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BrightThru2014 t1_ja3mxbx wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Chief: DC Police Staffing at Its Lowest in Decades by thinkcontext

Are you really this dense? I never claimed that. I said that the relative INCREASE in the murder rate in DC from 2013-2022 outpaced other cities (while the number of police officers declined), not that the absolute number was the highest in the country at any point.

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[deleted] t1_ja3nzn0 wrote

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BrightThru2014 t1_ja3xbuk wrote

On what basis do you say the rise was not more radical than any other city (and how do you separate that from other cities also losing officers during this period).

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[deleted] t1_ja3xon6 wrote

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BrightThru2014 t1_ja46gee wrote

On what basis are you claiming that the top 20 cities in the US by population had their murder rates increase by more than double from 2013-2022?

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[deleted] t1_ja47usk wrote

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BrightThru2014 t1_ja4iwla wrote

Okay so is that “no basis”?

There were 103 murders in DC in 2013 and 221 in 2021. That’s over double in 9 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Washington,_D.C.

So I guess we accept you were wrong at this stage?

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[deleted] t1_ja5bip8 wrote

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BrightThru2014 t1_ja5tzyu wrote

I’d check those numbers again buddy. And how many of those cities also had declining numbers of police officers?

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