Plot twist... in many cities...
Reported crimes and arrests for crimes went way down... ?
Distorting stats?
Yes it no?
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Reported crimes and arrests for crimes went way down… ?
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/12/the-benefits-of-fewer-nypd-arrests/384126/
https://jacobin.com/2020/06/nypd-police-slowdown-defund-demilitarize
https://reason.com/2017/09/26/study-finds-nypd-slowdown-in-petty-law-e/
We've been in a deliberate organized police-union led slowdown for years now. One of the curious upshots of the slowdown has been that fewer arrests have not led to an increase in gross reported crimes. However, it has resulted in a handful of known bad actors engaging in repeated criminal actions without fear of arrest.
So we get a dicotomy - falling crime data overall indicating an aging population less prone to violent crime, but a plethora of "repeat offender" stories that highlight how existing police institutions have basically given up doing anything other than collecting a paycheck.
This is Biden’s biggest problem. A big chunk of people watch Fox News when they just say how bad Biden is over and over and over ad nauseam.
Propaganda works.
A big chunk of people watch Fox News
Sinclair Media and Clear Channel Communications have a near-monopoly on local TV and radio news networks. NPR is increasingly dominated by AEI goons and associated corporate flakes. There's still a substantial amount of money to be made selling people door cams and home security systems and school/office metal detectors and private security services.
So we get a steady diet of "Crime Rates Skyrocketing!" from even the most benign-seeming news agencies that need advertising revenue and corporate patronage to exist.
Crime rates have been dropping steadily since the mid-90s.
But "It Bleeds, It Leads" news coverage hasn't meaningfully abated since the heyday.
So you get failing crime rates, but a steady diet of crime journalism, crime TV drama, and hysterical crime "breaking news" headlines (Missing White Lady Syndrome, police blotter local news reports, True Crime podcasts, vague angry rants from AM Radio news jockeys).
What am I supposed to believe? Your occasional odd statistics? Or my endlessly bombarded ears/eyes?