Homicides in U.S. set to drop by record numbers this year

Post by SV_BubbleTime » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 2:48 AM UTC

D13Fd wrote: post #64

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Almost all police activity is there to document crime not to prevent it. And yes. They’re full of crap here. To the best of my knowledge not once has a recovered shell been matched to the the case casing library system - it was so ineffective that they dropped it after at least a decade of forcing mfgs to supply two shell casings with every handgun made. Shell casings are basically only good for additional evidence,…

> Almost all police activity is there to document crime not to prevent it. You say this like it's a bad thing (to the extent it's even true). One of the main purposes of the criminal justice system is to deter crime, and in order for the criminal justice system to work, someone has to be supplying the information.

Post by rufus_foreman » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 5:19 AM UTC

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Internationally, there is evidence that COVID decreased rather than increased crime rates. One example: "We collected data on daily counts of crime in 27 cities across 23 countries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We conducted interrupted time series analyses to assess the impact of stay-at-home restrictions on different types of crime in each city. Our findings show that the stay-at-home policies w…

> What evidence is there that COVID was the cause of increased crime rates in the US? The timing of the spike? Your link is specific to “stay at home policies”, correctly notes even those were short-lived, and that their relaxation in June/July/August saw the impact of those undone.