[filoleg]

No. High crime stats is pretty much always a bad thing (regardless of whether there is actually more crime driving it up or due to enforcement being overzelaous). But low crime stats aren't always a good thing, like in a situation when they are low because there is no enforcement prosecution happening.

To give you an analogy that might help, high covid infection numbers are bad always, but low covid numbers can be either good (if the covid numbers are truly down) or bad (if the real numbers are just not being tracked properly/swept under the rug, and people are just not getting tested enough).

But to give a direct answer to your original question, yes, low crime numbers are bad when they are the result of prosecution and enforcement not doing their job, as opposed to being the result of crime actually going down.