When you fire the statistics collection people for true-but-bad news, you guarantee that you fly blind going forward, as people wont tell you bad news anymore.

We simply can’t trust government stats after this.

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      But that’s where they live, and they’re still part of the same damn environment that everyone else lives in. They’re not inherently special. They’re just as vulnerable to violent crime on the streets as the rest of us, or of climate disasters, or of dying of cancer. It’s incredibly shortsighted