Can I pick apart the abject stupidity of the statement above? Of COURSE crime rates were reduced -- that's what happens when you stop arresting and prosecuting people for them! DUH!!!
Yes, this is utter BS. What what else should we expect in the age of fake news?
If low level crimes are not prosecuted, then people will stop reporting them. Thus, REPORTED crime will go down.
“Can I pick apart the abject stupidity of the statement above? Of COURSE crime rates were reduced — that’s what happens when you stop arresting and prosecuting people for them! DUH!!!”
Yeah, refuse to make arrests of criminals and then say the crime rate has decreased. The rot is pretty thorough in Baltimore.
According to the article, it was other crimes, "violent crime is down 20 percent and property crime has declined 36 percent" that were reduced. Whether they're telling the truth or not is another matter, but they weren't talking about reductions in drug arrests.
Stop arresting will reduce crime rate....Duh..
I don’t think it’s that. You can register a crime without finding the perp.
Most likely the reason crime fell is that the pandemic made it more difficult to commit crimes. People are at home. Businesses are closed. People weren’t driving. People and businesses did not have as much money to steal.
The declining crime rate was a trend repeated across the nation. It had nothing to do with her particular prosecution policies.
It’s just like graduation rates in inner city (black) schools. Lower the standards and EVERYONE is a winner. Remember that one school where every student had straight As and got accepted to prestigious colleges only to find out they were illiterate?