“A month of people deciding to kill fewer people doesn’t mean anyone has done anything right.”
It probably means they’ve either stopped self-reporting to the FBI database or they’ve (like Marion Barry) redefined what constitutes homicide.
True enough. Stats are easy to manipulate.
Where they want the murder rate to be high they can create it through artificial means. Detroit is an open carry city with a very high “Justified Homicide” rate but those defensive killings are simply counted as murder. (The murder rate is high but not as high as we think it is)