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Old 06-26-2018, 12:43 PM
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Everything is lumped together in those claims. A person that gets in dozens of incedents throws off the actual stats. None of those were taken by census, the only true way to tell who have been a victim of crime. A LEO may have hundreds of incidents over their life, that does not relate to law abiding citizens that do not live in high crime locations. Domestic violence also factors in, the same people are involved over, and over again. A person that reports abuse once a month over years does not relate to law abiding citizens in non violent relationships.

Another example is the rate of divorces. I have been divorced twice, that certainly is going to throw off the results over the total population. They take the number of divorces and average that to the total. But not taken into account is people who have had multiple divorces.

I certainly have not seen reports on the forums like this one that everybody will be a victim of a crime. Even at best the stats do not show that most people will be victims. If true that it is only a one time incident for each person then that would be less than half.
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