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Originally Posted by logicbomb
The best example to see how useless stats are right now is to see how armed robberies are referred to as arm shoplifting now which is seen as petty crime.
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I was going to say the same. Crime hasn't gone down but it has been re-categorized under less menacing categories to tell a false story. In Portland they had 150 days of violent anarch and their Downtown was literally a no-go zone, but it got labeled "mostly peaceful protesting" in official records. Same shit here, just different packaging.
The unfortunate thing here is that the plight of Downtown is making living more expensive in the safe suburbs as people are fleeing here. Some are also leaving altogether. There was recently a story of some recent immigrants that had been shocked by the violence and were looking to move on to another country. I cannot deny that same places like Singapore seem more appealing by the day...
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