Alec, your claim that crime is down U.S.-wide is just like @chesaboudin claim it is down in SF.
Technically true. But once you look more closely, it is clear that certain types of crime are up.
In our city, murders are up. Burglaries. Car thefts. Arson. Shootings. Drug OD dead.https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1437420997083373571 …
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What do you imagine the significance to be of even modest yearly fluctuations in any of these particular "crimes"? Do you know whether pollution crimes, wage theft, or any other crime not widely investigated is up? What the role of cops and prosecutors are in any of these?
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The broader points are much more complex and much more important than any police-reported "crime" data, and driven by things like inequality and culture way way way more important than any policies of the current DA:https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1422949466986921991 …
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Which claim, handily, needs no proof in the progressive's mind. It's more like an ideological sacrament. You can't be a progressive unless you put your faith into woke scripture. Where are your numbers? Where your evidence?
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