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Last December NYT: Is Shoplifting Really Surging? https://archive.ph/lJxHA https://archive.ph/lJxHA > Conservative media has promoted these videos as evidence
by h2odragon 3y ago
Last December NYT: Is Shoplifting Really Surging? https://archive.ph/lJxHA https://archive.ph/lJxHA
> Conservative media has promoted these videos as evidence of disorder in liberal cities and under President Biden.
Numerous other media emissions similarly re-assured us that crime is down! There's no organized theft rings! and so on.
It's so hard to keep up with History today.
- JohnMakin 3y agoCrime can be down and there also can be organized theft rings. Do you see why?
- readthenotes1 3y agoThe most obvious reason why is that by crime you mean reported crime, and by reported crime you mean reported crime reported to the FBI. (E.G., https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/15/see-if-police-in-your-state-reported-crime-data-to-the-fbi https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/08/15/see-if-police-...)
- iwanttocomment 3y agoThere seems to be an essential confusion between police refusing to investigate low-level theft without bodily harm (non-felony shoplifting, snatch-and-run, hit-and-run without injury) and the resulting (and inaccurate) lower crime rates. While not necessarily true of more serious (high-value or violent crimes) it is entirely possible for actual minor crime rates to rise while reported crime rates decrease.
- JohnMakin 3y agoSure, but the parent I responded to seems to be trying to make an "aha!" here based on the fact that there are in fact crime rings, that crime is not actually down, which is a completely fallacious conclusion.