04-15-2021, 08:00 PM
(04-15-2021, 07:54 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: How can murders and assaults see double digit increases but crime "as a whole" is down? Are murders and violent assaults not part of "crime as a whole"? Are you forgetting that your source of choice shows "violent crime" as a category to be up in every part of the nation except areas under 10k population? That doesn't sound like crime "as a whole" is down". It looks to me like you're upset your own source put the lie to your claim.
See, that’s how percentages work. So when murder is up 25% nationally from 16k that makes it 20k or 4K increase in incidents but when rape drops 17% from 139k to 115k that’s a 24k drop in incidents. When you realize that the most heinous crimes have the lowest numbers then you can realize that large increases still make their total incident occurrence MUCH lower than other crimes which makes crime as a whole...drop.
