The other thing it doesn’t take into account is that the stats are the product of: 1) Crimes that are actually reported to the police 2) The subset of the abo

The other thing it doesn’t take into account is that the stats are the product of: 1) Crimes that are actually reported to the police 2) The subset of the above that the police accepts a report on and chooses to tell us about It seems obvious at first glance that those numbers are highly dependent on a bunch if things, and there’s plenty of ways the final number would get divorced from a close coupling with the “actual” real world number. Or said a different way. Taking that as an argument has as a premise that you trust the police, which seems incompatible with other parts of the same open conversation we’re having about all this.