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Without changing any gun laws, Oakland cuts homicides in half.


Mr. Fife

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This is the treat the violence like a virus methodology. It looks better when you use a model like Oakland because the numbers are smaller. They only needed to harass the heck out of 400 people, the .005% most likely to keep shooting people. Assuming numbers track exactly (they really don't) applying this to a large city like Chicago would mean the cops have to harass the heck out of 13500 people who they single out as the direct causes of violence.

 

The charts Gifford's uses are deceiving too. They use graphs to illustrate violence trends in large cities. The graphs are all sized equally, but the scale changes in very small type so it looks like the 100 shooting in Charlotte are just as bad as the 750 in Chicago. It's dishonest, and it ruins their credibility when the dishonesty is so transparent.

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