Re:S.F. police announce dozens of arrests in crackdown on re...
by CPLX on Sunday December 18, 2022 @11:21AM
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The other thing it doesn’t take into account is that the stats are the product of:
1) Crimes that are actually reported to the police
2) The subset of the above that the police accepts a report on and chooses to tell us about
It seems obvious at first glance that those numbers are highly dependent on a bunch if things, and there’s plenty of ways the final number would get divorced from a close coupling with the “actual” real world number.
Or said a different way. Taking that as an argument has as a premise that you trust the police, which seems incompatible with other parts of the same open conversation we’re having about all this.
1) Crimes that are actually reported to the police
2) The subset of the above that the police accepts a report on and chooses to tell us about
It seems obvious at first glance that those numbers are highly dependent on a bunch if things, and there’s plenty of ways the final number would get divorced from a close coupling with the “actual” real world number.
Or said a different way. Taking that as an argument has as a premise that you trust the police, which seems incompatible with other parts of the same open conversation we’re having about all this.