One red flag that a crime stat reference is political baloney—the speaker picks a select few crimes (especially only one) and cites only between two dates the speaker has selected with explaining why the dates are relevant. It’s easy to cherry pick crime stats & conflate correlation w/ causation.
Stephen Hardwick
Unless it’s an academic taking a careful and deep dive into years of numbers for a range of offenses, most references to crime stats in the media are bunk.
