I have good news and bad news. Murders and fatal car crashes fell last year to the lowest point of the Bloody 2020s. You’ll be hearing a lot about the homicide decline because it’s thought to be in Joe Biden’s interest. For example, last week The Atlantic trumpeted: Last year, the crime and inflation crises largely evaporated. So did the leading theories about what had caused them. (In connection with Biden’s campaign, you won’t be hearing that traffic accidents in the first nine months of 2023 were down 4.5 percent compared with the same period in 2022 because nobody except my ...