The Centers for Disease Control cause-of-death system yields stable homicide victimization rates across states. Federal Bureau of Investigation offender data suffer from uneven reporting and incentives, making comparisons noisier. Using CDC victimization rates reduces politicization and data gaps in cross-state crime debates.
— It urges media and policymakers to anchor crime comparisons in more reliable datasets, improving the quality of public argument.
2025.10.07
50% relevant
Both pieces argue that choosing the right classification and dataset improves public debates: here, CDC details ICD-10 coding and a 2018 method update to more accurately quantify 'prescription' opioid deaths versus illicit fentanyl, analogous to preferring CDC victimization data over noisier FBI counts in crime debates.
Aporia
2025.09.13
60% relevant
The author grounds his claims in CDC age‑adjusted homicide victimization rates (e.g., 2007 cross‑group rates) rather than FBI offender data, aligning with the argument to anchor crime comparisons in CDC victim data for stability and comparability.
Matthew Yglesias
2025.08.20
40% relevant
The article criticizes crime misinformation and compares 2023–2025 trends in D.C., implicitly aligning with the push to use more reliable metrics when making cross‑time and cross‑city crime claims.
Rod Dreher
2025.08.18
70% relevant
The post emphasizes reliance on CDC cause-of-death data for cross-state comparisons, echoing the case that CDC victimization data are more stable and less politicized than FBI offender data.
Steve Sailer
2025.08.18
100% relevant
The article explicitly relies on CDC homicide mortality (2018–2024) and critiques FBI statistics as less dependable for cross-state analysis.
Steve Sailer
2025.08.13
60% relevant
By emphasizing homicide victimization counts over a multi-year window, the article aligns with the argument to prioritize stable victim data over noisier offender reporting when making cross-group comparisons.
Steve Sailer
2025.08.13
85% relevant
Sailer explicitly relies on the CDC WONDER mortality database for cross‑group homicide comparisons, arguing it is less politicized and more reliable than police/offender data.
Steve Sailer
2025.05.21
63% relevant
Like the call to use the most reliable homicide datasets, the article argues policing debates hinge on dataset quality; it contrasts the new Deadly Force database’s limited 'armed' information with the Washington Post’s Fatal Force figures to question bias claims.
2022.05.18
90% relevant
The brief explicitly relies on CDC death‑certificate data for 'essentially full coverage' and county‑level demographics, rejecting FBI’s incomplete reporting to analyze the 2020 homicide surge.