Post B12RJQigD3OmjyuUHA by whophd@ioc.exchange
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(DIR) Post #B11o7TFp41YwujidMW by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-12-08T05:01:26Z
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Watching one of those stupid crime shows (boyf likes them), an American murdered on Mexico, states "94.3 percent of murders in Mexico go unsolved!" Scary Mexico!Ok... What's the rate in the US? 98 percent of murders in the US are unsolved. https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/08/20/police-solve-just-2-of-all-major-crimes/
(DIR) Post #B122Z14cpZzkypVhZY by Research_FTW@sciences.social
2025-12-08T07:43:14Z
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@tomjennings maybe that's why they need all those fictional crime dramas where people actually solve crimes. It's like propaganda for policing. As we know they are really only there to protect the rich.
(DIR) Post #B12Bwk3ycsrAlDaxPs by antirs@expressional.social
2025-12-08T09:28:21Z
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@tomjennings That is a crazy statistic. From a quick look at the Danish ministry of justice, the rate of murders that leads to conviction is 73%, with 7% leading to release, and 8% unsolved (This is for the period of 2017-2021). I'm not sure if that's entirely comparable, as I suppose the 98% rate is over all time, and these numbers are more limited in time.Source here, but in Danish (p.14): https://www.justitsministeriet.dk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Drab-i-Danmark-2017-2021_WT.pdf
(DIR) Post #B12RJQigD3OmjyuUHA by whophd@ioc.exchange
2025-12-08T12:20:33Z
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@tomjennings @europlus Best question in statistics in media: “Is that a large number?”
(DIR) Post #B13YVEBrVqgAC55njk by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-12-09T01:15:52Z
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@whophdLol! @europlus
(DIR) Post #B1IAyoIgqrsP3ZG4xM by whophd@ioc.exchange
2025-12-16T02:32:53Z
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@tomjennings @europlus Made famous by a podcast (that's so old it wasn't a podcast when it started): BBC's "More or Less"