If people aren’t panicked, they wouldn’t elect panic-pandering politicians, so there must always be a panic — crime, drugs, commies, libruls, etc.
I’ve been saying this for years and nobody on any side cares, they just want to be angry about something. Crime fell steadily from '93-'16 (except MA, crime started falling a little later than '93 there), and only had a slight uptick from 2016-now, still not at pre-'93 levels though. Looks like as per the article that pop is ending. I think the biggest problem there is the 24hr news cycle even existing, and the fact that they try to keep you enraged and watching by pushing only shit that’ll make you angry enough to come back and watch more.
Well I for one am fucking done with it, give me a 24hr happy/uplifting news channel and I’ll consider watching.
58% is still higher than it should be, but once again the “facts over feelings” crowd proves that reality has a left bias.
The people who actually believe crime is rising clearly need to take the plastic bag off of their heads and remove themselves from the hole they’ve been living under for more than a century.
It’s unleaded gasoline, I think. They took the lead out of gasoline, and crime rates went way down in subsequent generations.
Also, just FYI cuz it’s weird, yours is one of three comments from lemm.ee accounts that didn’t reach me until today 1/1/24, six days after they’d been posted.
The claim that crime is down is based entirely on voluntarily statistical reports submitted to the FBI by police departments? Seems kinds of thin.
Well, I read.the article, then asked two relatives who are both cops.
Obviously their experience is localized, but the response I got from them that overall violent crimes are not down, they are in fact up. I won’t go into any details but they both indicated things like house break-ins are down most likely due to work from home but murders, which I would consider violent crime are not trending down.
Take that for what it’s worth.
Not to be rude but that is worth little to nothing in the frame of this discussion. Crime will go up in some areas and down in others. FBI data compiles all of that data, including the precinct of your relatives. The data shows overall numbers are down.
Now if the discussion was about what areas have seen upticks and why, then you information would be slightly more relevant. Even then, we would still need to clarify whether your relatives gave you their statement based on a report provided by their precinct or based on their personal experience.
I would agree that murder is a violent crime.
For republicans, ‘fear’ is their identity, and republicans love playing identity politics with it. They make up threats where there is none. My father for example doesn’t want lax immigration in case “someone comes over here with a bomb”. oh ok pops.
Ask him about Oklahoma City.
Right? It’s been a slow process but he’s a smart guy and he’s starting to show signs of critical thought. He just seemed to lean in real hard on “well, these GOP folks do sound reasonable.” And he’s right, if you don’t really pay attention to the word and content (or just accept it, uncritically) but listen to the cadence and indignation, they do sound reasonable. By comparison, leftists sound angry and a smart-sounding republican talking down to an angry leftist sounds reasonable. And, after all, most of the news sounds like the republican.
