Crime in Minnesota was down across the board in 2023, according to preliminary data released by the Department of Public Safety.
Statewide, relative to 2022:
- Homicide was down 5%
- Car thefts were down 8%, and carjackings 38%
- Larceny, or theft, decreased by about 15%
- Rape fell by 20%
Many major crime categories, like robbery, burglary, larceny and sexual assault, are now running lower than they did prior to the pandemic. Others, like homicide, aggravated assault and motor vehicle theft, remain well above pre-pandemic levels despite recent declines.
“early data” its 18 days in, dont we have computers that can do math this fast yet?
You’d think, just ask the Banking industry why it takes days to process transactions or why they have to continue to do it in “nightly batches” in 2024
Answer: Upgrading ancient mainframes and software written on COBOL or FORTRAN to something modern and capable of handling things in realtime would cost too much :/
I bet it is not the data crunching, but the gathering. Something about not centralizing data continually during the year and then there is slow reporting in once a year.
Oh, that’s fair I guess.
Wtf happened leading up to 1980?
https://medium.com/@tgof137/explaining-the-crime-wave-of-the-1980s-d98395133dfc
It sounds like the big hitter is the way we handled drugs.
