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How could you guarantee such a thing?  I'd "guarantee" they are mostly annoyed at the silly protest.

But maybe somehow magically we'll see some new raft of legislation on climate change?  I think not.  It's silly.  They should go play in traffic.

But see, it isn't magic. Annoyed or not, they are now thinking about it. That's the magic of protests, which is to get an issue immediately into the minds of people. There seems to be some conflating here between something being done and everything being done, and if somehow everything isn't done then nothing was done. That is am error in logic.

how do they measure crime

Isnt it by how many of which type of crime was committed?

If you have these stats could you post it

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/#:~:text=There%20have%20been%20notable%20increases,than%20before%20the%20coronavirus%20pandemic.

But see, it isn't magic. Annoyed or not, they are now thinking about it. That's the magic of protests, which is to get an issue immediately into the minds of people. There seems to be some conflating here between something being done and everything being done, and if somehow everything isn't done then nothing was done. That is am error in logic.

No, they aren't thinking about it.  They are just annoyed.  Many likely had no clue what was being protested.  

If anybody is thinking about it, they likely are thinking negatively about it.

And obviously the protests will result in squat other than a night in jail for a few folks.

To me, "thinking about it" would mean "Huh, I didn't know this was such an issue, let me go read up on it and THINK about it some more." 

If folks want to protest peacefully, have at it.  I'm under no illusion it will change anything beyond some very very rare cases where public opinion is swayed and that takes a MAJOR issue of concern to a lot of folks.

Isnt that for the entire country

I thought the location in question was Columbus

Are you telling me you care about the crime rate of Columbus, Ohio? https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2024/01/25/how-safe-is-columbus-ohio-police-look-at-2023-crime-by-the-numbers/72242911007/ is in part talking about it, though that is mostly from 2022-23.

There was no crime spike. There was a spike in homicides. The raft of stolen cars certainly impacted property crime statistics , though overall crime didn't increase, at least according to FBI statistics.

I read recently that some cities have stopped reporting to the FBI. I'll see if I can find a link to the stories.

There most definitely was a spike in violent crime, including murders, nationally.

It's starting to abate.  And murder and assault rates tend to mirror each other for obvious reasons.  One goes up, so does the other.

Crime in the U.S.: Key questions answered | Pew Research Center

In 2020, for example, the U.S. murder rate saw its [color=var(--wp--preset--color--ui-link-color)]largest single-year increase on record[/color] – and by 2022, it remained considerably higher than before the coronavirus pandemic. Preliminary data for 2023, however, suggests that [color=var(--wp--preset--color--ui-link-color)]the murder rate fell substantially last year[/color].

There most definitely was a spike in violent crime, including murders, nationally.

Not really