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Originally Posted by Letum
I'm an idiot.
The graph also shows violent crime peaking in the early 90s.
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Yep. You aren't seeing enough of it. It was on an upward trend since the 40's. This was the argument people used to push CCP permits through. Shortly after, crime began to recede. Today, it is pretty low.
As for Mookie mookies arrest sheet, that is meaningless. Maybe they decided to arrest more people for a given thing at one point when they would have got a warning before, and then stopped arresting for it later on. It is not telling you what they were arrested for. A violent crime arrest rate would be more telling.
Of course you could do like the UK and just manipulate what you are reporting to make things look better. They started doing this in the 1990's to 2000's to make it seem as if crime is going down when it fact it was rising.
Did you guys ever get that straightened out? I hope you did.
-S