sj_zero on Nostr: It's a magic trick on several levels. first, there's more than one crime, so homocide ...

It's a magic trick on several levels.

first, there's more than one crime, so homocide numbers don't actually mean anything in the context of crime overall. There's thefts, there's assaults, there's burglaries, there's robberies, people don't want crimes occurring, there's no particular focus on murder. The fact that one particular crime drops doesn't mean crime is dropping, it just means that the one is down.

Second, of the remaining crimes, a lot of them specifically have been messed with in ways that make the numbers go down but not the number of crimes. In California the cops won't even come if the dollar amount of thefts is below a certain threshold, so why even bother reporting it? The number of crimes reported goes down while the number of crimes goes up.

Finally, the negative consequences of government policy are resulting in more crimes that nobody with a heart is going to report. There are tent cities showing up in previously wealthy cities around the world as people are driven from their homes by poverty (while friends of politicians become richer than ever). They gotta go somewhere, most people aren't so heartless as to report the giant mass of various crimes that is this.

Meanwhile, the powers that be push news stories like this, hoping people believe the newspapers instead of their eyes and ears. All it's doing in my opinion is driving newspapers our of business because nobody wants to pay to be lied to.