> The government in medium to large cities in USA have abdicated their responsibility to enforce the law. Crime is through the roof.
to put it in prospective, crime in NYC is indeed rising for the last 3 years, but was mostly declining from 2000 to 2020.
murder was 673 in 2000, 292 in 2017, 488 in 2021, 438 in 2022.
robbery 33K 13K in 2018, 17K in 2022
grand larceny is the only one that exceeded 2000 – 49.6K in 2000, 51.5K in 2022