Can you spot the criminal danger: the footnotes
Tom The Dancing Bug Blog 2019-08-20
This week's comic has some statistics in it, and I thought I'd share the sources that I wrote about to the INNER HIVE on Monday.
Because the only the best comics have footnotes!
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"49 out of 50 extremist murders in 2018 were committed by domestic right-wing terrorists." https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2018
OxyContin "promoted its use to doctors as safe and non-addictive, contributing to an addiction epidemic that now kills about 130 Americans every day." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622774/
Undocumented immigrants are "convicted of crimes at a rate of about 0.75%" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/19/two-charts-demolish-the-notion-that-immigrants-here-illegally-commit-more-crime/
And Wikipedia lists 26 "key" members of Trump's 2016 campaign, five of which have now been indicted or pled guilty. (George Papadopoulos was a Trump advisor who also pled guilty, but he isn't listed as a key member.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2016_presidential_campaign https://www.businessinsider.com/who-has-been-charged-in-russia-investigation-mueller-trump-2017-12#rick-gates-one-of-manaforts-business-partners-6
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