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It would be good to include a chart so people can see the trends over time. If I had to pick one measure, my suggestion would be murders per 100,000 residents. Murders are just one form of crime, but they have the advantage that they should be pretty accurately reported and relatively insensitive to changes in reporting standards, etc. The point of charting per 100,000 is to correct for changes in population and also to make a chart for New York City directly comparable to a chart for somewhere else (say New York State or Chicago or the US as a whole or whatever).
Crust ( talk) 19:09, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
The section which lists high-profile crimes has no clear inclusion criteria, and some of the crimes (especially recent ones) might have been sensational, but received only short-lived attention. I propose that only entries that have standalone articles, or at least substantial sections in other articles, about the crime, the victim, or the perpetrator should be included. pburka ( talk) 19:21, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
Seems to me like far too many anecdotes of marginal historical importance, and nowhere near enough statistics to get an in-depth understanding. I'm not sure how that decision is made, or who makes it.
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It would be good to include a chart so people can see the trends over time. If I had to pick one measure, my suggestion would be murders per 100,000 residents. Murders are just one form of crime, but they have the advantage that they should be pretty accurately reported and relatively insensitive to changes in reporting standards, etc. The point of charting per 100,000 is to correct for changes in population and also to make a chart for New York City directly comparable to a chart for somewhere else (say New York State or Chicago or the US as a whole or whatever).
Crust ( talk) 19:09, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
The section which lists high-profile crimes has no clear inclusion criteria, and some of the crimes (especially recent ones) might have been sensational, but received only short-lived attention. I propose that only entries that have standalone articles, or at least substantial sections in other articles, about the crime, the victim, or the perpetrator should be included. pburka ( talk) 19:21, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
Seems to me like far too many anecdotes of marginal historical importance, and nowhere near enough statistics to get an in-depth understanding. I'm not sure how that decision is made, or who makes it.