[Professional]

People very often get robbed today and don’t bother reporting. I had my car broken into and since I know the cops don’t give a rats ....

[cgbg]

This question should be on the citizenship test:

Black and hispanic males between the ages of 15 and 35 commit __% of reported crimes in the United States.

(Good luck finding the data, or reading about it in the mass media.)

[Lurkinanloomin]

More guns, less crime.

[kosciusko51]

Another fact:

A vast majority of violent crime occurs in strongly Democrat districts. Ironically, these are the areas typically with the strictest gun control laws.

[econjack]

And while Chicago has drawn widespread attention for its soaring murder total in recent years, its murder rate in 2018 – about 21 murders and non-negligent manslaughters per 100,000 residents – was less than half of the rates in St. Louis (about 61 per 100,000) and Baltimore (about 51 per 100,000). The FBI notes that various factors might influence a particular area’s crime rate, including its population density and economic conditions.

What thing do all of those cities have in common? Seems to me there's a huge elephant in the room that no one wants to see.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I would think that

#1 DNA has completely revolutionized violent crime and police work.

#2 Surveillance Society has been the undoing of the moron class of criminal.

[Ransomed]

There’s a bunch of theories why all violent crime has dramatically decreased in the past several decades. Have no idea if any of them are true or not.

I’ve heard:

Corresponds to the leaded gas/pipes/paints bans and replacements.

Corresponds to abortion becoming legal. The poorest populations are usually the most likely to commit violent crime, also the most likely to have abortions. Inner cities have had the highest abortion rates.

Corresponds to increase in obesity. Fat inactive people don’t commit as much violence I guess.

Corresponds to decrease in outdoor activity and increase in electronic entertainment options. Sitting at home watching TV and playing video games instead of getting bored and entertaining themselves on the street.

Freegards

[GOPJ]

Violent Crime fell in Florida FELL dramatically AFTER conceal carry was passed... More guns - less crime...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Guns,_Less_Crime

More Guns, Less Crime is a book by John Lott that says violent crime rates go down when states pass “shall issue” concealed carry laws. He presents the results of his statistical analysis of crime data for every county in the United States during 29 years from 1977 to 2005. Each edition of the book was refereed by the University of Chicago Press. The book examines city, county and state level data from the entire United States and measures the impact of 13 different types of gun control laws on crime rates. The book expands on an earlier study published in 1997 by Lott and his co-author David Mustard in The Journal of Legal Studies[1] and by Lott and his co-author John Whitley in The Journal of Law and Economics, October 2001.[2]

[Midwesterner53]

20 years ago our car was stolen out of the driveway. The county cops never even came out, took a short report over the phone and I never heard from them or the car again.

[Midwesterner53]

They forgot number 6: Crime is still heavily concentrated in one ethnic group, both committing and receiving criminal actions.

[A_perfect_lady]

So, if you put them all together it says that REPORTED crimes are down (1-2), but people say crime is up, (3) and crimes are not being REPORTED (5).

So yes, this all goes together quite nicely. Crimes are up, and people know it, and they don't bother reporting it anymore so that's why the stats are down.

[SamuraiScot]

Hasn't the birth rate been tanking over the past 50 years? And wouldn't that mean that today there is a smaller proportion of young men in our population than was the case a half-century ago? And don't young men commit basically all the crimes (other than abortion)?

I'm not saying a low birth rate is a good thing--it's suicidal for a country, actually--but it would drive down the crime rate 15 to 20 years later.