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Paul McLellan's avatar

As someone who lived in San Francisco, and had various thefts, there is another phenomenon, since people stop bothering to report crime because why make the effort. So it is not just changing the statistics. The only statistic I think is credible is murder, since police can't ignore it and (mostly) there is a dead body so hard to mess up the counting.

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Orwell’s Rabbit's avatar

Even the statistics on murder are not reliable because Soros-backed prosecutors routinely reduce murder charges to manslaughter/aggravated assault/criminal negligence causing bodily harm, etc. — and this doesn’t even include defendants who plead to a lesser charge (even though they would have been charged with murder by an old-school DA.

When a DA has “social justice” as the primary mission, we can’t even expect “murder” to be charged as such, even when there is a corpse.

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Sean S.'s avatar

Crime statistics are reported by police departments. What DA decides to charge a defendant with has no bearing on the Uniform Crime Reporting system. The crime reported is whatever the investigating officer chooses.

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Julinthecrown's avatar

'Newspeak' - Without a word for freedom, for example, the concept of freedom cannot exist.

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