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No such thing was done. You can find instances of awful stuff happening in any city- anywhere in the world. This is exactly what makes statistics useful.

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Statistics can be misleading. The vast majority of incidents aren't reported, and if they are filed they are filed under generic labels.

But anecdotes can be misleading too. The only thing left then is ideology.

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