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Originally Posted by Rutuu
No offense to your post...but I thought the only crime statistics that were close to legit were car theft/homicide. All the rest who knows if you're actually getting people reporting the crime.
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No offense taken. Statistics are only as good as the information collected. A lot of the information in question is impacted by cultural assumptions and failures to report such crimes. You are inaccurate on the car theft/homicide stats though. They are no more or no less accurate than any of the data collected through law enforcement compstat. All are dependent on people reporting the crime and there are all sorts of factors that go into whether a crime is reported or not.