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You have to be careful with stats. There's an incentive to manipulate crime stats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/12/12/dc-police...




I could buy that for some crimes, but e.g. murder is pretty hard to manipulate.

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If that actually happened often enough to skew the stats, it would get a huge amount of attention.



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