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The police aren't reporting the rates of the crime they're committing and apparently wage theft is way up.
Now ask these groups whether they think poor people are worse off today versus 20 years ago.
Where?
The people who actually believe crime is rising clearly need to take the plastic bag off of their heads and remove themselves from the hole they've been living under for more than a century.
It's unleaded gasoline, I think. They took the lead out of gasoline, and crime rates went way down in subsequent generations.
Also, just FYI cuz it's weird, yours is one of three comments from lemm.ee accounts that didn't reach me until today 1/1/24, six days after they'd been posted.
The claim that crime is down is based entirely on voluntarily statistical reports submitted to the FBI by police departments? Seems kinds of thin.
I'm curious, do you have any ideas about where else we could get crime statistics?
Well property crimes are up considerably. More poverty is correlated obviously. These are the types of crime most people are exposed to so it is unsurprising that perception of crime frequency is increasing. On a side note perhaps violent crime is decreasing as the population ages. Violent crime is negatively correlated with an aging population.
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Good to know the noticable increase of gunfire in Buckhead Atlanta is just my imagination.
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