Comments on: Herd Immunity Applies to Guns as Well as Vaccinations https://www.isegoria.net/2015/02/herd-immunity-applies-to-guns-as-well-as-vaccinations/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 14 May 2026 06:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bill https://www.isegoria.net/2015/02/herd-immunity-applies-to-guns-as-well-as-vaccinations/comment-page-1/#comment-2140669 Bill Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:47:52 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37347#comment-2140669 On the other hand, the US prison population expanded from about 1 million persons in 1990 to almost 2.5 million persons in 2015. I’ll bet that has something to do with lower crime rates overall.

Also, one way that police departments improve their statistics is to “massage” them:

We identified 10 people, including Groves, who were beaten, burned, suffocated, or shot to death in 2013 and whose cases were reclassified as death investigations, downgraded to more minor crimes, or even closed as noncriminal incidents — all for illogical or, at best, unclear reasons.

This troubling practice goes far beyond murders, documents and interviews reveal. Chicago [magazine] found dozens of other crimes, including serious felonies such as robberies, burglaries, and assaults, that were misclassified, downgraded to wrist-slap offenses, or made to vanish altogether.

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