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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 160 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

She said that there's been a 500 percent increase against ICE agents who are just "trying to do their jobs and remove public safety threats from... communities."

Exactly what the Nazis who ran extermination camps claimed.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

It's so blatant as if theyre using an instruction manual or something 🤔

[–] natecox@programming.dev 31 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I loathe and despise using percentages like this.

500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

Worse still it's not even clear what is being discussed. It implied "violence" but that is a wide range from just pushing to serious shooting.

% can also be misleading when a scale is arbitrary. A temperature increase measured in Fahrenheit will be a rather different % when converted to Kelvin.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 13 hours ago

someone on bsky did the match and found out that 700% increase is still only like 70 incidents (i forget who it was that posted it)

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] griff@lemmings.world 7 points 13 hours ago

Unjust, following orders