Or in the case of Russia, murders go down, and unidentified bodies that are dead for no particular reason go up by the same amount.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477370818794124?ic...

There is so much petty crime that is no longer reported in France because people know the cops won't do anything about.

What's the point of reporting it if you know that nothing will come out of it? I had my car broken into, my phone stolen on the train, I have been harassed on public transport. Guess how many times the perpetrators were fined/convicted?

A big fat 0. And some of that stuff happened in areas with multiple "security" cameras who witnessed the whole thing.

We saw NYC and SF do this to disastrous effects. Journalists had to start looking at privately collected victimization rates to get an accurate picture since crime stats were clearly being juked.

That goes both ways. Crime statistics can also be inflated by making things people already do illegal, eg the various facets of prohibiting different substances that people use.

It can be, but it's easy to check wheter it's true or another fascist dream, right