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Yes you can, just rule it a suicide or accident. I've seen a likely murder in mountain view misclassified as a diabetes-related accidental drowning.
by runnerup 5y ago
Yes you can, just rule it a suicide or accident. I've seen a likely murder in mountain view misclassified as a diabetes-related accidental drowning.
- MegaButts 5y agoYeah, I've actually seen this happen enough times that I believe it's more common than people think. I don't have statistics, but I've noticed multiple people die under mysterious circumstances (including a close friend) and they were usually ruled a suicide, even when the family objected.
- unethical_ban 5y agoWell, that's a "technically" while still missing the point. It is much more difficult to meaningfully shift murder rate numbers via mass mis-reporting, compared to other statistics.
- haimez 5y agoI don’t think you’ve meaningfully proved that claim. The point was that you can, in fact, quite easily game stats even for murder. I’ll add this[1] as another example. [1] - https://www.vox.com/world/2015/12/13/9989250/japan-crime-conviction-rate https://www.vox.com/world/2015/12/13/9989250/japan-crime-con...
- runnerup 5y agoTo steelman this argument, I'd say it's hard to hide "excess deaths" across all causes lumped together. Although during covid we probably even managed to do that by reducing miles driven and presumably # of road deaths.
- co2benzoate 5y agoHave you considered getting in touch with an investigative journalist?
- bshep 5y agoExample: Where I grew up if you didnt die within 24hrs or being shot it was not considered a murder, the gorvernment changed the way the statistic measures murders many years ago to lower the ‘murder’ rate. Edit to add this link with the murder rates: https://www.statista.com/statistics/984823/homicide-rate-puerto-rico/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/984823/homicide-rate-pue...
- elzbardico 5y agoBrazilian police: Hold my bear.