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your statement that "the murder rate... is lowest in countries with low immigration rates per capita" is largely bullshit. Even the laziest of googling "crime
by webnrrd2k 3y ago
your statement that "the murder rate... is lowest in countries with low immigration rates per capita" is largely bullshit. Even the laziest of googling "crime and immigration rates per capita" shows that.
At best, the relationship is weak, and not well understood.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoIt's pretty strong in this list. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti... Crime and poverty being linked is not poorly understood. It's pretty well known. Therefore importing poverty increases crime as it increases poverty, regardless of your moral sentiment. The US is simply more successful at importing poverty and assimilating class disparity than other countries.
- webnrrd2k 3y agoThis connection is even more tenuous than your original claim that "the murder rate... lowest in countries with low immigration rates per capita". Now you're talking about crime and poverty, not murder and immigration. Also, the first paragraph of you link explicitly says: "reliability of underlying national murder rate data may vary". I think k your argument is largely bs, and I'm not interested in researching the citations. The second paragraph reads "Research suggests that intentional homicide demographics are affected by changes in trauma care, leading to changed lethality of violent assaults, so the intentional homicide rate may not necessarily indicate the overall level of societal violence.[6] They may also be under-reported for political reasons." I don't think this list even makes the point that you seem to think it does, or, at least, doesn't make the point very well.