It is laughable that you cite "reality" while failing to address it or acknowledging that reality IS my argument.
Reality is that childish soft on crime leftist idealism reached it's apex precisely as crime rates peaked. Then the adults dealt with the leftist mess by adopting tough on crime policies and crime plummeted.
Crime fell so much that infantile morons forgot why we enacted tough on crime policies in the first place so childish soft on crime leftist idealism has regained traction and as night follows day, crime follows leftism. Blood on hands.
There are other possible correlating factors, though.
There's the abortion/crime hypothesis.
Roe was 1973, which if it meant that people in lower socioeconomic classes (socioeconomic class being positively correlated with crime/violence, often concentrated in cities) weren't being born starting then, those non-births that wouldn't be reaching age 20 in the early 90s could explain a "sudden" drop in crime rates.
There's the lead/crime hypothesis, which states that as we moved from leaded to unleaded gasoline, which the particulates amassing in ground soil disproportionately were concentrated in urban environments because of population/vehicle density, diminished, it resulted in less cognitive impairment which often manifested as poor outcomes, violence, etc.
I don't want to wade into your mess here, but this may not be as clear as you'd think.
I do think some of the soft-on-crime policies post-Floyd did go bonkers. Especially here in CA where we basically just said "you want to shoplift? go for it!" And I think there is now a much-needed backlash against that. But again there are a lot of other correlated issues, such as depression / substance abuse / mental health issues that were brought on by isolation [and likely fear] during the pandemic that could be involved in what's happened since 2020... I feel like we've been seeing more and more anger in society as a whole, and I don't think that's due to depolicing policies.
That said, though, I think we went the wrong direction getting lax on policing, and I think it needs to reverse itself towards actually enforcing laws.
