Crime Statistics Reliability
The cluster debates the accuracy and trustworthiness of crime statistics, emphasizing that most crimes are underreported while murder rates are considered the only reliable metric due to low reporting optionality.
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do you have statistics/links for this "crime not being lower, only reporting is lower" claim?
Unreported crimes aren't factored into the stats you quote.
You're assuming that crime is reported with the same reliability.
This is a bunch of anecdotal bullshit, crime rate statistics paint a much different picture
Shouldn't you be looking for these numbers as a percent of total crime?
Crime stats do indeed have the obvious problem that when crime is pervasive people stop reporting because reporting just exacerbates the harm of the crime by wasting your time.One way to deal with this is to look only at murder stats, as there is a lot less reporting optionality there.Unfortunately, that method is biased by changes the ratio of murders to other crimes. And particularly when the hypothesis is that there is rampant lawlessness and property crime as a result of law enforceme
The only crime statistic that is pretty reliable is the murder rate. The vast majority of murder victims are found.For lesser crimes the numbers can't be trusted. Many victims don't bother to file reports because they're afraid or they don't believe that law enforcement will act. Some police forces even have an unofficial policy of discouraging victims from filing official reports in order to minimize workload and make their statistics look better.
Not really. Check the violent crime stats before making such claims.
You keep using bad data. Only look at murder rates. Murder is the only crime that is reliably recorded.https://www.statista.com/statistics/191223/reported-murder-a...
Where are these conviction rate statistics from? What are they measuring? (is it reporting of crime to a conviction on that crime?)