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> The original article was about crimes dropping in US measured across different cites and not that there is no crime. No, it was about violent crimes dropping

by Natsu 3y ago

> The original article was about crimes dropping in US measured across different cites and not that there is no crime. No, it was about violent crimes dropping and comparing that to a survey about people worried about all crime. Given that property crimes are infamously up in some places with mass looting events, those people are not being irrational or ignoring data to believe what they do. The real data point we should worry about from a policy perspective is that there are a relatively small number of people who do a lot more crime than everyone else.

vaidhy 3y ago
Unless the survey was biased towards people living in areas of high crime, I am not sure how to draw the conclusion you drew. The last sentence seems to be a dog whistle for something else.
- Natsu 3y ago
  > Unless the survey was biased towards people living in areas of high crime, I am not sure how to draw the conclusion you drew. You don't need any such bias to understand there's a difference between all crime & violent crime and that comparing the two measures of entirely different things is not valid. > The last sentence seems to be a dog whistle for something else. I was referring to this story about how about one third of all shoplifting in NYC was done by 327 people: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyregion/shoplifting-arrests-nyc.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyregion/shoplifting-arre... Please retract your incorrect accusations.