Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
arrow74@lemmy.zip 11 hours agoBad data, or more accurately an attempt to misrepresent the data.
This is basically a total number of all open missing persons cases, not number of cases per year. This represents all open cases within the past 34 years. If we assume an equal rate of people going missing persons year that becomes about 18,000 people a year.
If you actually look at your data you’ll see a pretty sharp decrease in missing persons cases since the 90s.
We know ICE is committing legal actions daily, so what’s the point in trying to misrepresent data and pin this on them in anyway? Even if the argument is so many people go missing its easy for ICE to dissappear people, it fall apart quickly when you look at the actual numbers. They wouldn’t be able to dissappear many people before causing a significant increase in missing persons reports
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
I’m not misinterpreting, maybe you read before I edited the phrasing to make it more clear, I understand this is the number of total open cases each year which is why it’s relatively consistent, cases open and close.
I wasn’t suggesting anything about the number of people they could potentially be taking, just that there are thousands of unsolved cases of missing people each year.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
So why did you present this data then? What was your goal in including it here?
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Just pointing out there are thousands of unsolved missing persons cases, murders get more publicity but if people disappear it doesn’t make as much news and is harder to prosecute even if there is a lot of suspicion of someone who might have abducted and killed the person missing.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
That seems to be going right back around to the accusation ICE is disappearing people. I’m almost certain they have contributed to missings persons, but it would rapidly become apparent if they began disappearing larger amounts of people.