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It can be misleading in other ways For instance it is trivial for a country to reduce crime statistics simply by making things that used to be crimes legal
by bluefirebrand 2y ago
It can be misleading in other ways
For instance it is trivial for a country to reduce crime statistics simply by making things that used to be crimes legal
- Muromec 2y agoIt can be, but it's easy to check wheter it's true or another fascist dream, right
- germandiago 2y agoI thought we were talking data and security, not ideology.
- Terr_ 2y agoOr in the case of Russia, murders go down, and unidentified bodies that are dead for no particular reason go up by the same amount. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477370818794124?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.7 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477370818794124?ic...
- jrflowers 2y agoThat goes both ways. Crime statistics can also be inflated by making things people already do illegal, eg the various facets of prohibiting different substances that people use.
- rdm_blackhole 2y agoThere is so much petty crime that is no longer reported in France because people know the cops won't do anything about. What's the point of reporting it if you know that nothing will come out of it? I had my car broken into, my phone stolen on the train, I have been harassed on public transport. Guess how many times the perpetrators were fined/convicted? A big fat 0. And some of that stuff happened in areas with multiple "security" cameras who witnessed the whole thing.
- bitsage 2y agoWe saw NYC and SF do this to disastrous effects. Journalists had to start looking at privately collected victimization rates to get an accurate picture since crime stats were clearly being juked.