Good news on crime

Violent crime is down significantly from last year, as is property crime with the exception of motor vehicle theft. The fall has the same broad dispersion that the pandemic crime wave had (conservative and liberal, small and big cities, rural areas and towns, etc.)

Click here for link at https://jasher.substack.com/p/crime-in-2023-murder-plummeted

Replies:

Not in Chicago (link) - airborneirish 2023-12-31 19:12:07
There's too much crime, and I blame it on society... - Kbyrnes 2023-12-29 13:36:31
So crime WAS up in 2021 and it wasn't our imagination? * - airborneirish 2023-12-29 11:02:43
- It’s made up - JMAC76 2023-12-29 13:44:51
Policing data - ndsapper 2023-12-29 09:49:34
- I'm in DC as well - AquinasDomer 2023-12-29 10:35:50
  - That’s DC being DC. Nothing new. Always incompetent * - MDDomer 2023-12-29 10:37:53
    - DC had a crime trend that compared - AquinasDomer 2023-12-29 10:44:50
      - Capitols/Wizards leaving - ndsapper 2023-12-29 18:37:15
      - Wasn’t really referring to crime rates but DC being - MDDomer 2023-12-29 11:25:29
      - DC definitely feels like trending in wrong direction. - Brahms 2023-12-29 10:51:59
In fairness, link says it's a return to recent rates - SixShutouts66 2023-12-28 22:27:21
- To be fair it was the largest one year drop - AquinasDomer 2023-12-28 23:07:21
  - Any thoughts on the reason for the drop - SixShutouts66 2023-12-28 23:40:11
    - A lot has to be post pandemic normalization - AquinasDomer 2023-12-29 00:11:44