{"id":1848876,"date":"2023-02-16T07:03:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T12:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848876"},"modified":"2023-02-16T07:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T12:04:56","slug":"is-crime-going-down-or-have-democrat-run-cities-just-given-up-on-reporting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-crime-going-down-or-have-democrat-run-cities-just-given-up-on-reporting-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Crime Going Down, Or Have Democrat-Run Cities Just Given Up On Reporting It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-crime-going-down-or-have-democrat-run-cities-just-given-up-on-reporting-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Even though gangs are increasingly targeting gun-toting, carjacking, and mugging people in major cities, 100,000 Americans die from fentanyl poisoning every year. Mass murders happen with alarming regularity. Unfortunately, partisanship can have a significant impact on perceptions of crime. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/polling-matters\/405371\/crime-american-public-opinion-election.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallup research<\/a> Republicans perceive crime more as a problem when a Democrat is President, and vice versa when a Republican is elected to the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Public safety is a national topic that is plagued by conflicting narratives and inadequate information. It is difficult to find a political consensus about what should be done. Even as <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/opinion\/polling-matters\/405371\/crime-american-public-opinion-election.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallup\u2019s polling<\/a> This belief is evident in \u201ccrime is increasing locally is now at the highest point,\u201d It notes: \u201cIn absolute terms, Americans have for decades exhibited a marked tendency to say that crime is increasing rather than decreasing, year in and year out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult enough that public perception of crime is often untethered from reality, it\u2019s even worse when the government agencies that are supposed to report, gather, and analyze crime are failing at an alarming rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nonprofit that advocates left-leaning criminal law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarshallproject.org\/2022\/10\/08\/the-problem-with-the-fbi-s-missing-crime-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Marshall Project<\/a>, in commenting on the FBI\u2019s annual release of crime statistics last November, noted, \u201cThe nation\u2019s most thorough crime data collection program concluded it\u2019s possible crime went up, went down or stayed the same.\u201d Why is there so much uncertainty? It \u201clargely stems from the fact that 2021\u2019s data was more incomplete than any in recent memory. \u2026 This year about 7,000 police agencies, covering about 35% of the U.S. population were missing.\u201d The Justice Department just made an estimate in order to fix the large gaps in the data from large metropolitan areas like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some cases,\u201d Marshall noted: \u201cthe FBI didn\u2019t even have enough information to make an estimation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is the significance of so many missing arrest data files? There are two reasons. First, the FBI finally switched over fully to a new system of reporting, the National Incident-Based Reporting System. The FBI had been accepting data in a format that was nearly 100 years old, and 2021 was the first year the reports from police departments \u2014 entirely voluntary \u2014 had to be in the new format. But there\u2019s another disturbing reason some police departments don\u2019t report data: It could make them or the left-wing politicians overseeing them look bad.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FBI didn&#8217;t publish state-level violent crime statistics for California, Florida and Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland. New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico. Additionally, West Region had no estimate of violent crimes and murders. Thus, when some, mostly on the left, argue that crime is going down, it\u2019s a highly suspect claim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/about\/staff\/julie-warren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Julie Warren<\/a>My Texas Public Policy Foundation colleague, who serves as the deputy director. <a href=\"https:\/\/rightoncrime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Right on the Crime<\/a> Initiative, concerning persistent non-reporting by police departments of crime data. She suggested that a non reporting department such as the San Francisco Police Department might be discouraged from reporting arrests, because the district attorney does not want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competing narratives and poor information plague national discourse about public safety, making it difficult to reach a political consensus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":1848879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[5037,7204,10372,4010,7454,10832],"class_list":["post-1848876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-cities","tag-crime","tag-democrat-run","tag-down","tag-it","tag-reporting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}