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2023-04-18 02:11:34 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

Crime rates per capita are very often misleading. It assumes that an increase in crime is linear, very often it is not. Larger populations tend to have a higher crime. https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40163-021-00155-8 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

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• Crime rates per capita are very often misleading. It assumes that an increase in crime is linear, very often it is not. Larger populations tend to have a higher crime. https://crimesciencejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40163-021-00155-8 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate