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Conveniently ignoring that there was a global pandemic going on for most of the year with record high unemployment. Crime went up basically as soon as the pand

Conveniently ignoring that there was a global pandemic going on for most of the year with record high unemployment. Crime went up basically as soon as the pandemic started.

MarkMc 5y ago
At least in England and Wales the pandemic seems to have led to a reduction in crime: > Total police recorded crime decreased by 4% in England and Wales to approximately 5.8 million offences in the 12 months ending June 2020; police reported crime levels were relatively stable from July 2019 to March 2020 and the annual decrease was mainly driven by substantial falls during the April to June 2020 period, particularly in theft offences. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingjune2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...
- devrand 5y ago
  As far as I know this is fairly unique to the United States, and even then the crime stats are a bit... strange. Overall crime stats are just coming in at the federal level so the picture is very much incomplete, but if we look at particular cities (ex. New York City), we can see a sharp increase in murder and burglary, but a decrease in basically every other type of crime (leading to a net reduction) [1]. This seems to be the trend in cities across the country including Dallas [2], LA [3], and Chicago [4]. Murders are way up, but overall crime is down. [1]: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0106a/overall-crime-new-york-city-reaches-record-low-2020 https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0106a/overall-crime-new... [2]: https://dallaspolice.net/resources/CrimeReports/NIBRS%20Weekly%20Admin%20Council%20Report%20EOY.pdf https://dallaspolice.net/resources/CrimeReports/NIBRS%20Week... [3]: http://lapd-assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf http://lapd-assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf [4]: https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-2020-shooting-crime-stats-statistics/9250374/ https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-2020-shooting-crim...

Conveniently ignoring that there was a global pandemic going on for most of the year with record high unemployment. Crime went up basically as soon as the pandemic started.

MarkMc 5y ago

At least in England and Wales the pandemic seems to have led to a reduction in crime: > Total police recorded crime decreased by 4% in England and Wales to approximately 5.8 million offences in the 12 months ending June 2020; police reported crime levels were relatively stable from July 2019 to March 2020 and the annual decrease was mainly driven by substantial falls during the April to June 2020 period, particularly in theft offences. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingjune2020 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...

devrand 5y ago
As far as I know this is fairly unique to the United States, and even then the crime stats are a bit... strange. Overall crime stats are just coming in at the federal level so the picture is very much incomplete, but if we look at particular cities (ex. New York City), we can see a sharp increase in murder and burglary, but a decrease in basically every other type of crime (leading to a net reduction) [1]. This seems to be the trend in cities across the country including Dallas [2], LA [3], and Chicago [4]. Murders are way up, but overall crime is down. [1]: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0106a/overall-crime-new-york-city-reaches-record-low-2020 https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0106a/overall-crime-new... [2]: https://dallaspolice.net/resources/CrimeReports/NIBRS%20Weekly%20Admin%20Council%20Report%20EOY.pdf https://dallaspolice.net/resources/CrimeReports/NIBRS%20Week... [3]: http://lapd-assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf http://lapd-assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf [4]: https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-2020-shooting-crime-stats-statistics/9250374/ https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-2020-shooting-crim...