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Originally Posted by walking buffalo
Police reported Crime stats have been increasing the last few years.
2012 was a low point and is still used as the main source for claiming a drop in crime. Since 2012, REPORTED crime has increased. There is quite a bit of discussion as to what caused the crime rates to drop up to 2012, including the simple correlation to the types of crimes included. Perhaps crime did not actually drop, just an effect of the way stats were compiled.
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The initial argument was that decreasing morality was not the cause of mass killings because if morality was decreasing we should expect an increase in other crimes as well and saw the opposite from the late 60's to the early 10's.
However, you can't claim that the perceived decrease in crime was an effect of how stats are compiled and then use the same stats to show an increase since 2012.
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In other words, there continues to be a misconception of what is really going on. It is time for people to stop repeating the false narrative that crime is going down.
This graph from a couple years ago will hopefully re-educate a few. Things got even worse in 2016.....
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Perhaps crime did not actually increase, just an effect of the way stats are compiled.
Regardless, crime rates only got brought in to highlight that mass killings don't follow the same patterns as regular crime.