The Actual Crime Rate Is Down. Let's Lay Off Half The Police For LACK OF NEED... They are Bored, Heavily Armed with Nothing to Do and Therefore It's No Surprise That They GET IN TROUBLE...

"Violent crime in the U.S. has fallen sharply over the past quarter century." says PEW... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/17/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/

The two most commonly cited sources of crime statistics in the U.S. both show a substantial decline in the violent crime rate since it peaked in the early 1990s. One is an annual report by the FBI of serious crimes reported to police in more than 18,500 jurisdictions around the country. The other is a nationally representative annual survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, which asks approximately 160,000 Americans ages 12 and older whether they were victims of crime, regardless of whether they reported those crimes to the police.

Using the FBI numbers, the violent crime rate fell 51% between 1993 and 2018. Using the BJS data, the rate fell 71% during that span. The long-term decline in violent crime hasn’t been uninterrupted, though. The FBI, for instance, reported increases in the violent crime rate between 2004 and 2006 and again between 2014 and 2016. Violent crime includes offenses such as rape, robbery and assault.

2Property crime has declined significantly over the long term. Like the violent crime rate, the U.S. property crime rate today is far below its peak level. FBI data shows that the rate fell by 54% between 1993 and 2018, while BJS reports a decline of 69% during that span. Property crime includes offenses such as burglary, theft and motor vehicle theft, and it is generally far more common than violent crime.

Who Funds the PEW Charitable Trust? [SUN OIL HEIRS] Are they Just Another "Think Tank" Publishing Republican Propaganda Like the Heritage Foundation? [YES]

The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today's most challenging problems. We are an independent nonprofit organization – the sole beneficiary of seven individual trusts established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew.

Pew is Often Cited By Republicriminals to Make Their #CrazyTalk Sound Legit:

• Trump falsely claimed that a Pew Charitable Trusts report supports his claim that millions of people voted illegally. The report documented millions of instances of voter registration inaccuracies.
• Told the Pew report found no evidence of voter fraud, Trump falsely claimed the report “all of a sudden changed” and the author was now “groveling.” It did not, and he did not.

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/01/more-trump-deception-on-voter-fraud/

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Instead... Try "The Scientific Method": Observe Reality, Collect Facts, Analyse the Data, Draw Conclusions. It's the Opposite of the Republicrime Method: Write a Conclusion, Make Up "Facts", Pretend those "Facts" are Reality, Attack anyone who disagrees with their conclusion.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pew_Charitable_Trusts

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"The Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), founded in 1948. With over US$6 billion in assets, its stated mission is to serve the public interest by "improving public policy, informing the public, and invigorating civic life".^[1]"

Although today The Pew Charitable Trusts is "non-partisan and non-ideological", Joseph Pew and his sons were politically conservative. In 2004, the Pew Trusts applied to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to change its status from private foundation to nonprofit organization. Since that change it can now raise funds freely and devote up to 5% of its budget to lobbying the public sector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pew_Research_Center

History[edit]

In 1990, the Times Mirror Company founded the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press as a research project, tasked with conducting polls on politics and policy. Andrew Kohut became its director in 1993, and The Pew Charitable Trusts became its primary sponsor in 1996, when it was renamed the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.^[6]