• Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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    I can get this but I just keep reading of such and such was driving around and caught with lets say an ounce of weed and they are a felon and also get charged for felon in posession. Also I am mainly talking about small towns. If I knew how to link i could probably come up with at least 20 30 articles.

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      Could it be selection bias? You don’t hear about the people with an illegal gun because that would likely just get quietly confiscated. You don’t hear about someone possessing drugs because that’s pretty normal. But if there are several crimes together it might make the news.

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      If I knew how to link

      All you have to do is paste the link in your comment, no special formatting required. If you want to make text that links to a story or w/e you do

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