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Crime is going up in cities all over the country, including those in red states that never had a sniff of "Defund the Police". I'm unconvinced that it's a dire
by deeg 5y ago
Crime is going up in cities all over the country, including those in red states that never had a sniff of "Defund the Police". I'm unconvinced that it's a direct contributor.
- omegaworks 5y ago>Crime is going up in cities all over the country False. Nearly every crime stat is trending downward.[1] 1. https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/crime-rate-statistics https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/crime...
- pixelgeek 5y agoAnd your link to supporting data is where?
- omegaworks 5y agohttps://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/crime-rate-statistics https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/crime...
- treeman79 5y agoGoing after a bad guy is now very risky. If someone puts a gun to your head and says they will kill you and you protect yourself. Well you will be made an example.
- vb6sp6 5y agoNo it isn't. Mistaking a taser for a gun and killing someone is very risky. Kneeling on someone's neck while they are handcuffed is risky. Normal policing is not.
- m-p-3 5y agoMy guess is that the root cause is a mix of increasing inequalities (perceived or real), low wages and polarizations in the media.
- zzzbra 5y agoSome added data to back up what you're saying: https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homicide-records/story?id=81466453 https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homi... Increases in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Kentucky would indicate to me a lack of correlation for various partisan policies driving this.
- robobob5000 5y agoTucson and Phoenix are very much the blue part of Arizona
- smsm42 5y agoWhen I saw Texas, I thought to myself - I bet they mean Austin. And sure enough... Austin is the Portland of Texas. Bringing it up as if it is politically aligned to the right with the rest of Texas makes no sense. On the contrary, if anything it'd support the hypothesis that leftist policies drive crime up.
- cmh89 5y agoPortland is significantly safer than most big cities in red states.
- smsm42 5y agoWhen I'm reading/looking at the news from Portland, "safer" is not the first word that comes to my mind. But in this particular case, what I meant is that Austin government has always been very liberal/left leaning, and considering it a typical representative of Texas would be wrong.
- cmh89 5y agoPerhaps you shouldn't form your opinion of the world based on 'news'. I live in Portland and don't feel in danger, and our homicide rate is one of the lowest for a big city in the country.
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- meragrin_ 5y agoAny data on some "red" cities experiencing rising crime? The big cities in "red" states tend to be "blue".
- whimsicalism 5y agoWhat a beautiful tautology, you're basically right no matter what.
- givemeethekeys 5y agoIs per-capita crime going up as well?
- CodeGlitch 5y agoPerhaps because the police are changing their tactics (for the worse) to reduce any possible repeat of George Floyd's killing? Here in the UK, "stop and search" was massively reduced because it was seen as racist. The result has been a marked increase in knife and drug related crimes. Of course it is the poor and minorities who suffer from these progressive policies.