Crime is not down. Prosecuting crime or chasing criminals is down. You can rob stores at will these days. 14 straight murder trials lost in Athens or something like that. If you suck that bad at chasing criminals crime will go down according to the numbers. It is like believing there is water in the desert. Sometimes you have to look past the numbers to see what is going on. Every jobs report changes after further examination. Numbers can be manipulated.
Just look at the illegal who killed the girl and his brother. Arrested like 15 times between them in two years. No jail time seen. How is that.
Unreliable data. Perceptions of lawlessness. Legislators double down on punishment as some stores walk back claims.
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It is kind of like the reports telling you that anything under 950 dollars can be stolen in Cali without penalty. They say it isn’t true. Then you see videos everywhere of people walking out with things not prosecuted.
1 in 162 have a chance of being a victim of a violent crime in Athens. 1 in 272 for the rest of the state. Yes that includes Atlanta.