Crime's been decreasing for years, and (from what I understand) this year is tracking to be one of the safest years on record?
Definitionally, there absolutely has to be a correlation (not causation) between those two factors you listed.
https://ourworldindata.org/us-crime-rates
Most of the crime decrease from its peak happened before the year 2000.
That means back in the days of law enforcement needing to do low-tech wiretapping techniques, crime was still rapidly decreasing.
There’s just not even a correlation. And, as a reminder, correlation is not causation even if it was there.
Crime's been decreasing for years, and (from what I understand) this year is tracking to be one of the safest years on record?
Definitionally, there absolutely has to be a correlation (not causation) between those two factors you listed.
https://ourworldindata.org/us-crime-rates