• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    She said that there’s been a 500 percent increase against ICE agents who are just “trying to do their jobs and remove public safety threats from… communities.”

    Exactly what the Nazis who ran extermination camps claimed.

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      1 day ago

      I loathe and despise using percentages like this.

      500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.

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        22 hours ago

        Worse still it’s not even clear what is being discussed. It implied “violence” but that is a wide range from just pushing to serious shooting.

        % can also be misleading when a scale is arbitrary. A temperature increase measured in Fahrenheit will be a rather different % when converted to Kelvin.

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          4 hours ago

          We all know that cops will try to charge you with assaulting them if you so much as shrug while being arrested. And they’ll contrive situations just so they can do that. I’d say that makes their statistics meaningless without specific details and proof.

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          6 hours ago

          ICE also keep getting caught on camera lying about being threatened before they start beating some innocent

    • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      22 hours ago

      someone on bsky did the match and found out that 700% increase is still only like 70 incidents (i forget who it was that posted it)