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They list the total numbers for "sexual violations against children" in the year 1999 as 1 and in 2002 as zero. You can even google news stories from 2002 and find dozens of pedos and yet, somehow they don't show up in these statistics. You can even click on the footnote to see the definition of "sexual violations against children" and read:

"Sexual violations against children is a new crime category with only partial data available prior to 2008. As a result, numbers and rates should not be directly compared to data from previous years."

So much for your infinite increase.

Same goes for crimes like kidnapping. There are no numbers before 2008. Seems like 2010 was the first complete year and since then they are more or less the same.

This is just picking an choosing. I could pick "Forcible confinement or kidnapping" and ... look it's down from 1,872 cases in 2008 to 1 in 2019. Seems like we live in a crime free paradise.

https://imgur.com/JrJlLNp.png

And then you read the footnote and can see that "Forcible confinement or kidnapping" was split into two categories in 2008. And the two categories are "forcible confinement" and "kidnapping". That's why you don't have any new cases of "forcible confinement and kidnapping" since 2008. So you have to compare these two categories to the older one to get an overview, which you didn't do.

If you look at the big ones, homicide, sexual assault, attempted murder, robbery, assault ... all rates are down significantly since the 90s. There are some new categories which are growing like internet crime, but there will be always categories coming and going.

3 years ago
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They list the total numbers for "sexual violations against children" in the year 1999 as 1 and in 2002 as zero. You can even google news stories from 2002 and find dozens of pedos and yet, somehow they don't show up in these statistics. You can even click on the footnote to see the definition of "sexual violations against children" and read:

"Sexual violations against children is a new crime category with only partial data available prior to 2008. As a result, numbers and rates should not be directly compared to data from previous years."

Same goes for crimes like kidnapping. There are no numbers before 2008. Seems like 2010 was the first complete year and since then they are more or less the same.

This is just picking an choosing. I could pick "Forcible confinement or kidnapping" and ... look it's down from 1,872 cases in 2008 to 1 in 2019. Seems like we live in a crime free paradise.

https://imgur.com/JrJlLNp.png

And then you read the footnote and can see that "Forcible confinement or kidnapping" was split into two categories in 2008. And the two categories are "forcible confinement" and "kidnapping". That's why you don't have any new cases of "forcible confinement and kidnapping" since 2008. So you have to compare these two categories to the older one to get an overview, which you didn't do.

If you look at the big ones, homicide, sexual assault, attempted murder, robbery, assault ... all rates are down significantly since the 90s. There are some new categories which are growing like internet crime, but there will be always categories coming and going.

3 years ago
1 score