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  • chingadera@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Incorrect, wage theft is the most common committed crime if we’re talking about ‘counts of crime’ instead of just reporting.

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      4 months ago

      Uh…what… incorrect…?

      This entire thread was spawned from someone posting a statistic relating to violent crime rates amongst different population groups.

      Financial crimes, wage theft, jaywalking, or any other criminal act you can think of, that isn’t categorized as a “violent crime”, is irrelevant when the discussion is about one specific flawed violent crime statistic…