‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists

Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by throwaway0a5e on Friday October 15, 2021 @10:59AM (#28878407)

"people who's primary source of earned income is the sale of transportation of illegal substances"

Usually this group shows up in stats as "gang related crime" or something like that.

Basically it's all the violence that lawful businesses don't need to use to settle business disputes because they can use the courts and threat of state violence to settle their disputes instead whereas the drug industry needs to bring it in-house.

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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by anders_p on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:35PM (#28880497)

But why remove that demographic from the US statistic, before comparing with other nations?

Isn't that a bit disingenuous?

I'd imagine you'd see similar improvement in other countries stats, if you remove the poorest and the drug gangs.

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Re:‘I hope you die’: how the Covid pandemic unleashed attack... by goto11 on Saturday October 16, 2021 @10:15AM (#28888023)

So if you remove drug-related crime from the statistics, suddenly US look a lot less violent? That is a great way to solve the problem!

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