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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by tjr225 on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:17PM (#20780684)
No such thing was done. You can find instances of awful stuff happening in any city- anywhere in the world. This is exactly what makes statistics useful.
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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by drak0n1c on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:00PM (#20783581)
Statistics can be misleading. The vast majority of incidents aren't reported, and if they are filed they are filed under generic labels.
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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by memmcgee on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:46PM (#20783967)
But anecdotes can be misleading too. The only thing left then is ideology.
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