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Violent crime is a useful metric because it’s generally reported and followed. Property crime is what’s more likely to languish, leading to underreporting. So
by gumby 4y ago
Violent crime is a useful metric because it’s generally reported and followed. Property crime is what’s more likely to languish, leading to underreporting.
So ppl who study crime incidence use violent crime as the like-to-like bellwether.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoThe whole reporting rate thing is mostly irrelevant IMO. It's the relative rate of property crime vs violent crime that matters. Violent crime is not generally directed at a broad of a cross section of the population like property crime is. Violent crime is dominated by people settling disputes that can't be settled in court. To your average techie who'd never think about rounding up a couple buddies and home invading the dude that sold them cut drugs SF's relatively high property crime rate makes it "feel rough" even if the violent crime rate isn't that remarkable.