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Trying to prove correlations between race and crime is literally the historical basis of criminology as a discipline. They failed, it's stupid, and now people know better.

You can commission as many studies as you like on astrology, and they'll all be meaningless.



If you read the thread, you will find that this is not about the correlation between race and crime, but about the correlation between illegal immigration and crime.




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