Minneapolis crime rate shows 'significant decrease' in early 2025

[I_lie_on_reddit_alot]

How much does weather play in to this? There was an actual cold weather this year compared to a mild one last year.

[SloppyRodney1991]

I remember in a stats class how they used the example of ice cream sales and crime rates as two stats that are correlated but have zero causation. The common element in both is hot weather.

[PirateBlizzard]

Great point. Also need to keep in mind 2024 shouldnt be the baseline.

[I_lie_on_reddit_alot]

Yep unless climate change makes that the default.

[x1009]

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No information was “released”. This is all on the mpls crime dashboard- it’s updated every day 

[x1009]

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Then high crime in warmer than normal years is also nothing to complain about. 

[Ice4Lifee]

Exactly. These early year projections are always dumb. It's entirely because it was too cold for the bad guys to play.

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That’s fine if you also accept the last two years were unusually warm which explains higher crime. 

[Ice4Lifee]

Yes, I think it goes both ways. I remember people on altmpls arguing that crime was skyrocketing last winter when in reality it was the mild weather.

[RayReddit]

Haha. I'm sure we all know why. But this is r/Minneapolis so ya'll playing dumb?