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That was burglaries that the stats said from the article. Your data is interesting but it also shows crime is trending down if dates are limited to 2017-2019,

• wahern 7y ago
  10 years is surely long enough to establish a new, local trend. (The graph starts January 2009, not 2010.) And starting from 2009 has more legitimacy than selecting any random 2-year period. What makes 2017 significant? Did Trump's election bring less crime? 2009 was the bottom of the recession and has become the baseline for examining many socio-economic trends across the country. 2011 was also the beginning of serious criminal justice reform in California; it was the year the state began to empty its prisons. What remains down is violent crime, notwithstanding several high-profile assaults this past year, many of which are incident to property crimes. Arguing that if you go back far enough things are still improving is like arguing wealth inequality isn't a legitimate issue because even the poor have televisions and refrigerators.