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How is this relevant? e.g. Whether there are 1000 stabbing victims per year, or 5000, a low clearance rate means there are still many victims that can only pou
by MichaelZuo 1y ago
How is this relevant?
e.g. Whether there are 1000 stabbing victims per year, or 5000, a low clearance rate means there are still many victims that can only pound sand, without even a remote prospect of seeing any action taken.
- FridayoLeary 1y agoIt's very relevant. Prevention is the best cure. One set of statistics might paint a grim picture, but a different set might be far more encouraging (of course these could have been fudged but i'm taking op at his word), if violent crime is falling people are safer even if the police are doing a worse job and that's much more important. This runs deeper then that. It's a common theme for people to complain how everything is worse now and the gradual failure of institutions. Any positive news should be highlighted and celebrated. I'm not saying to ignore the problems, but it's important to get a better perspective.
- matthewdgreen 1y agoIt means that violent crime is less and less of a problem. I don’t even understand the question.
- idiotsecant 1y agoAn 95% clearance rate with 100 crimes leaves the same number of unresolved cases as a 0% clearance rate with 5 crimes. If you have fewer crimes you don't have to spend as much money prosecuting them to get the same results.
- MichaelZuo 1y agoAs long it’s more than single digit cases per year per city not getting cleared, it seems practically irrelevant to car theft recovery what the number is beyond that. Since police forces have finite staffing and budgets. Anyone proposing extra resources to be spent or diverted to car thefts would not be taken seriously, if it’s clearly insufficient to even clear most violent cases.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 1y agoThis assumes no feedback loops such as those found in the real world. Like "criminal who doesn't get caught does more crime"
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