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What would be more useful for people to do? I've noticed this about society too. We often employ the "easiest" solution to some major problem. Look at homeless
by coding123 4y ago
What would be more useful for people to do?
I've noticed this about society too. We often employ the "easiest" solution to some major problem. Look at homelessness, theft, drugs, mass murders. None of the solutions work. (All of the problems are seemingly ALWAYS on the rise - not fall)
I've been wonder if the actual root of the problem is everyone becoming an island. Communal interaction has been replaced with online interaction (social media).
- stop50 4y agoFrom what i could see from europe from the news: mental illness: call the police mass shooting: thoughts and prayer black person lives: kill him
- vorpalhex 4y agoViolent crime until recently has been generally steadily dropping since the 70s.
- wyager 4y agoAttributable to rapidly increasing police expenditures. The "baseline" level of crime in the counterfactual scenario where police expenditure had stayed constant is almost certainly increasing.
- tomtheelder 4y agoI don't think anything about what you just said can be assumed to be true. I am not convinced that increased police expenditure has a significant impact on violent crime, and even if it does I don't think it's reasonable at all to assume that violent crime rates would have increased without them. I suspect that decreasing violent crime rates are caused by a constellation of forces (increased education, aging population, decreased alcohol consumption, more out there stuff like decreased childhood lead exposure, etc.).
- coding123 4y agoBy far more than any other metric crime is driven by things not being affordable (including and especially housing)
- vorpalhex 4y agoWell that's just not true. Crime has more correlation with density than pricing but that is correlation, not causation. Many cheap broke areas are also high crime areas.
- confidantlake 4y agoThey don't seem always on the rise to me.