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Of course crime is down, the city burned to ashes in 2020.

I've a hard time understanding how this ended up on HN frontage. Maybe someone could enlighten me ?

Reports of violent crime are 36% down from the recent COVID-19 era peak, but are still above 2018 rates.

Does the Seattle police department report uniform crime statistics to the FBI?

If you stop arresting people for anything the stats can also go down, just saying. There is a theory that violent crime has generational spikes and as certain groups age out of risky behaviors, the crime rate falls (for awhile). Politicians will of course take credit for the changes despite their policies having little real effect on what is a natural process. It's kind of like Pfizer taking credit for ending covid when really the virus just burned itself out naturally. But the public is fooled!

Eh… that’s abrupt. What changed so suddenly? Or are the numbers faked?

This is an attempt to get ahead of Republicans deploying National Guard on Seattle? Or is that a city they like?

Republicans don’t use statistics or numbers. If the vibe is off they’ll get violent.