Why Punish? - Hackdot

Re:Why Punish? by DiggyJohnson on Saturday July 30, 2022 @02:15PM (#32289001)

Do you have any numbers that shows this? To discuss the disproportionate rise in crime in progressive DAs’ cities isn’t to ignore the rise in crime across the board.

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Re:Why Punish? by 57457802 on Saturday July 30, 2022 @02:37PM (#32289188)

Some relevant links:

https://www.ppic.org/publication/crime-trends-in-california/

https://citycrimestats.com/statistics/

https://applieddivinitystudies.com/sf-crime-2/

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Re:Why Punish? by gruez on Saturday July 30, 2022 @04:46PM (#32290126)

Except for property crimes, there are reason to believe that the official statistics are totally unrepresentative of actual number of crimes committed. For instance: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/shoplifting-data-Targ...

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Re:Why Punish? by 57457802 on Saturday July 30, 2022 @05:03PM (#32290305)

Sure, the statistics are not very good, but we don't have anything better. We have some evidence that property crime has gone down relative to other parts of the country (and much better evidence for homicide, which doesn't have the same under-reporting risk), and no evidence (as far as I know) for the opposite.

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