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Jan 17, 2023Liked by The Spinoff

My New Year's resolution: read The Bulletin first thing every morning (rather than some of the other more "usual" news sites) & use it as a jumping-off point for my news consumption for the day. Really appreciated the link to the Politico article about Davos - the theme of "cooperation in a fragmented world" is very apposite for some work I'm doing today. Thanks Anna.

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I find it astonishing that you dismiss a 31% rise in violent crime like it's nothing.

The Stuff article raises some minor quibbles and caveats with the data, none of which infer that the 31% is too high an estimate - it could go either way. For example, the estimate excludes sexual assault and aggravated robbery, and as the Stuff article notes, expanding the definition always resulted in an increase, and up to 40%. Even the lower bound 18% is still a concerning rise.

None of the caveats raised come anywhere near to discrediting the data and estimate. And yet you write like its been debunked as myth?

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