Blue cities should point to these data and continue to defund the police, increase thresholds for arrests, reduce sentences/offer timed served for various crimes. Follow the science!The decrease has been going on for 50ish years. So are you saying that the recent soft on crime policies in liberal areas over the past few years is responsible for the decreased crime rates over several decades? Despite the long term downward trend, there has been an increase over the past few years, as reported by the people that you say are presenting biased results. The soft on crime policies have not resulted in less crime reported, they have resulted in less convictions, so your argument does not hold water. I could get on board with the idea that the data is skewed, one way or the other, but if it’s skewed lower then it’s all skewed lower and the point remains that over the decades crime has decreased.
This is getting pretty far from the fact that whataburgers issues are not related to less people going to church these days.