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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One suspects, my good FRiend, that murders are anything but down, and guessing that they're way up.
"Reported" murders? Well, they might be down, as one further suspects that the blue cities and states are experts on how to manage crime stats and also news.
“Even as Violent Crime Drops”
Anyone who just takes a look around them knows that these are lies for political reasons.
It is all about conning people into re-electing Biden.
They’re also doing the David Dinkins “We’ll just not report the crimes, this will lower the crime rate” thing.
blm/antifa have slowed their activities....yet not buying the homicide rates tumbling.
funding for law enforcement is rising,
Dims realize the pushback against the lawlessness their Soros backed AGs is hurting their election chances.
and tensions between the police and communities of color, while still significant, are no longer at a boiling point.
Again, blm/antifa have been told to tone it down as have the black groups.
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.
And as reported on local newscasts.
I mean, when you go into a Target or Walmart and things are behind lock and key.....it is lawlessness.
Every bit fostered by the dims.
I read the British press to find out what’s happening here in Pravda controlled Amerika.
Violent crime is NOT dropping. Many police departments have stopped reporting their crime stats to the FBI, allowing the Dems to refer to the UCI as “proof” that lawlessness isn’t rampant under the deranged Biden regime.
Medical advancements and technology can wipe a potential “murder” off the board and it into an aggravated assault.
...which gets plea-bargained down to a misdemeanor "disturbing the peace" charge.
Ta da! Violent crime rates are down. Trust us.
Great point
“and more critically crime has moved out of the inner cities and into the suburbs.”
Even into the small rural towns. Our little city of 3,500 has had catalytic converter thefts, burglaries, drug dealing, and a police car was torched last year.
Their crime stats are clearly propaganda.
We can watch the Chicago weekend numbers. They haven’t gone
down at all.
We are hearing of spectacular crimes and crime sprees all
over the nation.
We have criminals from all over the world pouring in and yet,
we’re told regular citizens have been so good, that not even
all the crimes the newbies have been committing, could keep
the crime numbers up.
Anyone buying that logic?
And remember in the blue cities virtually ALL of the police forces lost thousands of cops through early retirement or resignation and the China Virus vax.
Even as Violent Crime Drops,Lawlessness Rises as an Election Issue
:NeverTrumpin':
Most likely violent crime rate isn’t dropping...they are not reporting much of it. The statistics are bad data. When no-integrity people are in positions of authority there is very little that you should believe from them.
“Remember when you were mugged? That never happened”
“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 feds have never required local police departments to report violent crime — that has always been voluntary. You are correct that big democratic cities do not report crime stats to the FB!. In fact, 40% of LEO agencies nationwide do not report crime stats to the FBI.
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