What I appreciate about this episode is that they don't deny some crime statistics are up in some places. They don't deny that! What they do is add the context and nuance the national media coverage and political battles have lacked.

For example one statistic that they cover changed dramatically because the reporting criteria changed. Human behavior may not have changed in the least, but the statistic suddenly became sensational because of how it was calculated. The worst part is that it's clearly impossible in that case to know if human behavior did change! By changing what they measured they ruined any opportunity to make a meaningful comparison.