• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    9 days ago

    A big question I ask people is “Why do we feel less safe even though crime is at an all time low?” Not a lot of people have answers, and I think way too many people aren’t aware of that fact. It’s one of the safest times to walk through any downtown core, yet people feel the least safe they ever have.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
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      My ex spouse got an app that gave alerts every time there was anything going down in our neighborhood. They went from cautious to walk around at night to “omg we live in a crime riddled hellhole with people being murdered everywhere” and stopped going outside. People now have access to so much information, often explicitly designed to make you fearful, and we suck at statistics

  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 days ago

    depends, which areas are they counting crime? Which areas are they counting police quitting?

    Don’t take the word of a meme for something like this. Look into how those statistics were counted.

    (edit: Spelling error)

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      9 days ago

      I don’t think that’s what anyone suggests. However the opposite is what needs to be called out. Why do police departments consistently ask for more and more funding, usually looking for reasons to spend it (see urban assault vehicles, larger and more militarized forces) when crime is down already? If they’re doing fine with the budget they have, why do we need to give them even more money?

      “Defund the police” doesn’t mean we have no police. It means they’re overfunded. Let’s see about defunding them and giving some of that money to other people, like mental health advocates or groups that help with homelessness - some of the main causes of crime. Wouldn’t that mean the police can focus on things they are trained for while also cutting crime down at it’s source? If someone is never desperate enough to mug someone in the first place, doesn’t that mean the crime was prevented?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    What’s the percentage chance someone has misunderstood the difference between causation and correlation?

    • Not_mikey@slrpnk.netOP
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      9 days ago

      Not saying less cops = less crime, just debunking the classic thin blue line narrative of less cops = more crime