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Re:Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games by mikeyouse on Friday July 07, 2023 @10:46AM (#36632532)
Yeah except for this conversation, we're clearly talking about violent crime which increased in Oakland at a rate far greater than it did in SF.. and I can't imagine your contention that the people of San Francisco are less likely to report violent crime compared to people living 10 miles away..
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Re:Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games by kjkjadksj on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:58AM (#36633678)
To be fair, theres no way to reliably control for the affect of the da without a parallel universe with a weak on crime oakland da. Especially when certain violent crimes like murder are so rare in the population to begin with where a single multiple shooting event could skew things significantly year over year.
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Re:Charter schools, social norming and zero-sum games by mikeyouse on Friday July 07, 2023 @12:07PM (#36633822)
Yep. No argument there. Which definitely cuts both ways though. The 'weak on crime' DA in SF was lambasted and ultimately recalled for a crime spike that was smaller in magnitude than the crime spike in much of the country in areas with all manner of DAs and Policing policies.
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