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The crime rate has gone up. This means that everything is getting worse and the police are ineffective.
The crime rate has gone up. This means that the police are getting better at catching formerly clandestine criminal behavior.
It would be possible to distinguish between those hypotheses by looking at the ratio of crimes reported to crimes successfully prosecuted.