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Nobody wants to kill anymore. I guess it’s not woke enough.
When I was a kid I walked uphill, barefoot in the snow to kill!
It would only rain bullets!
Perceptions of crime waves are mostly driven by propaganda, not measurement.
In some cases, a “crime wave” doesn’t represent an undifferentiated mass phenomenon, but rather the behavior of a single organized crime group: it’s not that “everybody is being more criminal today” but rather “there is a specific gang that has figured out how to get away with a lot of crime”. This seems to be the case for a lot of property crime in my part of the country.
And it’s usually stopped pretty quickly too. Remember all that catalytic converter theft in the Bay Area? They caught the middlemen buying most of them and suddenly no one talks about it anymore.
all that catalytic converter theft in the Bay Area
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of! I got hit by it twice in the East Bay. Pretty glad they caught the masterminds.
Did they also catch the people breaking into everyone’s cars?
Some of them, but most crimes are crimes of opportunity. There’s no limit to the number of “criminals” because they’re just people who want fast money and see an opportunity. The middlemen are limited because that job is more complicated.
The only real way to stop crime is to make jobs better. If you could just walk into any store or office and get a job, very few people would rob them.
Meanwhile, killings perpetrated by police officers continue to rise by significant percentages annually.
But maybe, the rising in police killings kills more murders before they could start their murdering, so the rising in police killings could save more people than the police is killing. /s
Something that is worth mentioning is that the general mental health of the nation has gotten much worse too. Suicides from 2000 and 2020 has increased from between 30% and 60% (varies from source) indicating a deteriorating mental health of most citizens. This often in turn causes people to think and act irrationally or dangerously. This also correlates to the struggles of the pandemic, many people’s mental health suffered during the lockdowns and during this period murders, police killings and suicides spiked during it.
Does this mean the police are perfect? Not necessarily, but when it comes to most trends and phenomena it’s generally unhelpful to pin the blame on individuals instead of a more nuanced and informed explanation.
I am being murdered at about the same rate I have always been murdered at. This sounds like some fishy data.
Oh my god, fucking assholes ending sentences with prepositions!
I am being murdered at about the same rate as I’ve been.
FTFY fuckface
Jesus it makes me so angry I could fucking kill!
Modern style guides no longer forbid ending a sentence with prepositions, dad.
I had hoped my facetious tone would be apparent given the topic of this thread. Given the downvotes, that was probably not the case and in the case you felt I was attacking you, sorry. You’re doing language just fine
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It doesn’t help that the news focuses on murders and gun crime over anything else, and provides a megaphone for copaganda with zero analysis. If it bleeds, it leads, even if it’s a lie.
Well not the dead.
still higher than pre-pandemic
Microplastics: Hold my micro brew
