04-15-2021, 06:53 PM
(04-15-2021, 06:50 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I'm not cherry picking a damned thing, I gave you the link with the relevant data for all crimes
Yeah, it's not a big deal at all that murder rates have risen by as much as 33%. Let's put it this way, if your investment portfolio increased by 33% in one year, would you call that skyrocketing? In any event, you're now having a semantic argument. You prefer another adjective to "skyrocketing" fine. It doesn't change the main point at all.
Yes, it has been declining steadily, a point I have made several times myself. That is, it was until the last two years, which have seen increases in both. Whether the crime rate compares favorably to the early 2,000 is utterly meaningless as we're talking about current trends. You're introducing an irrelevancy like it helps your argument.
...is crime as a whole down or up?
Two years? Crime was down 18-19 in both property and violent crime.
