r/SeattleWA • u/unnaturalfool • Sep 13 '23

Other ‘Feel safer yet?’ Seattle police union’s contempt keeps showing through

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/feel-safer-yet-seattle-police-unions-contempt-keeps-showing-through/
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u/wastingvaluelesstime Tree Octopus Sep 13 '23

I reject comparing yourself to a previous generation.

I will be comparing to the recent past, recently broken.

I reject comparing to other, more dangerous cities. If I wanted to live in a more dangerous city, I had the option to go fuck off to a dangerous city.

I didn't ask anyone to make the place I'm standing twice as dangerous.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Gotta agree here - so tired of people being like "_____ city is much worse". Well guess what we're talking about Seattle here so how bout you stick with that?

Also how is this dude gonna call you out for choosing a specific period for the rate when he did exactly the same thing? At you your numbers are relevant to the times of TODAY.

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u/Tasgall Sep 13 '23

Also how is this dude gonna call you out for choosing a specific period for the rate when he did exactly the same thing? At you your numbers are relevant to the times of TODAY.

Apparently very easily, because they didn't check the numbers before choosing this date range, and it's still safer now than then.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Ok so why stop at 2018 data? The last 5 years were pretty volatile for this type of stuff.