Friends living in cities around the country have been talking of crime spikes in their neighborhoods, or ones close by, in the past year.
I don’t know if these “on the ground” impressions are reflected in FBI crime rate data, but I’d say keep an eye on the stats to see if, in the next few years, the official numbers swing upward along with the anecdotal trend. We may be headed into an old-is-new-again era of multicultural bonhomie.