Let's ignore your limp attempt to shift the discussion to rural states and just zoom into where I live. You know, the place that's made headlines that people like you ignore.

OK, lets. (And before I start I’m sorry that you live in such a dysfunctional area. Not my fault. Could be yours, I don’t know.)

Seattle: Homicides in 2023: 3.74 per 100,000.
Mobile, AL. 20.17 per 100,000
San Francisco: 6.35 per 100,000
San Diego: 2.46

Here, a whole chart. Includes other violent crimes, rapes, aggravated assault, robberies for your listening and dancing pleasure.

en.wikipedia.org - List of United States cities by crime rate

It’s really this simple: your thesis is wrong. You may be seeing it locally in Seattle, but the COUNTRY is not. Crime is not just down, it’s down significantly over the past 10, 20, and 30 years. I understand that statistics are not your long suit, in fact when it comes to statistics you have no suit at all apparently, but buck naked or not, you’re simply wrong.

Meanwhile, I suggest you try to do something about *your city* and not try to put the rest of the country under lockdown because of your own failings, thank you very much.