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Israel-Gaza Megathread #3
This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.
The U.S. murder rate reached a low in 2014 and has increased by 75% since (as of 2021 - probably higher now).
Any other crime data is a joke. Do you think crime-ridden cities like San Francisco and Baltimore are accurately tallying anything that's not murder? And even if they did, crime reporting tools like the ones offered by the FBI have been gimped since Biden took over.
Given what we know about murder, and how people who commit murders tend to have also committed a litany of other violent crimes, the murder rate is best proxy for the overall crime rate we have. If anything, it undersells the problem as advances in medical care turn would-be murder victims into attempted murder victims.
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. I was really frustrated by the BJS toolset, which I am sure contains that information. It’s also supposed to have the FBI’s murder data, but really didn’t want to display it to me.
As for the accuracy of non-murder crimes, I don’t know why we should expect a bias to change in any particular year. I could rationalize a dip, but it’d be post-hoc.
If you have X murder and Y petty thefts, an increase in X will likely reduce policing re petty thefts. So assuming resources are constant increased murders would likely lead to less reporting of petty thefts.
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The U.S. murder rate reached a low in 2014 and has increased by 75% since (as of 2021 - probably higher now).
Any other crime data is a joke. Do you think crime-ridden cities like San Francisco and Baltimore are accurately tallying anything that's not murder? And even if they did, crime reporting tools like the ones offered by the FBI have been gimped since Biden took over.
Given what we know about murder, and how people who commit murders tend to have also committed a litany of other violent crimes, the murder rate is best proxy for the overall crime rate we have. If anything, it undersells the problem as advances in medical care turn would-be murder victims into attempted murder victims.
The homicide rate in ‘shithole’ cities rose since 2014, but in NYC (America’s first city) declined to 2018/2019 before shooting up.
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SF's murder rate is about 1/9 that of Baltimore and lower than that of Dallas, Houston, Cincinnati and most other major cities other than NYC.
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Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. I was really frustrated by the BJS toolset, which I am sure contains that information. It’s also supposed to have the FBI’s murder data, but really didn’t want to display it to me.
As for the accuracy of non-murder crimes, I don’t know why we should expect a bias to change in any particular year. I could rationalize a dip, but it’d be post-hoc.
If you have X murder and Y petty thefts, an increase in X will likely reduce policing re petty thefts. So assuming resources are constant increased murders would likely lead to less reporting of petty thefts.
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The murder rate has actually decreased since 2021.
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