Well, first off, making claims about different reasons why this occurred, one has to wonder why they came up with distant causal relationships between numbers but didn't mention the glaring one that is most recent...Trump stopped immigration SIGNIFICANTLY. I don't find it surprising at all, less immigrants and less murders...shocking! While the numbers were going down already, they only started to steeply decline when the border closed.

I mean, if you are going to make generalized statements with very little factual basis, let's not ignore the ones with more empirical evidence than the longshots mentioned in the article. Whether it's true or not is inconsequential, all that matters is we include every possibility and stop being stupidly biased in our conclusions.

Secondly, since LA decided to stop reporting metrics regarding metadata of crimes, conclusions are even harder to make. They don't report details of the crimes anymore so there is no way to even determine what the decline can be attributed to (2022 and after).

Thirdly, if everything that was good under Biden was Biden's fault and everything bad under Biden was Trump's fault as all Dems like to say, then everything good under Trump is Trump's fault. Thank you Trump!