As the White House prepared to send National Guard troops into Memphis under the pretense of a “crime crackdown,” and threatened to follow with deployments in Chicago and New York, there appeared to be a disconnect.

In all of the regions, including the two cities President Donald Trump had already sent troops to, Washington, DC and Los Angeles, violent crime had fallen by more than 17% over the last year. That’s according to statistics by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program under the FBI.

Locally, violent crime fell by 14% over the last year. Crime in all categories fell collectively by 28% according to the UCR and Syracuse Police Chief Joe Cecile. He credited the sizable drop to the state’s tech investment in drones, a robotic dog, license plate readers, and hundreds of cameras th

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