PoliCHARTZ - Thread of U.S. Politics & the Presidential Election

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Kasz216 said:
(1)A ratio of LEGAL citizens yes.

Aside from which the raw number would be down... and this is important since immigrants aren't limited to their own populations.  Illegal aliens don't just stay to themselves

I mean what's not easy to get about that?

(2) Every Illegal alien that's here creates an increase in the raw number in crime... and in term increases the risk for legal citizens.  It's a perfectly fine point.

The actual rate is irrelvent... since having a lower crime rate doesn't = less crimes... and if there were less legal illegal immigrants there wouldn't be more legal ones.

(3) I mean think to yourself.  Which would you rather have in your city.  The same crime rate?  Or a higher crime rate... yet less crimes committed?

(1) Good point.  But even if the TRUE crime ratio is different from the apparent one, the other point still stands. 

(2) Wrong.  See (3) 

(3) If there's a higher crime rate, then there is a higher probability that any individual person, e.g. me, will be a victim of that crime.  So by that reasoning I would want the lower crime rate.  Of course, my individual probability of being victimized is not a simple function of the crime rate, but my answer makes at least as much sense as your question IMO.