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gmcgath t1_j0zxk7g wrote

An increase from 19 to 34 spread over the state for a year is basically noise. Next year it might drop to 17 and people will brag the number was "cut in half." It doesn't mean much.

For a similar mistreatment of statistics from the right, see this piece on the Burlington, VT "crime wave".

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