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| 2025-05-17 |
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Ten percent of the miscreants do 90% of the crimes? I recall discussions here about old cop wisdom to that effect, though the actual numbers might be skightly different. At any rate, read it as a very few cause most of the problems.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 A Statistical Approach to Crime Linkage |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-05-17 23:32 |
| #4 ^ That's why vigilante groups are so effective |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-05-17 20:32 |
| #3 Sure. Ted Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of everything is crap. It’s just that the discussion I recall was something on the order of taking a few dozen very bad men and a few women off the street pretty much solved the crime problem for a neighbourhood/community/region — and the police knew exactly who those people are. It’s just that in general they weren’t allowed to take those people out of circulation proactively. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-05-17 19:40 |
| #2 Ten percent of the miscreants do 90% of the crimes? Quite possibly. Crime is one of those things that shows a Pareto distribution, commonly called the 80/20 Rule. It is more a rule of thumb than a physical law, but it does show up in a lot of situations. Not just crime, but books written, hit songs, patents issued, scientific discoveries, basically anything that involves iterated creation or production. All animals may be equal but their outputs differ. The more familiar normal distribution (aka the Bell Curve) shows up with things like height, weight, and IQ in humans, things that are the result of a bunch of random inputs. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-05-17 17:59 |
| #1 Every day count of Americans murdered, raped, assaulted, and robbed needs to be kept running to show that it is in fact a war unleashed by the ruling class upon the public. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-05-17 15:04 |