Ran across an interesting observation a little while ago that while homicides—deaths—have been dropping, that doesn't necessarily mean that 'the streets' have g

Ran across an interesting observation a little while ago that while homicides—deaths—have been dropping, that doesn't necessarily mean that 'the streets' have gotten safer: > That's how good trauma surgeons are now. They're looking for solutions [to gun deaths] outside the hospital. > Now, think about the implications of that in a place like Washington, DC. In the last 30 years, the number of homicides in Washington in a typical year has been cut in half. People look at that statistic and say, "Oh, the city's gotten a lot safer." But isn't some part of that decline simply that Eddie Cornwell and Mallory Williams and all the other trauma surgeons of Washington, DC are now saving lives that were once lost? > A city's murder rate is not a measure of the number of people victimized by potentially lethal violence. No. It's a measure of the number of people victimized by potentially lethal violence minus how good a job doctors do at saving that person's life once they get to the hospital. * https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/guns-part-4-moral-hazard https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/guns-par... * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl7c_O_XtfU&t=12m27s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl7c_O_XtfU&t=12m27s [audio-only] Statistics on non-fatal shootings are not reported on / examined as much: * https://centerforimprovinginvestigations.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/NFS-Article-Huebner-and-Hipple-July-2018-NRTAC.pdf https://centerforimprovinginvestigations.org/wp-content/uplo...