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2015-07-16 India-Pakistan

Surge in number of people killed in 'encounters', drop in overall killings

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Posted by Fred 2015-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
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#1 Could it be that those killed in police encounters were murderous nasties, and so the murders they would have committed were subsequently not?

Posted by trailing wife 2015-07-16 07:01|| 2015-07-16 07:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't confuse them. They still haven't figured out why we have so many people incarcerated and yet crime per capita has fallen.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-07-16 09:08|| 2015-07-16 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 "Abu Fox Butterfield to the courtesy phone"

Posted by Frank G 2015-07-16 10:45|| 2015-07-16 10:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Frank - you made me look it up. From Wikipedia -

Butterfield was noted for writing a sequence of articles discussing the "paradox" of crime rates falling while the prison population grew due to tougher sentencing guidelines, without ever considering the possibility that the tougher sentencing guidelines may have reduced crime by causing criminals to be imprisoned. "The Butterfield Effect" is often brought up by James Taranto in his column for the online editorial page of the Wall Street Journal called Best of the Web Today, typically bringing up a headline which displays the effect with the joke "Fox Butterfield, Is That You?".

Posted by Bobby 2015-07-16 16:29|| 2015-07-16 16:29|| Front Page Top

#5 :)

Posted by Shipman 2015-07-16 18:04|| 2015-07-16 18:04|| Front Page Top

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