• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    13 days ago

    Is it down? I thought it was basically unchanged.

    Maybe depending on your starting point. What years are you comparing?

    • Not_mikey@slrpnk.netOP
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      13 days ago

      For police staffing it’s been going down since the George Floyd protest No one wants to be a cop any more. This one doesn’t give years but it says 5% over the last couple years. The change is bigger in larger more liberal cities. Chicago is down 13% since 2018 , san francisco which inspired this meme is down 20% since 2017 and all the mayoral candidates are falling over themselves to say they’ll solve it even though crime is down.

      For crime I was referring to the decline since the post pandemic peak.