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I thought the same thing then remembered that my car has been smash and grabbed not once, but twice

> then remembered that my car has been smash and grabbed not once, but twice

A friend in San Francisco casually mentioned their car getting broken into. The normalization is funny when one recognizes it.

Ditto. First time I reported it but never heard anything back from the police. Second time I didn't even bother.

This is how crime stats "not increasing" end up happening, because we don't report it since it's a waste of time. I'm not blaming you, I don't report 100% of the incidents I deal with in the inner-city of Seattle (something happens every quarter without fail), but unfortunately it depresses the actual crime rates that are occurring every day.

https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/chicago-crime-st...

The best documentation of this I know of is from Chicago about 10 years ago. The above was the first article by the journalist I associate with it.

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