Which has had the predictable result that murder rates fell precipitously this year.
Wait, that's not the predictable result. Aren't the police the thin blue line that is the only things that protects us from every day being, "The Purge?"
With cops quiet quitting over the past few years in San Francisco, Austin, Chicago, Portland, etc., one would think that crime would have skyrocketed in 2023, but it didn't.
My guess would be that aggressive policing as it is currently structured tends to disrupt society more than anything else:
Detroit is on track to record the fewest murders since the 1960s. In Philadelphia, where there were more murders in 2021 than in any year on record, the number of homicides this year has fallen more than 20 percent from last year. And in Los Angeles, the number of shooting victims this year is down more than 200 from two years ago.
The decrease in gun violence in 2023 has been a welcome trend for communities around the country, though even as the number of homicides and the number of shootings have fallen nationwide, they remain higher than on the eve of the pandemic.
In 2020, as the pandemic took hold and protests convulsed the nation after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, the United States saw the largest increase in murders ever recorded. Now, as 2023 comes to a close, the country is likely to see one of the largest — if not the largest — yearly declines in homicides, according to recent F.B.I. data and statistics collected by independent criminologists and researchers.
Clearly, we as a society are doing policing wrong.
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