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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 Te
by 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 agoThat'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 agoPeople 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.