No sooner do we note here the out-of-control crime in San Francisco (and elsewhere in California) than we find a magical solution appear: stop collecting and reporting crime data!
Yesterday the FBI released its quarterly uniform crime report. There appears this curious note on the home page:
In other words, if I read this right not enough law enforcement agencies sent in the data required for the FBI to provide national statistics. Maybe this is a consequence of cutting police budgets. Thatâs one way of reducing the crime rate!
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal followed up yesterday with this item about âcrime tourismâ in California:
Sid Garcia reports for KABC-TV in Los Angeles:
Law enforcement agencies call it âcrime tourismâ â groups of thieves from South America traveling to California to burglarize home…
