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Are people held under suspicion of murder being released without bail? If not, how could that possibly be related to issues of minor crimes leading to de facto release?

We need to look specifically at the sorts of crimes sensitive to these measures right?

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OP originally disputed the claim of a "crime wave", arguing with mistaken math that homicides--the most statistically reliable measure of crime--have only increased by 2% since 2014. (In fact it's more like 50%.)

I corrected OP's math and OP edited the comment to remove the claim about the increase in homicides being negligible, so now the thread doesn't really make any sense. But that's why I was talking about homicides.

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