Let's say you live in a city that has three types of crime only. You have in a year; 30 murders, 100 assaults, and 420 weed related crime. You then legalize weed and in the next year you have; 35 murders, 140 assaults and 0 weed related crimes. The lying media, being the activists that they are say that crimes have dropped by two thirds, but in reality the types of crime that you actually care about the numbers for have gone up a quarter.
I'm saying if it does then it can easily be hidden by aggregating different types of crimes together, so if someone is all "lower crime rates" I want to see those numbers broken out by type of crime rather than total crime.
e: for example if you look at Denver, since Marijuana has been legalized for recreational use violent crime has increased while in the US on average it has decreased.
The numbers I used went to 2019 which was before cities decided to not enforce laws, so no. And it was a short journey from "legalizing marijuana lowers crime rates" to "those increases in crime rates haven't been proven to be connected to marijuana being legalized. it's been debooonked!"
Let's say you live in a city that has three types of crime only. You have in a year; 30 murders, 100 assaults, and 420 weed related crime. You then legalize weed and in the next year you have; 35 murders, 140 assaults and 0 weed related crimes. The lying media, being the activists that they are say that crimes have dropped by two thirds, but in reality the types of crime that you actually care about the numbers for have gone up a quarter.
Are you saying that legalizing weed led to an increase in violent crime?
I'm not trying to put words in your mouth but that sounds like what you're saying.
I'm saying if it does then it can easily be hidden by aggregating different types of crimes together, so if someone is all "lower crime rates" I want to see those numbers broken out by type of crime rather than total crime.
e: for example if you look at Denver, since Marijuana has been legalized for recreational use violent crime has increased while in the US on average it has decreased.
Violent crime is up in almost every major metropolitan area in the country. Claiming that has anything to do with legalizing weed is ridiculous.
The numbers I used went to 2019 which was before cities decided to not enforce laws, so no. And it was a short journey from "legalizing marijuana lowers crime rates" to "those increases in crime rates haven't been proven to be connected to marijuana being legalized. it's been debooonked!"