[jcbe]

Kind of a funny day to post this (WMATA just released data showing crime rates at a 25-year low)

[lostlogin]

Sounds like time to send in the National Guard.

[testing22321]

25 year low is still an order of magnitude higher than a developed country.

[nailer]

I have do idea about DC but I don't trust crime rate stats - a lot might be unreported.

In NYC last year someone burnt someone else to death while they sat, relaxed and watched, and in a seperate incident a person died died and someone else had sex with them afterwards.

It could that be crime is lower or it could be that insane brutality has become normalized.

[lostlogin]

Crimes stats famously get massaged. However murders are hard to downgrade.

[stavros]

But do you have reason to believe that crime is reported less often now than in the past?