Biggest Bogon Emitter: The American Thinker

[Dallas Wildman]

I found this image on I-Am-Bored:



Here is the link to the ACTUAL numbers from the Colorado BOI
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cbi/crime-colorado1

Do these numbers line up to you?

[evensgrey]

I found this image on I-Am-Bored:



Here is the link to the ACTUAL numbers from the Colorado BOI
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cbi/crime-colorado1

Do these numbers line up to you?

Fascinatingly fictional.  Not only are the real numbers rather flat (except for a notable fall from 2006 to 2008, which also would tend to put the lie to the notion that crime is driven by bad economic conditions), but none of those years actual crime rates would even fit on this graph.  The lowest year is nearly three times the highest number shown.

[Dallas Wildman]

Actually I just realized that the bars are the ARREST rates, not actual crime rates.  In any case it's VERY misleading.

[MrBogosity]

Maybe the arrest rates are up because police can focus on ACTUAL crimes?

[evensgrey]

That's still stupidly deceptive, since it claims to be the crime rates in those years.  In any case, the actual rates are just bouncing around a little, pretty randomly.  Three years isn't really a trend, especially when the data has rather a lot of noise.

One of the main crimes that is supposedly increased by the drug trade is robbery, which went DOWN from 2013 to 2014.  (For some reason, no 2015 data yet.)

[Dallas Wildman]

That's still stupidly deceptive, since it claims to be the crime rates in those years.  In any case, the actual rates are just bouncing around a little, pretty randomly.  Three years isn't really a trend, especially when the data has rather a lot of noise.

One of the main crimes that is supposedly increased by the drug trade is robbery, which went DOWN from 2013 to 2014.  (For some reason, no 2015 data yet.)

As far as 2015 data being unavailable it's not unusual, a lot of times for certain subject matters the latest annual data is 2-4 years ago.  To put it more succinctly the CO BOI is most likely spending this year to analyze and compile the 2015 data.