Originally Posted by
nunbeater
lol violent crime has been decreasing in the US for decades, sounds like this DA just wants to focus on the crime part of the equation over the bullshit that republicans want to throw everyone in jail for. I love how they brought up Dinkins run as a disaster because of crack while simultaneously ignoring the fact that crack didn't increase the crime rate, crack being illegal and people fighting over the turf to deal crack increased the crime rate
Violent crime was decreasing in the US between the early 1990s and 2014.
Then came "The Ferguson Effect".
It's been going up since then, and has really rocketed up over the past 2 years in some places.
However, unlike the '70s and '80s, when crime was going up around the country at a fairly uniform rate, we are now seeing disproportionate rises in violent crime in certain cities. Places like LA, NY, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, and several other big cities are seeing a huge crime problem, and the left's response has been to decriminalize or non-prosecute so-called "minor" crimes, which has led to making the matter even worse.
At the same time, crime in a lot of suburbs and certain medium-sized cities hasn't risen much, or in some cases has gone down. This allows the left to lump all the numbers together, and minimize what's really going on in the worst spots.
In the entire modern history of the US, more police on the streets, longer sentences, and more prosecution of all crimes has led to a lower violent crime rate, and the reverse has led to a higher crime rate.
The left sees the attempt to incarcerate fewer people as compassionate and anti-racist, but in reality these policies directly harm law-abiding people of color. That's why the entire "Defund the Police" movement (and yes, I know what was really meant by that) was popular with white liberals in the suburbs, but unpopular in high crime neighborhoods where the police are actually needed.