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engtech on Dec 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Local police post mugshots on Pinterest, leading t...

The craziest thing about looking through the warrants is the amount of charges that are either about property or drugs.

The media focuses so much on violence and sexual assault that I thought there would be more violent offenders in the mugshots.

PotatoEngineer on Dec 10, 2012 [–]

If the media is focusing on it, it's rare. If the media stops running stories about violence (or runs fewer), then violence may be getting out of hand. If a single story about violence runs for a week, then it's rare, so violence is going down.

Media is weird.

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