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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]

Over the 4th of July weekend, my quiet hometown's police department's Facebook page was blasting multiple photos of a single bicycle thief (from an open garage). Meaning not only did they care, but a detective actually took the time to compile evidence from multiple homeowners in the vicinity. And the detective caught him! Imagine any inner-city police department pursuing a single bicycle theft![/quote]

+1. Longtime DC residents may not realize this, but there are lots of places in the US where law enforcement actually tries to catch criminals and hold them accountable. [/quote]

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