Murder and other violent crime dropped across the U.S. last year, FBI data shows

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Don’t worry
hate crime was up so we got that going for us.

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/04/hate-crimes-record-2023-black-antisemitism-muslim

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What? But red tie guy said it’s up!

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It is well known that many major cities are simply not reporting crime stats to our DOJ.

That has been reported on numerous web sites including major Newspapers.

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Wait for it

. lol.

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I’m sure there are cities that juke the stats. However everything I’ve heard about cities not reporting (such as New Orleans), appears to be false


https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/home

Go look up any city you think wasn’t reporting and see.

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I think they are focusing on something that happened in 2021 that no longer takes place.

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I did see something on x recently where the person claimed no murders reported by new Orleans and one other city and a person responded with that link and screen shot showing the actual number report e was in the 200 or 300 range for each city. So I’m sure some people are hearing the first without checking.

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Feel safer already, so I can leave my dagger at home, just need to carry my piece.

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You should carry your peace instead.

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Or should have said, my peace maker.

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Sure you didn’t mean pace maker?

(joke
had to be done)

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I was going to make this point, US stats are broad paint brush painting.

County stats is where the truth lies

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What’s the difference? When you can drill down by city on national stats?

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Well if i bowl 230 and my teammate bowls 110, does my teammate bowl the average170, ever?

I.e. Westlake austin has a much difference crime rate than downtown or east austin, yet they are the “same city”. Just find national stats as a weird measure, especially something as city by city dependent as crime

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Sorry I don’t know the county lines for Austin. Are those three areas in different counties?

Also if you’re not looking at averages, only totals, so in your example it would be 3 people bowled, I would think it doesn’t matter as much looking at city vs county.

Assuming you’re not using metro areas.

Though I guess they do look at crimes per capita which may fall into your averaging problem.

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I think they are all in Travis county.

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Another problem with your bowling scores analogy is each murder counts as 1. So if your adding them up for a city or a county or a state, it isn’t really any sort of average.

You don’t like score each murder differently. Murder by drowning is a 120, murder by suffocation is 125, murder by gun is 270.

I will say, last time I was looking at apartments, I did get the crime data from HPD because I could narrow it down to a street or block. It was helpful.

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I just meant a town like westlake aint gonna come close to the national average. Also was just using austin as an analogy for a nation. I.e. austin has a lot of crime and drugs but a town like westlake wont ever see it