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1. erkt · 1790557944 · focus · HN ↗

   Failure to prosecute crime leads to crime stat drops.

   1. jdlshore · 1790558813 · focus · HN ↗

      Are you claiming that’s what happening, or just engaging in ominous speculation?

      1. hn_throwaway_99 · 1790560059 · focus · HN ↗

         I think we know the answer to that one...

         Besides, GP is flat out wrong - not prosecuting crime does not result in reduced crime stats. The crime decline is led be a relatively huge 15% reduction in homicides. Even if those homicides remain unsolved or are not prosecuted, they still end up in crime stats. And unlike other crimes where you may argue they go unreported, when someone ends up dead (by usually violent means in a homicide) it rarely goes unnoticed.

         1. coldtea · 1790584141 · focus · HN ↗

            >And unlike other crimes where you may argue they go unreported, when someone ends up dead (by usually violent means in a homicide) it rarely goes unnoticed.

            Unless they're just ignored as "missing persons".

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