Victorian Gray
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As was pointed out before, a lot of violent crime indicators are not properly reported in the first place, or deliberately skewed and under reported or mischaracterized for a myriad number of reasons, such as to make a large city more appealing to keep and attract business and keep the property values higher.
What about the added violent crime statistics when law enforcement initiates it (like during no knock warrants) when they intentionally brutalize and even murder often innocent people they happen to come across? I would imagine all those violent law enforcement incidents are not going to be added to the local violent crime stats, because then the police and the feds would be actually driving the violent crime stats way up, not down. So you can certainly bet that all those police initiated violent crime stats are not going to be properly reported and mischaracterized.
Now you get to provide documented proof that there is a multi year pattern of deliberate skewing and under reporting, etc. and that it happens on a consistent basis and on a large enough scale to actually affect the overall statistics in a meaningful way.
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