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Originally Posted by Pugchief
LOL, no. If the previous data included ALL cities, and the you take out some cities, the trend is not real. You have to compare ALL cities in the baseline year to ALL cities in the comparison year to actually see the true trend. Which they didn't do.
And to make matters worse, the police aren't responding to as many calls or making as many arrests due to pressure from above. Then prosecutors aren't filing the same degree of charges on rare occasions when they actually prosecute. All leading to more fake comparisons over given time frames.
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You are right, I did not make the point I intended vary well, if you accept the FBI data as accurate and then the base data used is modified, it calls into question its reliability, I put an "IF " in there and should have expanded on that , my bad