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24,849 homicide victims in the USA 2022 and 27,494 in South Africa in the year to Feb 2023, a per capita rate that's 7 times higher but also absolutely higher.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/07/1223358578/as-police-lose-the-war-on-crime-in-south-africa-private-security-companies-step-

S!ayer 8mo ago

so the FBI director was lying to congress?

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H 8mo ago

2 * 24 * 365 = 17520

S!ayer 8mo ago

Kash Patel used his statistics to justify the border closure and to push their congress to do so, so those stats are "from the horses mouth" per say.

H 8mo ago

There have been 90 emergencies declared in the US since 1917. 8 have been declared by the Trump admin since January.

S!ayer 8mo ago

stats are not making sense when you think about it

H 8mo ago

The stats are real, they're just not that shocking in a country of 350m people, but they *sound* bad.