{"id":88320,"date":"2024-09-13T06:32:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T11:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88320"},"modified":"2024-09-13T06:35:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T11:35:22","slug":"functional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88320","title":{"rendered":"Functional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amongf the Kamala Harris lies that ABC at the debates was the idea that &#8220;crime is down&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Crime Numbers Don&#39;t Help David Muir&#39;s Assertion <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TnX33Wzw76\">https:\/\/t.co\/TnX33Wzw76<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimgeraghty\/status\/1834322836455882985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It means you have a functioning BS detector.  The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which measures Americans interactions with crimes <em>not reported <\/em>to the cops, unlike the FBI report Muir was flogging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">it&#8217;s not good<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Overall, the NCVS indicate that in 2023, the rate of nonfatal violent victimization in the United States was 22.5 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older, which was similar to the 2022 rate of 23.5 violent victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older. Violent victimization includes rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically, the NCVS had lower numbers for violent victimizations for 2020 and 2021, despite the widespread perception that crime got significantly worse during the pandemic. In 2018 the figure was 23.8, in 2019 it was 21, it was 16.4 in 2020 \u2014 remember, lots of people were stuck at home, and fewer people on the street means less street crime \u2014 and in 2021 it was 16.5.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And a look at the Minneapolis crime dashboard, counting only crimes reported to the cops, is also a little instructive: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minneapolismn.gov\/government\/government-data\/datasource\/crime-dashboard\/\">as of today<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>homicide, larceny and robbery are up from last year<\/li>\n<li>Assault and sex offenses are up above the 3 year average (and that counts 2021, one of the worst years on record)<\/li>\n<li>Vandalism and domestic assault are up over <em>both <\/em>last year and the average.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things that always drew me to blogging was the notion of having a voice to shoot back (figuratively) at Big Media&#8217;s stultifying echo chamber.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I had no idea, 22 years on, that we&#8217;d be this busy at it.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amongf the Kamala Harris lies that ABC at the debates was the idea that &#8220;crime is down&#8221;: It means you have a functioning BS detector. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which measures Americans interactions with crimes not reported to the cops, unlike the FBI report Muir was flogging. And it&#8217;s not good: And a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,130,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-tc-media-bias","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88323,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88320\/revisions\/88323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}