Anonymous wrote:These statistics are dubious due to underreporting of violent crime and a completely incompetent prosecutors office. IMO, the only reliable indicator of violent crime is the murder rate. Being murdered is a more objective indicator of crime that is less subject to manipulation and underreporting.
Anonymous wrote:OP - I don't think crime statistics really matter to most posters here. They hate cities, including the District, and will argue to the end that urban areas are miserable and dangerous.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP - I don't think crime statistics really matter to most posters here. They hate cities, including the District, and will argue to the end that urban areas are miserable and dangerous.
Love DC and remember what it was like in the 10s. Every year saw improvement. Then a massive, staggering decline accompanied by lies that what we could all see and experience wasn’t happening. Would love to get back to the previous era.
Anonymous wrote:OP - I don't think crime statistics really matter to most posters here. They hate cities, including the District, and will argue to the end that urban areas are miserable and dangerous.
Anonymous wrote:Fixed it reported crime is the lowest in 30 years and AUSA has prosecuted the lowest number of cases. If not for January 6th folks would probably be single digits.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:^^^
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
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.
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 .
Anonymous wrote:These statistics are dubious due to underreporting of violent crime and a completely incompetent prosecutors office. IMO, the only reliable indicator of violent crime is the murder rate. Being murdered is a more objective indicator of crime that is less subject to manipulation and underreporting.