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Make sure to also add up attempted murders, assaults with deadly weapon and things like that. If you don't, every time medicine improves, it will look like peo
by saint_fiasco 2y ago
Make sure to also add up attempted murders, assaults with deadly weapon and things like that.
If you don't, every time medicine improves, it will look like people are less murderous. In reality the victims might just have access to better hospitals.
- alan-hn 2y agoThat is why I mentioned "general violent crime"
- saint_fiasco 2y agoBut the reason you mentioned murder in the first place is that, unlike general violent crime, it always gets reported. So it turns out that both measures are kind of hard to use, for different reasons. Personally, that's no reason to be solipsistic about it. I can still form coherent ideas about whether or not there is more crime than usual. But it does leave enough wiggle room for people to lie about the issue for political reasons, in whichever direction you least prefer.