Oh look, another politician with little understanding of statistics that can't differentiate between correlation and causation. Not the first time I've seen this.https://twitter.com/tehecko/status/972256854675001344 …
#PresidentTrump perpetuates false claims that immigrants are infecting our communities with crime. We cannot allow selectively chosen incidents to cloud the facts. Since 1980, #immigration has increased by 118%, while violent crime has dropped by 36%.https://nyti.ms/2pRhK4z
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Areas in the United States with more immigrants have lower crime rates: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15377938.2016.1261057?af=R …. This is because immigrants are far less likely to commit crimes than US citizens are: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2012.659200 ….
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The percentage of violent crime can go down since the demoninator in that fraction is total population which is going up. How about the prision population? What percentage of inmates are illegals since 1980? Graph that and lets see where it lands.
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The drop in violent crime coincides with the elimination of lead I gasoline. The detremental brain effects of lead are well understood, including violent behavior.
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Congrats on writing a great house tweet! http://greathousetweets.measuredvoice.com/RepMikeQuigley/status/979732514217644032 … (Ranked 19th for Mar 30.)
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What about school shooting ? Has it lowered ?
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