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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dems will believe anything.
Crime is up every where[/quote]

How do you know that "crime is up everywhere?"? What data is your claim based on? Please link.

The NYT articles based its story on the following data:

The data
The various sources of crime data — from government agencies and private groups — tell a consistent story. Retail theft has not spiked nationwide in the past several years. If anything, it appears less common in most of the country than it was before the pandemic.

The most up-to-date source is the shoplifting report published this month by the Council on Criminal Justice, which uses police data through the first half of 2023. The other sources go through only 2022.

The council tracks 24 major U.S. cities. Overall, shoplifting incidents were 16 percent higher in the first half of 2023 than the first half of 2019. When New York City is excluded, however, reported shoplifting incidents fell over the same time period. Out of the 24 cities, 17 reported decreases in shoplifting.

The shoplifting problem “is being talked about as if it’s much more widespread than it probably is,” said Sonia Lapinsky, a retail expert at the consulting firm AlixPartners.[/quote]

Yes let’s just exclude the highest shoplifting city then we can see there’s actually no increase in crime :)

It’s truly a fool’s errand to try to convince people that crime doesn’t exist when it obviously does. [/quote]

No one is saying that "crime doesn't exist." It exists everywhere--but not to the same degree in every single city or locality in this country of 340 million people. It is more precise to say "X [insert specific type of crime] has really increased in my neighborhood/community/city" than it is to say that crime--in general--has spiked everywhere at the same rate. Facts matter.[/quote]

So “crime is up only some places, not everywhere” is supposed to be a great campaign message for Democrats?[/quote]

Fear about crime is greatly exaggerated is… especially since trying to stoke fear about crime was such a big loser in the election this month.

Even Fox has laid off the fear mongering since then. [/quote]

Democrats are convincing nobody with the “you shouldn’t care about crime” line. It’s ridiculous spin. [/quote]

+1 No one is buying their BS[/quote]

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