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joncranelast Thursday at 2:01 PM1 replyview on HN

To be fair, one of the reasons for the decrease in crime may be the steps taken by average people to minimize it, due to anxiety.


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medvezhenoklast Thursday at 3:09 PM

Yeah, I wonder if you plotted crime rate vs time spent outside or something like that (car accident rates are usually reported as an average of an accident / # of miles, since how much you drive changes your likelihood of being in an accident)