The amount and nature of crime is being downplayed. Murders are obviously going up because they can't hide that, but the rest of the numbers are low because of misreporting and officers avoiding making arrests. The same things are happening in other cities. Democrat politicians play this game to avoid being called out for being weak on crime. The media is partly to blame for not reporting the facts and accepting whatever the department tells them. All they have to do is turn on a police scanner