• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    Fear mongering right wing media machine goes brrrrrr

    Same thing in Germany with crime in general constantly dropping while anti immigration sentiment keeps rising under the excuse of “violent immigrants”

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      4 days ago

      US too, crime has been dropping for decades but we apparently need a Gestapo force to go after criminal gangs

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        4 days ago

        Rightwingers keep trying to make Cali look like a crime ridden cesspool and Texas the peak of law and order, but crime statics between the two are marginal. They tend to shutdown whenever I cite sources on that.

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        4 days ago

        The curious thing about US crime statistics is that we only count crimes against the state. We never count crimes committed by the state.

        I would argue that US Crime has been sharply on the rise, from within the organs of the government itself (and its corporate affiliates).

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          True but I didn’t want to get into the nitty gritty and just comment on the conservative “crime in the streets!!” fantasy