Spyke
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Crime statistics can be very easily manipulated.

Experts agree that the single most reliable indicator to reliably measure violence in a society is the homicide rate.

You can't hide bodies.

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In the UK it's the coroner who makes that descision (unless, e.g. someone dies in hospital and a doctor can see what they died of), and they're independent of the police, so it'd become a multi-agency coverup if they were doing that.

It's the Met, though, so they might just not notice bodies in the first place or be able to add up the numbers they get from the coroner once they get into double figures. For an organisation so institutionally incompetant as the Met, you have to apply Hanlon's Razor by default.

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All the missing indigenous women in Canada say otherwise.

But you're right, homicide rate is a great indicator of violence in society. London is much more densely populated and interconnected while Canada has lots of places to hide bodies.

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Can't afford fancy knives anymore, the home made ones just aren't that good for the stabbing.

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Notice that most of that graph is from the tail end of the previous Labour government, and now it's only just back to where it was before the Tories got in and fucked everyone.

Not that I have anything positive to say about the current government.

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I wonder if the congestion charge has contributed to this at all? It would be interesting to see if the number is in New York or down as well, since they implemented something similar.

It’s theorized that leaded gas was a great contributor to crime. There could be other things in car exhaust influencing hormones, brain damage, and violence

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