Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:19PM
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Sounds like a good definition to me. I just don’t think it increased 96% in one year. It’s much more likely that they were cooking the numbers the previous years and had to come clean eventually.
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Re:Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs
by chimeracoder on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @12:27PM
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> I just don’t think it increased 96% in four years. It’s much more likely that they were cooking the numbers the previous years and had to come clean eventually.
It's quite a leap of logic to look at an increase in chronic homelessness after ending a program that empirically reduced chronic homelessness using a straightforward mechanism, and conclude that the most probable explanation is "outright fraud, necessitating a decade-long conspiracy involving many people and organizations with opposing goals collaborating with each other, and which somehow has resulted in zero tangible evidence surfacing even years after the alleged conspiracy fell apart".