Oct. 26, 2023 - Epoch Times
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| There's been a concerted effort to deny the increase in crime in California, but we know that homicides increased significantly nationwide by 30%. | |
| We now know that homicides have increased in California's largest cities by 17% in the year 2021, and we know that property crimes have increased by 7% in major cities in California as well. | |
| That's just the official number. | |
| There's good reason to think that crime has actually increased significantly more than that. | |
| And the reason for that is that there's just a very large number of people that report that they no longer report crimes, particularly property crimes, car break-ins, shoplifting, because the police don't respond. | |
| And the police aren't responding for two reasons. | |
| The first is that the police forces themselves have been absolutely decimated. | |
| And the other issue is, of course, that the district attorneys are not prosecuting many crimes. | |
| And so we've seen a significant rise in crime officially. | |
| We've also seen a decline in reports, and we've seen a decline in arrests. | |
| So people are not imagining things. |
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