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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There has to be a way to stop crime without resorting to racist policing policies. Our leaders MUST find a way.[/quote]

I don’t agree with defunding the police but I think changes can certainly be made. [b]I also don’t think the pandemic helped[/b]. [/quote]

Can you be specific? Crime has trended up in DC for the past [b]4[/b] years.[/quote]

One of my first jobs was being a teacher in DC. I don’t think being out of in person school for over a year helped kids like my former students stay away from joining gangs, for example.

I think it’s a fact - not my opinion - that crime is up all over the country right now. [/quote]

No, crime is up in [i]urban areas[/i] run by democrats. [/quote]

Outside of homicides, inner-city crime reporting data is not in any way accurate. And even when homicides decline, you have to look at the entire metro areas to see if they really declined or if a % just moved into inner-ring suburbs. In addition, police response in the suburbs is 5 minutes for every call, resident are busy bodies who call for everything, and everything is actually pursued. In contrast to a major city, 911 response can be upwards of hours (if they even bother showing up) and apathetic pursuit of crimes. So not only are countless reports not written, after a while people just don't bother calling 911.  And when police do show up in inner-cities, they often treat residents like crap. I was mugged in college in an inner-city (not D.C.) and the police laughed at my girlfriends and basically blamed us. When we asked if they'll be pursuing it they basically called us idiots and said this isn't a TV show. Behavior like this makes city residents just not bother calling 911 anymore, like, what's the point? Plus they manipulate the stats, change definitions and categories, and prosecutors drop charges; all kinds of juking and manipulation games being played with inner-city crime data.

Again, about the only category you can trust is the homicide tally.[/quote]

This person is 100% correct. Homicide data is the only stat you can trust when looking at urban crime trends can not be manufactured because they’re cross checked by the FBI and you usually can’t make dead bodies disappear. So much crime goes unreported, is reclassified as a lesser offense to please superior officers and to juke the stats, etc.[/quote]

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