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by justchilly 2018 days ago
You're looking at arrest data, not incident data. Very likely arrests are down because police deprioritized non-felony crimes post prop 47.
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And then the bar of criminal charges for theft is getting higher and higher. In San Francisco nobody is getting bothered by a "criminal according to old stat rules" going through a row of parked cars smashing windows and grabbing everything in plain sight anymore. Not even arrest record would show up in modern stats. We are totally safe these days