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So did I, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1970s, when the murder rate was 1,000/year. Things have gotten less dangerous but people have gotten more f
by leephillips 4y ago
So did I, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1970s, when the murder rate was 1,000/year. Things have gotten less dangerous but people have gotten more fearful.
- pojzon 4y agoPpl have gotten more fearful because things have gotten MORE dengerous, not less..: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/11/3/hld-surge-in-us-homicides-continues-in-2021-why https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/11/3/hld-surge-in-us...
- ZoomerCretin 4y agohttps://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murd... The homicide rate in 2021 was almost half of the homicide rate in the early 1990s.
- leephillips 4y agoEven if we stipulate that this article from Quatar state media is accurate, it does not imply that conditions are more dangerous now than in the time frame I was describing. You do understand that, I hope.