Originally posted by BOI49er:
Crime "rates" come from convictions. If you don't prosecute crime, you don't have much.
And many don't even bother to report the crime anyway because nothing will be done. Police don't bother to intervene because it won't be prosecuted.
The real kicker is, when you see how quickly they can clean things up if they want to. We're already seeing the tide turn in some areas.
I wonder if it's some kind of real estate scheme, make an area so crappy that it drives prices down, buy up the property then clean the area back up.