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My guess is that it’s a secondary consequence of the initial 2020-2021 wave of media theft-apologia, increasing liability for police, and defunding/prosecution-
by drak0n1c 3y ago
My guess is that it’s a secondary consequence of the initial 2020-2021 wave of media theft-apologia, increasing liability for police, and defunding/prosecution-abstention: now it’s the copycat problem writ large due to social media. People seeing visceral videos and group chats of crowds, gangs, and individuals doing blatant petty and violent crimes in a few places (and oftentimes getting away with it) is probably emboldening would-be criminals to copy techniques they think would work in other places. I think the rise in mass shootings is another result of the social media copycat effect.
- nostrademons 3y agoI think there's a much simpler and more historically universal reason: murders go up in bad economic times. Inflation is high, inequality is increasing, people are losing or have lost their jobs, and who has suffered this seems pretty random, particularly since other groups (like software engineers in 2020/2021, solar installers in 2022, tradespeople in 2023) are doing just great. All this makes people on the losing side very angry. Some angry people kill people. There was a similar spike in murders during the 1970s and early 80s, and during the 1920s and Great Depression.