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What would happen to people’s perception of crime if only the crime perpetuated by the rich and powerful was reported on?

xrd 2y ago
It's probably just me, but it feels like reporting on crime is very lopsided and slanted against the powerless.
- slowmovintarget 2y ago
  The powerless are usually the victims, not the criminals. Criminals are by definition exerting their power (usually through physical violence) over people who have even less "power." Not everything is about power dynamics, and crime rarely is. Far more often it is about selfishness.
  - xrd 2y ago
    Again, would love to be proved wrong, but I think physical violence is far and away the majority of crime reported, but the minority (in my own definition) of crimes committed. As an example, I think RealPage and the rent collusion they were doing clearly is illegal. And, has impacted hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.. But, you'll see a lot more reporting on a shooting in every newspaper, even though in most cases that would directly impact only a few people.
    - slowmovintarget 2y ago
      I suspect the majority of crime committed to be civil infractions and petty crime (speeding, parking violations, minor theft, vandalism, then on to things like drug use and DUI). Then you get to violent crime. By sheer quantity, I'd guess there are more violent crimes than fraud. Fraud may impact far more people at once, but there are a lot fewer instances of it than of violence, if we're talking quantity of commission and not quantity of victims.
    - whimsicalism 2y ago
      i’ve seen tons of reporting on realpage relative to pretty much any shooting other than the Luigi Mangione thing. if you mean you see shootings reported on more overall, well yeah - the magnitude of impact of all shootings in the US is greater than realpage
  - DoneWithAllThat 2y ago
    This is just CRT nonsense.
    - slowmovintarget 2y ago
      Where in my comment did I bring up race? The comment I was replying to claimed criminals were criminals because they were powerless. I think most criminals are criminals because they're bad people (the opposite of CRT's Marxist analysis).
  - carlosjobim 2y ago
    Hackers are down voting your comment, but anybody who has been "on the inside" in dealing with criminal cases knows you are speaking the truth. Criminals usually seek out their victims among the people with the least power: Children, youths, addicts, isolated people, mentally weak.
- qup 2y ago
  I only hear about poor people committing crimes usually on the local news. Everything else is billionaire did this, politician did that, corporation did both of those and more.
  - Schiendelman 2y ago
    Sure, you don't read other places' local news. But those places' residents do.
- DoneWithAllThat 2y ago
  It’s just you.
- whimsicalism 2y ago
  for national news i strongly feel like it is the opposite, it’s mostly high profile white collar crime

xrd 2y ago

It's probably just me, but it feels like reporting on crime is very lopsided and slanted against the powerless.

slowmovintarget 2y ago
The powerless are usually the victims, not the criminals. Criminals are by definition exerting their power (usually through physical violence) over people who have even less "power." Not everything is about power dynamics, and crime rarely is. Far more often it is about selfishness.
- xrd 2y ago
  Again, would love to be proved wrong, but I think physical violence is far and away the majority of crime reported, but the minority (in my own definition) of crimes committed. As an example, I think RealPage and the rent collusion they were doing clearly is illegal. And, has impacted hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.. But, you'll see a lot more reporting on a shooting in every newspaper, even though in most cases that would directly impact only a few people.
  - slowmovintarget 2y ago
    I suspect the majority of crime committed to be civil infractions and petty crime (speeding, parking violations, minor theft, vandalism, then on to things like drug use and DUI). Then you get to violent crime. By sheer quantity, I'd guess there are more violent crimes than fraud. Fraud may impact far more people at once, but there are a lot fewer instances of it than of violence, if we're talking quantity of commission and not quantity of victims.
  - whimsicalism 2y ago
    i’ve seen tons of reporting on realpage relative to pretty much any shooting other than the Luigi Mangione thing. if you mean you see shootings reported on more overall, well yeah - the magnitude of impact of all shootings in the US is greater than realpage
- DoneWithAllThat 2y ago
  This is just CRT nonsense.
  - slowmovintarget 2y ago
    Where in my comment did I bring up race? The comment I was replying to claimed criminals were criminals because they were powerless. I think most criminals are criminals because they're bad people (the opposite of CRT's Marxist analysis).
- carlosjobim 2y ago
  Hackers are down voting your comment, but anybody who has been "on the inside" in dealing with criminal cases knows you are speaking the truth. Criminals usually seek out their victims among the people with the least power: Children, youths, addicts, isolated people, mentally weak.
qup 2y ago
I only hear about poor people committing crimes usually on the local news. Everything else is billionaire did this, politician did that, corporation did both of those and more.
- Schiendelman 2y ago
  Sure, you don't read other places' local news. But those places' residents do.
DoneWithAllThat 2y ago
It’s just you.
whimsicalism 2y ago
for national news i strongly feel like it is the opposite, it’s mostly high profile white collar crime