They keep saying crime is down in Columbus but go ask the people actually living in these neighborhoods if it feels safer ask the mothers who won’t let their kids play outside ask the families hearing gunshots at night ask the people who see the same streets getting hit over and over again because numbers on a report don’t mean anything when violence is still showing up at your front door what they don’t tell you is crime can go down overall while going up in the same communities every single time so while they celebrate statistics the same blocks are still dealing with shootings robberies and domestic situations that are getting worse not better and that’s the problem because averages hide reality and reality is violence isn’t disappearing it’s being concentrated so the real question is not is crime down the real question is where is it still happening who is it happening to and why are those conditions not changing because if nothing changes in those neighborhoods then nothing actually changed at all and that’s the truth they don’t want you to focus on