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Crime has been coming down after prop 47 passed. This is such a common myth that I put the data into google sheets for these discussions. https://docs.google.c
by nouveaux 6y ago
Crime has been coming down after prop 47 passed. This is such a common myth that I put the data into google sheets for these discussions.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QgrfJvfa8XaVm0MEfU4jo36pw4UkT_5R9OsyInN29w4/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QgrfJvfa8XaVm0MEfU4j...
- justchilly 6y agoYou're looking at arrest data, not incident data. Very likely arrests are down because police deprioritized non-felony crimes post prop 47.
- notnap 6y agoAnd then the bar of criminal charges for theft is getting higher and higher. In San Francisco nobody is getting bothered by a "criminal according to old stat rules" going through a row of parked cars smashing windows and grabbing everything in plain sight anymore. Not even arrest record would show up in modern stats. We are totally safe these days