> In your opinion [...] was it all faked? Please don't flamebait. The poster is talking about year-on-year changes in a neighborhood, not decade-on-decade chan

> In your opinion [...] was it all faked? Please don't flamebait. The poster is talking about year-on-year changes in a neighborhood, not decade-on-decade changes in a whole country. The relevance of personal experience is drastically higher in the first case. But I think it's worth noting that "crime is rising" and "crime is not rising" tend to be aliases for the real opinions: "crime is too high" and "crime is not too high".