Importing this @volts.wtf thread from the bad place. It opens with a link to a piece that used official data to establish that yes, crime rates are indeed very much down recently. But here’s the thing, Project 2025’s Trump 2.0 promises to destroy that world in which we can “know” things like this.
Meanwhile, John Lott is promoting the idea that FBI crime data is already unreliable. Presumably to justify sending the National Guard into cities to fight a phantom crime wave.
crimeresearch.org/2024/04/how-...
