Colorado Springs was last year trying to redirect several million dollars of tax refunds toward funding a cop-city to reinforce the police force “dwindling” since the 2020 riots. I went in during a period of public comment and pointed out how the crime rates had actually been reducing over the same period as they were fear-mongering the reduction in police force. I pointed out how conservatives always claim to want to stick with safe solutions, to keep doing what works instead of trying new ideas. I asked them why this was any different, why don’t you wanna keep trying what works now?
This kind of fits with my guess a couple years ago. Basically, violent crime seemed to spike around COVID, which could be due to WFH and lockdowns or just side effects of COVID, and that has worked its way out and now we’re getting back to “normal” crime.
I don’t know if that’s a valid takeaway at all, so I’m interested to hear others’ takes.
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