if crime is increasing or decreasing. Since the police pretty much have to take a police report when death is involved, it's much harder to fudge the numbers.