Here’s some purely anecdotal evidence showing America’s declining social situation. IIRC, we just had three weeks running without a “shots fired” entry in the local blotter. Just when I thought maybe things were calming down, apparently they are not. At least nobody got shot last week, despite a teenager going on 72-hr hold after an altercation involving a deadly weapon. Looks like one of the incidents was actually some sort of drive-by.
That is unheard of in Frederick CO, ostensibly, one of the safest places to live in the whole damn country. I noticed that entry in the weekly local LE summary Frederick publishes for the first time ever over a year ago at some point after pandemic restrictions went into full swing. Never saw it before, and now it’s a regular feature of the report, with incidents growing in severity.
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It’s hard to argue with the safety rating while traffic stops and pet problems make up the bulk of the work. But the trend is not good.