This is PER capita. More crimes are committed but we add a couple million people every year. They repeat the same lie locally here.
Every single day our local news reports multiple shootings, car jacking, home invasions.
I know. It’s like we all know that crime is up a minimum or 1,000% based on the msm reporting. School shootings at least 3 per hour. Solution to school shootings? Close the schools. They aren’t giving very good ROI for the most part these days anyway.