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Wow, that article is great for people who like a lecture with their news. Crime doesn't exist, apparently, and we don't have to do anything about it. News: R

• JohnFen 7y ago
  > Crime doesn't exist, apparently, and we don't have to do anything about it. That's not what the article said at all. The premise of the article is, I think well-founded: Crime in the US (and violent crime in particular) is at record lows and has been there for quite a while. However, people are as fearful of crime as ever, if not more so. Mostly this is because of news reporting (if it bleeds, it leads). Nothing about those facts means that crime doesn't exist or that nothing should be done about the crime that exists. It would be a lot healthier for society, though, if people has a more accurate perception of the crime situation. Something like a Ring-curated news report, unless done very carefully, will only make this problem worse. And it seems unlikely that it will be done carefully, since this is almost certainly intended to be a marketing effort to make people afraid enough that they will buy those doorbells.