Sure, the statistics are not very good, but we don't have anything better. We have some evidence that property crime has gone down relative to other parts of th

Sure, the statistics are not very good, but we don't have anything better. We have some evidence that property crime has gone down relative to other parts of the country (and much better evidence for homicide, which doesn't have the same under-reporting risk), and no evidence (as far as I know) for the opposite.