{"id":1849034,"date":"2023-02-16T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1849034"},"modified":"2023-02-16T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T13:40:53","slug":"have-democrat-run-cities-given-up-on-reporting-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/have-democrat-run-cities-given-up-on-reporting-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Democrat-Run Cities Given Up On Reporting Crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fhave-democrat-run-cities-given-up-on-reporting-crime%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=1849034&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<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/4537647699_eb87fedf0a_h.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\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>National discussions about public safety are plagued by competing narratives and insufficient information. It&#8217;s difficult to come up with a consensus political solution. 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 all the 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 for large cities such New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some cases,\u201d Marshall observed, \u201cthe FBI didn\u2019t even have enough information to make an estimation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why is there so much missing data about arrests? There are two reasons. The FBI finally switched over fully to a new reporting method, 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. The entire West region did not have an estimate for violent crimes, murders and aggravated attacks. 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 and deputy director, Jeremy, is my colleague. <a href=\"https:\/\/rightoncrime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Right on Crime<\/a> initiative about police departments&#8217; persistent non-reporting crime data. She said that a non-reporting department, such as the San Francisco Police Department, could be dissuaded from reporting arrests because the district attorney refuses to press charges on most arrestees, resulting in a dismal closure rate for the department \u2014 100 suspects arrested, three charged, one convicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Until he was recalled in a July 8, 2022, election, San Francisco\u2019s DA was Soros-backed radical leftist Chesa Boudin. It is easy to imagine that the San Francisco PD would simply throw in the towel on any of the most egregious crimes committed in the City by The Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soros DAs also run many other major prosecutorial offices. Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia are all affected. New York, Baltimore and Albuquerque are all in danger. Three urban counties in Northern Virginia have seen an increase in crime because DAs allow the accused to walk quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, there\u2019s a big overlap between entities that don\u2019t report crime statistics to the FBI and Soros prosecutors \u2014 no report, no crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, even with the incomplete 2021 FBI crime statistics showing what appears to be little change in crime rates from 2020 \u2014 murder up 4 percent, overall violent crime down 1 percent \u2014 only half of violent crimes are even reported. In addition to the FBI\u2019s arrest database, since 1973, the Justice Department runs a <a href=\"https:\/\/bjs.ojp.gov\/data-collection\/ncvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">separate crime victimization survey<\/a>. This lesser-known measure consistently shows higher rates of violent crimes than what law enforcement agencies report back to the FBI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warren was kind enough to answer my questions. She pointed out that victims of crime who live in high risk communities with liberal DAs and basic cash bail policies have strong incentives to not report the crime. Should they report the local gang member who robbed their shop or mugged them, the gang member, if arrested, will quickly make bail \u2014 being in a gang means having friends who will bail you out \u2014 and who will then come looking to exact revenge. Domestic violence victims may be subject to the same fate as domestic violence victims. Abusive boyfriends might come back to beat or worsen them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Risk assessments could be used to address this issue. Two factors are considered in risk assessments: whether the defendant will be present at trial, and what public safety risk the defendant presents to the community. The bail bond industry and the left are almost unanimously against risk assessments in bail. They claim they are biased racially. Some risk assessments may be a black box that uses racial scoring but there are many open-source risk assessment tools that don&#8217;t use ethnicity or race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before a DA can decide to press charges, and before someone charged with a crime can make bail, they have to be arrested \u2014 or, even better, deterred from committing a crime in the first place. Unfortunately, \u201cDefund the Police\u201d Movement has led to a reduction in resources for police in certain cities, while also disengaging officers from patrolling high-crime areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ja\u2019Ron Smith, a former special assistant to President Trump for domestic policy who now leads <a href=\"https:\/\/endviolentcrime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public Safety Solutions for America<\/a>The Coalition for the Prevention of Violent Crime (CPT) stated: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>It\u2019s important to have the best data available so we can make educated decisions on how to best solve for violent crime. The problem of crime is not a regional one. Studies show that violent crime is highly concentrated amongst a very small network of people within each city, so we need to leverage data to create evidence-based policy solutions to make communities safer, rather than playing politics with people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seattle, Washington has been at forefront of anti-police policy. 525 Seattle Police Department officers have resigned or retired since 2020. It is now becoming more difficult to find qualified candidates. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/law-justice\/seattle-violent-crime-hits-15-year-high-other-takeaways-from-new-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In 2022, violent crime was at its highest level in 15 years.<\/a>. In 2022, murders increased 24 percent compared to the previous year. Motor vehicle theft increased by 30%, and almost 70% of vehicles were never recovered. Last June, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/times-watchdog\/seattle-police-halted-investigating-adult-sexual-assaults-this-year-internal-memo-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">city police\u2019s sexual assault unit was so short of staff<\/a> It has stopped accepting new cases of sexual assault.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that the National Guard will be deployed by governors to assist overwhelmed law enforcement departments in the event of a continued collapse in local policing in Seattle and other major cities across the country?<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n Chuck DeVore serves as chief national initiatives officer at Texas Public Policy Foundation. He is also vice chairman of Golden State Policy Council. A former California legislator, DeVore was a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. He&#8217;s also the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0BGNKPTLR\">\u201cThe Crisis of the House Never United\u2014A Novel of Early America.\u201d <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. Gallup research Republicans perceive crime more as a problem when a Democrat is President, and vice &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1848881,"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":[547],"tags":[5037,7204,10372,10832],"class_list":["post-1849034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-cities","tag-crime","tag-democrat-run","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\/1849034","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1848881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}