You're the one who brought up the "crack wars" narrative; the article doesn't mention crack at all. It does, however, state (contrary to your claim) that murde

You're the one who brought up the "crack wars" narrative; the article doesn't mention crack at all. It does, however, state (contrary to your claim) that murders are _down_ (by 34%). If you are taking a narrower view of "still" and only counting the Covid era spike (generally agreed to be due to people being forced to spend more time in small, socially isolated groups) I would note that 1) this still has nothing to do with crack and 2) it would be an example of exactly the sort of cherry picking you claim to object to.