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Originally Posted by Stimpy
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.
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Wouldn't homicides be much more likely to be reported than any other crime? I mean you can't pull the 'I ran into the door' with a dead body. Obviously there are people who simply disappear and nothing is ever reported, but those cases are likely fairly low in number.