Could your data not be completely accounted for by a decrease in public trust in police effectiveness to address instances of crime at the level of individual instances?
The only evidence available to us implies that crime is going down. Ideology is the only reason you might believe otherwise without evidence.
Note that I didn’t say “without evidence” at the end - smoke is evidence, as is an article that you’re commenting on talking about thefts that are common enough to make half of a city’s citizens victims in a five year period. And, you cite a source that notes that people aren’t reporting because nothing comes of it.
I mean, what reason other than ideology would explain your unwillingness to take that stuff as evidence?
In this example you cold point to the smoke as first-hand evidence. Can you point to equivalent evidence that people are underreporting crimes?
I'm only asking to see evidence showing underreporting, a claim you made. No ideology here.