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Was this documented statistically, or just something people perceived, along with an increased presence of dark-skinned people?
by lenticular 8y ago
Was this documented statistically, or just something people perceived, along with an increased presence of dark-skinned people?
- web007 8y agoIt's documented somewhere, but I can't find it with a few minutes of searching. It's wildly racist and classist, but almost certainly true if you ignore "per capita" or other qualifiers. Higher numbers of people in a location lead to more crimes occurring in that location, so "crime went up when the rail arrived" is almost a statistical certainty. It doesn't address the fact that crime may increase by 10% while the transit population goes up by 50%.