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Homicide rates are not the only stats used for determining violent crime rates.

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are used to calculate violent crime rates in the District of Columbia: 
Violent crime: Includes murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault 
Crime rate: Calculated as the number of crimes per 100,000 people

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) uses the DC Code Offense definitions to calculate violent crime rates in Washington, D.C. The MPD's crime data is available through a variety of sources, including:

DC Crime Cards
An online mapping application that provides up-to-date information on violent crime, including homicides, arrests, and firearm recoveries; and

Open Data DC catalog
Provides other crime data, including robbery and carjacking trends, marijuana arrests, and more

Crime rates are calculated by dividing the number of crimes by the population and multiplying by 100,000. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are the most common data source for crime statistics, listing the number of crimes reported to the police and the number of arrests made.

Other data sources for measuring crime include: victimization survey data and self-reported data[/quote]
Everyone knows that homicide is the only police stat that is trustworthy. David Simon even did a whole season of The Wire about it.

DC already jukes the stats on “violent crime” in quite obvious ways, for example, only reporting stats for ADW but not for simple and aggravated assault, which is data they are presumably providing to the FBI.[/quote]

Nono don’t think everyone knows that. Please cite your source.

Everyone I know considers rape, car jacking and armed robberies to represent violent crime: the only thing u replicable about rape stats is that they are heavily under reported .[/quote]
It is great that you think carjacking is serious. Show me where in the reported violent crime stats this “lowest in 30 years” story is based on do they report carjacking? 
https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime[/quote]

Carjacking is armed robbery. It’s very serious. This is the dumbest comment I’ve seen on the internet ever. You deserve to live like this, carjacking apologist. [/quote]

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