> In the 12 months since she ordered scaled-back enforcement, violent crime is down 20 percent and property crime has declined 36 percent... <
Could it be that the new program is working? Or could it be that some serious crimes are simply being recategorized? (For example, an assault is booked as disorderly conduct.)
Oh, wait. There is a third possibility. Maybe city officials are outright lying to us.
I’m thinking it’s the third option.
“Oh, wait. There is a third possibility. Maybe city officials are outright lying to us.”
Maybe?
They are liberals. As they say, “Argh, the truth, the truth...it hurts us.”
And they will continue to say and do that until the truth HURTS them.
If you ever watched “The Wire” you know how “crime rates” work.
Could it be that tyrannical COVID hysteria manages to keep some more of the thugs inside?
There goes your decline. It wasn’t until the riots all over caterwauling about BLM that crime started going up again and the killings definitely started going up.