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>Violent crime is out of control. Hilarious because it is in fact down: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-th
by entropicdrifter 2y ago
>Violent crime is out of control.
Hilarious because it is in fact down: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...
You've been propagandized, my friend
- rangestransform 2y agoYour own source says that violent victimizations is up YoY, and crime reporting is down YoY
- user9999999999 2y agothat is a dishonest interpretation of the data, the overall _trend_ is "U.S. violent and property crime rates have plunged since 1990s, regardless of data source"
- rangestransform 2y agoWhy should crime ever go up, if other countries show that the floor of crime rate is even lower through policy and enforcement changes? It is always valid to blame the government for high crime relative to other nations with lower crime.