• remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    A ton of crime does go unreported in general, so yeah. Numbers for crimes that are less severe than murder are probably way off.

    Murder numbers would be fairly accurate, I would imagine. If those numbers are significantly off, there are some serious issues with reporting.

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. We aren’t reporting any crime. Like when the cops are told to round up the homeless because it’s cutting into the city’s corrupt recycling program, so they arrest them for nothing just to get them off the street.

      We are talking murders. People don’t not report them. And if someone goes missing, we don’t typically just let it go either.

      Theft and assault? Those are going to be all over the map. But murders tend to be really accurate and sort of impervious to the “dark figure of crime.”