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YamPsychological9471 t1_ixupkxy wrote

Reply to comment by Kabloosh75 in 16-year-old girl injured in Southwest Philadelphia shooting, police say by CompletePen8

I don’t understand your logic. The example you provide between a population of 100 with 1 crime vs. a population of 1million with 1000 crimes shows that the smaller population has 10x the crime rate.

You are statistically more likely to be a victim of crime where the crime rate is 1% vs .1%. Just because the absolute numbers are bigger doesn’t make them scarier. It shows there’s something different between the populations causing the difference in the rates.

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Kabloosh75 t1_ixupp5d wrote

If we focus on crime rate only would you invest more resources to stop that 1 crime or would you invest the resources to stop the 1000 crimes?

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YamPsychological9471 t1_ixur2oa wrote

Are you asking me what I would personally do? That sounds like a false dichotomy.

Or are you asking in what scenario more resources would be used to address the crime? It’d be absolutely more resources to stop the 1000 crimes, but relatively more resources to stop the 1 crime (per capita).

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