This chart is up to 2024. If you look up 2025 and 2026 data for the US you will see that it has continued to decline YoY.
Judging by your comment I assume that you have personally witnessed some criminality recently and are drawing conclusions about the entire US, if so I’m sorry you had to endure that, but that doesn’t mean that your conclusions apply to the general trend in the US as the GP was referring to.
But I have no need to convince anyone. It is just weird to me that I need to explain the obvious.
I am sure that you are familiar with an expression of being hit by lightning indicating some relatively low chance of an event[1]. Now, imagine walking around with a rather conductive flagpole everywhere you go, do you think you would up or lower your odds ( edit: for a lightning to strike ).
Maybe it is true that I don't discuss statistics the way you do. After all, I merely apply them to real life.
But then again, I don't walk around during thunderstorm waiting to be struck.
In other words, you are wrong. Individual actions affecting chance are very much relevant to discussion about statistics.
Maybe just a coincidence. I'm sure it is just a coincidence. For real