Homicide is down 30% year-to-date in DC this year. Violent crime down 35%.
Is this news to you? Probably, because most media focuses on stoking fear about crime through anecdote, rather than actual data
Is this news to you? Probably, because most media focuses on stoking fear about crime through anecdote, rather than actual data
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The 80s are referred to as "the decade of murder," but the news is telling people that"now" is the highest murder rate.
White-collar crimes are crime and they are not down at all. They are up. Big time.
... Unfortunately!
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and of course youtube videos represent an unbiased example of human activity
Yes fuming @ MSM crime reporting.
But housing crisis - & many other failures = different NYC streetscape, post-Covid.
So yeah, I’m scared on our streets. Have been aggressively accosted, several times. Street & subway.
No crime* - but still feel unsafe.
* [Assault, NYS]
I guess it is possible he lives in high crime neighborhood, but if he thinks Trump is going to bring the cost of eggs down he's nuts
they often issue alerts because they feel nervous or they want other people to feel nervous
If someone is telling you "crime is up!" check to see if they grabbed your wallet
TBC that’s from very high numbers.
The caravans are coming. The caravans are…
dumb-ing
Maga
Screwing
US.
Get Woke People.
Interview with old black man - it was the first time in decades he did not carry a gun. Could hear the happiness in his voice.
[Escambia County is home to some of the baddest LEO, bar none. Even those guys were jazzed on it]
Just the facts is great and all but not when your audience wants a show, and we need to realize that
We also need to do our best the next 4 years to amplify anecdotes about the impact of bad policy and agency demolition by the new administration.
The actual stats don’t support their preferred narrative so they revert back to the same BS they always pull
“The stats are rigged”
Subways can be unpleasant. People telling you its unsafe are lying. I hear this BS on CNN too.
Fixed it for you.
This statistic has no meaning to all but about 700,000 people in this country.
What are the national crime statistics?
However, quoting stats that apply to one tiny part of the country is not supporting his contention that crime is down in general.
It, too, is as misleading as what he's accusing the media of doing.
You posted what OP should have posted.
End of debate, and of Journalism
NYC is essentially the safest large city in the US at this point.
That said, they legit are doing a better job than LA and esp. CHI.
At the end of the day, NY seems like Shangri-La compared to the hellscape that was 1977
https://bsky.app/profile/johnpfaff.bsky.social/post/3ldjabqdxj42h
apparently to some people "rural" means "i have a yard"
an officially designated Urban Place could seem to be very much small-town rural by our common experience
https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch12GARM.pdf
I don't think the official rural/urban designations we see in government stats align well with the cultural self-identification
No post office = rural
Post office = urban
Or maybe
No Post Office, no Public School, no Hospital = rural
i don't necessarily agree about them being pretty much the same, though, i know country people who don't want to live in a small town because townies are so annoying to be around
Unfortunately, most people don't read newspapers.
The problem isn't necessarily "most media," but rather how people choose to get their information.
https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/link-between-media-consumption-and-public-opinion
"The economy has improved, actually!"
"If the economy is better then why am I still poor?"
"You're right, the economy sucks, actually!"
People believe stories, not data.