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Naturally politicians are going to try and minimize their shortcomings and that alone is nothing new or surprising.
However crime is clearly on the rise in many urban areas almost all run by Democrats for decades, yet they are all saying the same thing, that crime is down.
I was watching this video where a man was killed on the subway, and in the report it said 11 days prior someone was killed on the subway and multiple people were shot.
Yet the head of the transit department said crime was down if February compared to last year. Aside from the fact the month is not over, how many killings/shooting occurred last February, as it had to be at least 3 if the guy was telling the truth.
I know NYC is a cesspool of crime, drugs, and degradation, but I didn't think multiple people get killed every month riding the subway.
One of the guys in the report said he lived in NY back when the crack epidemic was occurring, and things are worse today than ever. So how are these politicians bamboozling the people in these cities to not believe their own eyes and ears?
I think that violent crime actually is down but property crimes are way up. Haven't gone digging for the data myself but pretty sure based on what I've seen cited in the gun debates.
When politicians make claims like this, the words they use are very carefully chosen. Look at those words, not the overall message they're trying to send. Take them very literally, in other words, and you'll usually find qualifiers which limit the scope of what they're talking about to a single statistic. Find that and you'll find what they're referring to while they knowingly feed a completely different impression to the more casual observers.
Naturally politicians are going to try and minimize their shortcomings and that alone is nothing new or surprising.
However crime is clearly on the rise in many urban areas almost all run by Democrats for decades, yet they are all saying the same thing, that crime is down.
I was watching this video where a man was killed on the subway, and in the report it said 11 days prior someone was killed on the subway and multiple people were shot.
Yet the head of the transit department said crime was down if February compared to last year. Aside from the fact the month is not over, how many killings/shooting occurred last February, as it had to be at least 3 if the guy was telling the truth.
I know NYC is a cesspool of crime, drugs, and degradation, but I didn't think multiple people get killed every month riding the subway.
One of the guys in the report said he lived in NY back when the crack epidemic was occurring, and things are worse today than ever. So how are these politicians bamboozling the people in these cities to not believe their own eyes and ears?
Literally due to the fact crime is largely down. There were 386 murders in NYC in 2023, down over the past few years and down significantly from the peak in 1990.
IIRC, crime statistics are kept by the FBI. But that is contingent on the information available from cities.
Harris county has a dashboard on the county website that tells all kinds of activity from the Sheriff, constables, courts. Arrest, bail, jail, all court activity is there. Bet most counties have the same info available.
if you don’t trust the mayors, do you trust the info they get from cops?
Creative statistics and redefining categories of crime. Cherry picking even that data.
Recall when Corey bookers' team claimed the newark murder rate was halted because of Spartacus's policies. Turned out Newark, NJ had an unbroken streak of a murder a month since the early 1960s. So in March of CB's term a murder was not yet recorded. Not that there wasn;t one, just had not been officially recorded. So based on one slight of hand of a N of !, booker tried to claim a success. Later under booker the murder rate rose to about 2 a week and Newark was claimed to be the carjacking capitol of the country. Those were tamer times.
Activist prosecutors help out by having felons plea down to misdemeanors so they can claim felonies/violent crimes are down.
As the saying goes ; "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with B---S--- !
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