Charlie Savage’s avatarCharlie Savage’s Twitter Archive—№ 9,957

    1. The tweets by @CrimeADay are amusing, but its notion that there are 304K federal crimes is garbage. Look more closely and 99% turn out to be the breezy claim that there are 300k regulations that are criminally enforceable, which is a myth -- real # is more like 3k-4k. @CrimeADay/1019386610125885446
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      Should've screenshot FN 18. Here is the apparent source of the dubious claim that there are 300,000 regulations whose violation is a federal criminal offense, which people have credulously echoed in print and speeches so much that it has taken on the appearance of a real fact.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API