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Jeff Asher
Personal blog · jasher.substack.comdataeconomicspolitics
Jeff Asher writes Jeff-alytics, a personal blog at jasher.substack.com about data, economics and politics. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “How TikTok Caused a Surge in Auto Thefts”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Jeff Asher's posts on US crime statistics and trends. One commenter cites his crime-decline post as support, while another disputes his argument that terrorist attacks can be defended against.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I write about crime, data, and crime data. Come join, it'll be fun! Also, you can subscribe to the Jeff-alytics Podcast at: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2540141.rss.
Most-linked posts?
- How TikTok Caused a Surge in Auto Thefts2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-30
What Hacker News says?
> Terrorist attacks are defendable against. The next time you’re in line at TSA, at a public event (sporting, concerts), at a major transportation hub, any large gathering of people, think about this position you’ve taken. There is a multiple victim shooting event almost every day in the US, and your argument is terrorist attacks can be defended against? We can’t even protect the country from ourselves. These outcom…
Comment linking /p/police-are-taking-longer-to-respond
on “We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't”Submitted Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US as a story · 408 points
HN discussionWhich statistics are you looking at? Crime has been dropping since the 90s, with the exception of short term regressions. https://jasher.substack.com/p/crime-is-likely-down-an-enormo...
Comment linking /p/crime-is-likely-down-an-enormous
on “Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State”Submitted Why Is Target Closing Stores? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crime in 2023: Murder plummeted, violent/property crime likely fell nationally as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How TikTok Caused a Surge in Auto Thefts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TikTok Helped Cause a Surge in Auto Thefts as a story · 1 points
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