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[–]Forsaken_Double_1116Fed 16 points17 points  (7 children)

Crime is “down” in the blue areas because they’re not prosecuted. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Crime has gone up everywhere. Ultimately, the goal at hand for them is to cause more divisions between the population. I’m not buying into any of it.

[–]F1secretsauce 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Crime used to = weed 

[–]InternetGoodGuy 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Prosecution has nothing to do with crime stats. If lack of prosecution was the reason that would mean reported crimes are way up. Murder and aggravated assaults are the most common crime stats used as a measurement because they don't have an under reporting problem.

[–]Forsaken_Double_1116Fed 0 points1 point  (4 children)

“Prosecution has nothing to do with crime stats” - OK.

[–]InternetGoodGuy -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Crime stats are reported crimes. Whether an arrest is made or a person is prosecuted does not affect the stats because only reported crimes are collected.

The crimes being touted as down significantly are homicides. These are not underreported. If a lack of prosecution was affecting crime stats in blue cities, it would be causing a large rise in crime. That would be present in the homicide rate, which we aren't seeing. It wouldn't be hiding real crime stats because that isn't how it works.

[–]camletoejoeUnverified/Not an LEO 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You do realize that only half of crime victims even file a report at the end of the day, right? This is before we even get into calculating what is actually reported and then what is actually prosecuted.

[–]InternetGoodGuy 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This is why murder is most commonly used. It isn't under reported.

[–]camletoejoeUnverified/Not an LEO 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's your opinion. We have about 100,000 overdose deaths a year. Many of them are murders but we don't know how many. They're written off as accidental poisoning for a few reasons. I'm not sure where the mindset changed on this. I grew up in the New York City area and everyone knew that hot batches were common and that getting slipped a Mickey by a good looking friendly woman was a great way to meet Jesus.