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I'm glad you cherry picked an example to push a narrative.

• vimy 6y ago
  It’s not cherrypicking. I’m on mobile and it’s not fun to make a huge post on a small screen. Another example: Portland defunded the Gun Violence Reduction Team at the beginning of July. 28 shootings in July of 2019. 99 in July of 2020. The police chief said it was because of a lack of resources.
  • masonic 6y ago
    That's not a meaningful statistic in itself -- you need to exclude shootings within the Autonomous Zone, where the team would have been unable to operate anyway.
    • thu2111 6y ago
      People care about the murder statistics because they don't want to get murdered. If you're trying to use them to measure the performance of the police force, that might make a small amount of difference, but for the way most people are using these stats arbitrarily excluding a whole bunch of murders because they occurred due to the wholesale, officially sanctioned breakdown of law and order would be very misleading.
• dang 6y ago
  Please don't post flamewar comments like this. You've done it repeatedly in the past, and that's not ok here. Fortunately most of your comments are much better. Obviously you can disagree with the GP, but please do so within the site guidelines. If you'd review and follow them from now on, we'd be grateful: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note these ones: "Don't be snarky." "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."