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https://ourworldindata.org/us-crime-rates its it really getting better if you adjust for the ageing population?

Why would you control for that (other than to find some way to disagree with a page full of charts going down)?

Is that a joke? Are you a human person? How is grandpa gonna beat and rob u?

… you’re describing a mechanism by which crime rates go down, and then acting like that can’t possibly mean crime rates are actually going down.

What’s the difference between a crime rate going down because people are getting older versus a crime rate going down?

violent crime peaks at 18-19 years old. bad hacker news takes are timeless. https://www.ccsd.ca/resources/CrimePrevention/c_age.htm

Your argument was about the inability of an old guy to physically threaten someone with robbery. Glad that Claude found you a blogpost