Amazing how poor this article is. While attempting to dunk on Newsom, Breitbart goes on to use stats to prove him correct while ending with this anecdote “But crime is climbing in California, as residents well know.” Wow. Facts don’t care about your feelings, Breitbart.
California has an issue with law enforcement hiring and DA prosecuting crime.
I’m not surprised reported crime is down.
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I mean is it? The problem is the data relies on reports and police stopped taking reports for many crimes.
Murders are only slightly down. Fewer crimes are reported, but I doubt the crime rate is down.
Here is another article on the topic.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_fb6c38a4-6d35-11ee-b6dc-5fe65340f77c.html
Looking at SF, it’s a shit show and I doubt that hasn’t carried over in to other areas. Many of my friends on the force left for other states because they said crime was increasing faster than they could keep up with it.
I don’t know the answer but it doesn’t pass the sniff test. Murder is a good indicator of total crimes because they are hard not to report.