The blue line is getting thinner

A big question I ask people is "Why do we feel less safe even though crime is at an all time low?" Not a lot of people have answers, and I think way too many people aren't aware of that fact. It's one of the safest times to walk through any downtown core, yet people feel the least safe they ever have.

Crime is down because there’s less cops to commit it lmao.

Are there numbers about police staffing being down I can look at?

depends, which areas are they counting crime? Which areas are they counting police quitting?

Don't take the word of a meme for something like this. Look into how those statistics were counted.

(edit: Spelling error)

They would say it's because police are getting better at their jobs or something

well cant report crime if there is no one to report to no?

What's the percentage chance someone has misunderstood the difference between causation and correlation?

Just to play devils advocate here is crime going down because of underreporting (either from smaller budgets or corruption to boost the image of a town / department)

What's the source for this claim?

what fklag is that, it looks like usa but colors are off

veritassium did this fascinating af video mirroring a study on people's political biases and how it influences reasoning: it seems like the more educated or intelligent you are, the more your biases interfere with your ability to analyze positions that are contrary to your own views and that interference is proportional to your level of education/intelligence and the people who don't have either are able to reason mostly the same whether or not their biases where challenged.

Same with covid, if you don't look for it, you will not find it.

And when there are 0 cops, 0 crimes will be recorded. Brilliant!