Self-study
Police commissioner: Support Last year our city experienced a 15 percent decrease in the rate of violent crime. ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████ ████ █ ███ █████████ ██████████ ███ ███ ████████ █████ ████████ ████ ███ ███████ █████████ █████ ████ ██ ███████ █████ ██ █████ █████ ██████ ███████ ████ ████ ████ █████ ███ ████ ██ ███ █████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ███ ██ ███ ███ █████████ ██████████ ████
Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The author concludes that last year’s 15 percent decrease in the rate of violent crime was caused by the new mandatory sentencing law. This is because the law was passed at the beginning of last year, and no other major policy changes were made last year.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that there was no alternate cause of the decreased crime rate. (Even though there were no other major policy changes last year, the crime rate could have decreased for some other reason that wasn’t a policy change, or from a policy change enacted before last year.)
Analysis by Kevin_Lin
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a
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b
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c
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d
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e
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