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Originally Posted by tinman01
For me to accept your assumption you would have to show how illegals are out there preventing crimes and if they were all gone then the crimes they were preventing would be allowed to happen uncontested.
The absence of criminals does not cause crime to go up.
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Only once...I have tried this before and most simply don't understand.
Crime is evaluated by rates. There are x murders per hundred thousand. That says for each hundred thousand people in a population x will be murdered in a given year.
You form a rate by dividing the number of incidents by the number of people in the population.
Now of course if you have more people you will have more incidents. So the number of crimes will increase with the addition of people.
If however you have a group of people who you remove and they impact the number of people more than the number of incidents than crime rates will go up even though the number of crimes go down.
If for instance I have a crime rate of 12 per milllion for baby rape and I remove half the population who had a baby rape rate of 6 per million. The number of rapes per million would go down by 3 per million but the rate for the remaining polulation would go to 18 per million. So we lowered the number of crimes by 3 but increased the rate by 50%.
There is a good bit more to how these numbers work and the conditions that need to be satisfied to cause a reduction in rate but that should give you the idea.