• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    282·
    1 month ago

    That’s not correct. There were 15% more homicides in 2024 than in 2015 but the homicide rate went down since the peak of the 2020 crime wave.

    • Limcon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      143·
      1 month ago

      The data showed on that image contradicts this, it says “percentage change in homicides and police killings since 2015”. This is very clear language, “since 2015, this is the percentage change in homicides and police killings”, not “difference between homicides and police killings in this year to 2015”.

      I’m talking about the original chart, not this chart specifically, the language is implying different things, probably showing things that are not real, based on the text that was given.

      • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        Percent changed compared to 2015 would be better, but choosing a graph like this makes no sense if it would have been change yoy and also if that were the case then starting at 0% makes no sense.

        • Limcon@lemmy.mlEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          I agree.

          The vague wording is bad, I think they should just use the absolute values and another one with the percentages, that would make it a lot clearer.

    • hikeandbike@midwest.socialEnglish
      114·
      1 month ago

      Murder rate

      a quantity, amount, or degree of something measured per unit of something else

      - Merriam-Webster (emphasis mine)

      Both police killings and murders are increasing, but police murders are increasing faster year over year than homicides are increasing.

      Regardless of the administration, the US is increasingly a police state controlled by an oligarchy.

    • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      Seems like the same 2020 high happened in Sweden, UK, Netherlands, … (1). Perhaps covid (and lockdown) related?