lol...it’s astonishing. The leftist publications just serving up what the GOVERNMENT tells them. They’re anything but critical thinking liberals. It’s why I only refer to them as ‘leftists’.
Choosing not to prosecute isn’t the same as crime not happening.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/analyzing-fbis-national-crime-data-2022-eye-toward-2023-trends
“This year’s report comes amidst a major transition in the way police agencies report crime data to the FBI. On January 1, 2021, the bureau stopped accepting crime data submitted by police agencies through its decades-old Summary Reporting System and instead asked all agencies to exclusively use a newer protocol called the National Incident-Based Reporting System.”