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Murder rates are useful for estimating the prevalence of violent crime, and crime overall, because they're almost always recorded. Compare to something like sho
by pjscott 5y ago
Murder rates are useful for estimating the prevalence of violent crime, and crime overall, because they're almost always recorded. Compare to something like shoplifting in San Francisco: the number of incidents reported to the police is probably a big underestimate of how often it happens, since the police can't really do much.
- TameAntelope 5y agoMurder is not a useful measurement of overall crime, considering how disparately (both geographically and demographically) murder is spread through a city. Like I said, if you're not interacting with a gang in a given city, you are substantially less likely to be murdered.