Well, perhaps rather than just stating it was "up quite a bit" in some major cities, you could present evidence. And show us that it was up in several major cities not forgetting to also look to see if it was down in several major cities. I provided a link where you can look at data including crime data by size of the community. And in cities of over a million... In 2023.. Crime was down both violent and property.

As to your belief that it was way up in San Francisco. Sorry, once again the media has deluded you and perception is not reality. San Francisco data is very available HERE. It shows that crime is down in 2023 with property crimes like shoplifting having peaked in 2017. The 2023 rate of theft is the lowest since 2012.

What is a crime is our propensity to turn on the television and watch opinions cloaked as news. Then we take the 15 seconds of atrocious behavior they film and think that is it happening in our neighborhood or that it is happening right next door.

We would all be a lot more mentally balanced if we just turned off the television and viewed life through our own two eyes. Simply put, we have never, ever had it as good as it is now!

Of course, if you want to wring your knickers into a knot, then continue to watch the news. I bet you can come to the conclusion that you can never reach Orlando without being mugged, beaten, raped and murdered (or all of these) by a band of vicious transvestite cross dresser imigrants.

Do yourself a favor! Go watch the sunset with a nice glass of cold water or wine! Remind yourself, you never had it this good!

Actually they often have very little to report on. I mean ABC, NBC and CBS. I love the segments on CBS often on Fridays about people's kindness to one another. CBS Evening News - On The Road - CBS News

Up a bit or down a bit is not the issue, but rather the amount of crime. Compare urban areas to rural areas.

California is an interesting place. Many property crimes are no longer investigated so victims stop reporting them. In doing so it appears that those crimes have decreased when in fact they have gone up. And it's hard to steal from a shop that closed due to high theft rates.

You've got it!

LOL. Yeah, things are just rosy in SF. When you have two successive DAs that plead felonies down to misdemeanors and don't prosecute misdemeanors, your crime rate magically goes down. Yippee for bogus stats. Things are so good in SF the voters recalled the last DA, Walgreens shut down dozens of stores, and they have human excrement adorning the sidewalks.

Say what you want about Florida, but one thing you can be sure of, in Marion County you won't find any "prosecutors" like Fani Willis, George Gascón, Chesa Boudin, or Kimberly Fox. This guy will get what's coming to him in Marion County. Jail time.

The guy has been arrested over a dozen times already and he was walking free on an unserved warrant. I don't think that's a sign that the Marion County prosecutor and police have done much of a good job at all.