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piva00 on April 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged kil...

> Citing murder rates (and ignoring other crimes) is one of the preferred tactics of people who want to say that big cities have low crime rates.

People in this thread are specifically talking about violent crimes, not all crimes, which murder rate seems to be one of the good metrics to use, no?

pclmulqdq on April 13, 2023 [–]

No, because they don't correlate with violent crime rates, which are also tracked. Murder is actually a really weird crime: if basically never happens between people who don't know each other.

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