Not when the non-existent killings can be used to justify ramping up surveillance and control while justifying state violence.
🌈Freedom
To be fair, a good portion of the killings ARE the state violence. So yeah, it’s good we notice.
In a sane world, cops would be boasting about what a great job they are doing. In this timeline, they know that scared people will vote for increases in police budgets.
But, they defunded* all the police, so if they admit the murder rate is down, they’re afraid they’ll get defunded* even further. Must continue to scream about high crime rates to get that sweet, sweet money.
*I know they didn’t defund the police.
No.
only if we’re told about it. daily.
While getting a smog check, the proprietor told me that there was more crime than ever in our area. I was baffled. He looked to be my age. Had he forgotten the '90s? People will believe things they’re told over what they see with their own eyes. Smh… and I’m finding a new smog check place next time
Really astonishing what kind of stories people come up with here…
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate
Look at “annual % change” for 2020/2021 and you should quickly realize that this “historic drop” is actually just a slow recline from the historic rise we just had.
And the framing of this article is just as astonishing. The whole “does anyone even notice” spiel! Amazing.
And yet the top comment here is clearly someone who didn’t even click the link lol
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Honestly wtf even is this article. The data is basically saying that it is still increasing, just slower than last year.
No, the article is talking about 2022 and 2023 statistics, where there is in fact a drop. The link posted in this comment only shows data up to 2021.
Actually I don’t know why they didn’t just post the actual source used by the article itself which shows more recent data. Either way, the basic point stands that this “huge drop” is basically a reversion after a large increase in 2020-2021. Things are going “back to normal,” so it’s kind of stupid to pretend this is something we should all be looking at.
Ahh got it. Still a bad article lol
Reminds me of how the news media frames the deficit, like we’re supposed to celebrate when the government puts 1.2 trillion on debt in a year rather than 1.4.
Propaganda. It’s just propaganda.
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Thanks Obama!
Only if we can claim a scary reason for it. Government mind control? Aliens?
Nope. Media will never allow that. Gotta keep us at each other’s throats so we don’t get our shit together and start holding politicians accountable.
A county ball? What is this word you speak?
Some stats show otherwise. There was a time that mass shootings were very rare. https://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shootings-days-2023-database-shows/story?id=96609874
There was a time mass shootings were done almost entirely by white kids. The definition includes a lot of gang shootings now.
Do you understand how racist that sort of comment comes across as? You probably don’t mean it like that, but you know there are white gangs too.
I’m not going to put an essay about historical racism or housing policies in a comment about gun violence. Might as well have called me out for saying mass shooters (in the colloquial sense) are white. I can’t change reality - they statistically are white.
Yeah, we all know cops exist, dude.
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More and more would-be murders are being downgraded to assaults because doctors keep getting better at saving victims’ lives.
America isn’t getting less violent; our emergency medical care is simply getting better at dealing with the violence.Edit: I stand corrected.
The rates of aggravated assault are declining as well:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/
Nice. Now I have a new reason to be optimistic about the future.
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Nope, positive news doesn’t sell views
Yeah man bullets are expensive
The free market works to lower the murder rate. Capitalism ftw.
Hurry, throw a party before the more deadly AR-16 comes out next year
That would be the AR looking gun made out of a converted Mac-10 lower so it’s legally full auto.
The AR-16 was released in the late 50’s. (As a cheaper, easier to produce weapon than the AR-10)
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