NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

Re:NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break fr... by unethical_ban on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:50PM (#28361305)

Well, that's a "technically" while still missing the point. It is much more difficult to meaningfully shift murder rate numbers via mass mis-reporting, compared to other statistics.

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Re:NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break fr... by haimez on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:56PM (#28363156)

I don’t think you’ve meaningfully proved that claim. The point was that you can, in fact, quite easily game stats even for murder. I’ll add this[1] as another example.

[1] - https://www.vox.com/world/2015/12/13/9989250/japan-crime-con...

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Re:NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break fr... by runnerup on Monday August 30, 2021 @11:23PM (#28363624)

To steelman this argument, I'd say it's hard to hide "excess deaths" across all causes lumped together. Although during covid we probably even managed to do that by reducing miles driven and presumably # of road deaths.

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