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Or, possibly police are hesitant to do their work, and criminals are feeling emboldened.

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This hypothesis is called the Ferguson effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_effect#:~:text=The%....

You can imagine that people in Ferguson might be unwilling to report petty crime until the police can’t do much about it as the punishment for stealing a low value item can be summary execution and you might not want that for the kid down the street who has gone off the rails a bit. So that probably affects the clear up rate.

Such absurd hyperbole.

Don’t physically fight with police, and you’ll be fine. Simple as that.

There are countless cases of police (especially in the US) executing entirely compliant and peaceful people.

Even more absurd hyperbole. Countless? Executing? So many that it is impossible to count?

Link me some examples. There are so many that it cannot be counted, and so surely it should be easy for you to send me a dozen examples.

Countless is also entirely hyperbolic. Approximately 1000 people were killed by police in 2019, and the vast majority were violently resisting.

Unlikely. Police mostly deal with consequences, they can’t stop everyone from doing what they have intended to do. And why would police suddenly become hesitant?

It is more likely that it is caused by pandemic situation where many people have lost jobs and homes. Also social conditions changed. All of that could attribute to agressive and reckless behaviour.

The spikes coincide with blm/anti cop riots, not with the lockdowns.

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