jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 6:30 pm
RainbowsandUnicorns wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 4:25 pm
jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:25 pm
You are demonstrating the corrosive power of lies. Or, as some of our other friends around here might put it, gaslighting.
Here is the not so funny thing. MICH happens to be right that "it's not all that farfetched".
We all know there are REPORTED crimes and there are UNREPORTED crimes.
Not a single person on here knows for a fact if there has been a decrease (or an increase) in UNREPORTED crimes.
Forgetting what is (and isn't) reported to the police - which is what I believe we are discussing - I live in a city where politicians and powerful people have an influence on the media - and what is and isn't reported to the public.
Sorry boys and girls, crime very well may be down - but I sure as heck wouldn't bet a substantial amount of money on it - and my hope is neither would any of you.
I would
guess that a disproportionate amount of unreported crime involves people of particular demographics that are not of much interest to the folks.
I would "guess" that too.
You know what I wouldn't guess? From the story Trad provided the link to.....
"The preliminary figures in the FBI’s Quarterly Uniform Crime Report, which covers January through June, come with important limitations. For one, the bureau relies upon data voluntarily submitted by policing agencies.
The numbers released Monday were gathered from more than 14,800 of the just over 19,300 law enforcement agencies from across the country, according to the bureau. The new preliminary figures do not include data from Los Angeles and may only include partial figures from Chicago.
Crime analysts also say quarterly data is imprecise, as law enforcement agencies have the remainder of the year to audit and correct any reporting errors before final annual figures are published by the FBI".