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		dahfizz on Feb 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Seattle could become the first city to ban caste d... These statistics are fundamentally untrustworthy. Nobody reports crimes if they know that the police and the DA don't care.

drewrv on Feb 23, 2023 [–]

Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter is a pretty reliable metric, since police get called and they actually have to show up when there's a dead body.

Seattle ranks 77th when you sort by that column!

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