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Talk about cherry picking the numbers! Your own link and the crime index you cited directly disproves your conclusion:
From 2002 to 2007 (when you claim the wall was "started") the crime index dropped by 85 points. (364.4 to 279.3 over 5 years) From 2007 to 2016 the crime index dropped by 79 points. (279.3 to 199.7 over 9 years!) So: the rate of decrease in crime was much higher before the wall was built. Building the wall caused less of a decrease in crime than existed before the wall was "started."
The crime index fell much faster before the wall was built than it did after! You are blatantly misquoting statistics from your own source and using them to draw a false conclusion.
I explained that to him already, but he continues to spread the lie and get all outraged. Also note that they are not official statistics like he claims, but a number that the website came up using statistics it got from, well, somewhere, and adjusted using some formula. Says so right there on the site he links to: "City-data.com crime rate counts serious crimes and violent crime more heavily. It adjusts for the number of visitors and daily workers commuting into cities."