• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    That’s not correct. There were 15% more homicides in 2024 than in 2015 but the homicide rate went down since the peak of the 2020 crime wave.

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        3 months ago

        Percent changed compared to 2015 would be better, but choosing a graph like this makes no sense if it would have been change yoy and also if that were the case then starting at 0% makes no sense.

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      3 months ago

      Murder rate

      a quantity, amount, or degree of something measured per unit of something else

      - Merriam-Webster (emphasis mine)

      Both police killings and murders are increasing, but police murders are increasing faster year over year than homicides are increasing.

      Regardless of the administration, the US is increasingly a police state controlled by an oligarchy.

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      3 months ago

      Seems like the same 2020 high happened in Sweden, UK, Netherlands, … (1). Perhaps covid (and lockdown) related?