Posted on 05/26/2024 11:43:30 AM PDT by KingofZion
*** Homicide rates are tumbling from pandemic highs in most cities, funding for law enforcement is rising, and tensions between the police and communities of color, while still significant, are no longer at a boiling point. But property crime, carjackings and smash-and-grab burglaries are up, adding to a sense of lawlessness, amplified on social media and local online message boards.
*** White House officials believe the numbers are decidedly on their side, even if in some cities rates of violent crime remain elevated from prepandemic levels. But for now, polls suggest the public is less focused on the areas of documentable progress than on the lingering problems — much like with the economy, where the cumulative impact of inflation overshadows a statistical improvement to standards of living.
*** Nonetheless, polls suggest that many voters share some of Mr. Trump’s pessimistic views on crime: Most people believe lawlessness is on the rise, in a general sense, even if they say that things are not quite as bad in their own lives or neighborhoods.
Sixty-three percent of Americans said that crime was “extremely or very serious” in the country, while fewer, 17 percent, said the situation was deteriorating in their own neighborhoods, according to the annual Gallup survey on crime released in November. The trend is not new, but the overall sense that the country is spiraling out of control has intensified in recent years, spurred by the omnipresence of shocking accounts of crime on social media and hyperlocal neighborhood message boards.
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If Trump campaign is smart they will follow the Nixon playbook and make crime and overseas unrest the #1 issues (plus inflation).
Crime is not recorded when laws are not enforced.
I don’t believe for a minute anything is down. It’s just not being addressed and prosecuted.
Yup- when rogue DA’s are letting violent criminals back on the street rather than prosecute crimes, the numbers will obviously drop
It used to be a FBI requirement that police departments report violent crime. Biden dropped that requirement so now most of the big Democratic cities will not report those crimes to the FBI. Ta da! Violent crime rates are miraculously down.
The cops and the government are juking the stats.
When you ignore violent crime it does not mean that it has dropped.
Does anyone believe the Times?
I think we all are seeing it when we go shopping and see certain items are locked up behind glass.
That makes an impression on all of us regardless of what the official crime statistics say.
Retailers would not be locking up items if they didn’t face issues with criminal stealing their merchandise.
IMO the number one crime besides illegal aliens entering the US is shoplifting. It’s gotten to where lowlifes think it’s a right.
This is the NY Times carrying water for the democrazies.
Can’t believe anything they report.
Correct.
Also a change in reporting requirements so that many crimes aren’t included in FBI statistics.
There’s a reason only the most thick-headed people among us believe the media/government.
Even as Violent Crime Drops,“
Total BS from the lying rats at NYT
Violent crime has a tendency to drop when you stop recording it.
There were multiple videos on Twitter yesterday of a despondent James Carville saying, "The Democrats' message is s**t!"
The only reason “murder is down” is cops carry trauma packs and first responders have gotten so good at saving gunshot victims.
“...much like with the economy, where the cumulative impact of inflation overshadows a statistical improvement to standards of living.”
It’s not hard to believe that murders are down from 2020 which was an absolutely bloodbath in the black community.
Is there a Republican think tank out there that routinely checks crime and economic data issued, i.e., made-up, by the Democrats?
Ha, ha the Bee is funny.. oh wait!
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