Your perception of your own personal safety is not an objective measure of crime
Reported crime is not an objective measure of crime and should not form the basis of a policing strategy.
When police cease to act on reports of crime, people have no incentive to report crime (except for major property crime which might be covered by insurance, and things like murder).
This is why we can't trust the crime stats where I live (San Francisco).
Your response is logically inconsistent.
>Reported crime [...] should not form the basis of a policing strategy.
and:
>When police cease to act on reports of crime, people have no incentive to report crime.
Logically, then, reported crime should form the basis of a policing strategy, since it creates an incentive to report crime.
Past policing strategy means that current crime stats are unreliable. These current crime stats should therefore not form the basis of a future policing strategy.
If we're optimizing for getting results today, policing strategy should not rely on the flawed crime stats we have today.
If we're optimizing for the long term, then sure rely on crime stats, but first make it easy to report crime.