Biden Ended the Trump Crime Wave(www.nytimes.com)

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world

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22 days ago

It is exhausting to hear people talk about “The Crime Wave!” every time any crime metric ticks up by even the smallest margin. We haven’t had “high crime” in the US since the early 90s, but we get media coverage of crime like every major city is an active war zone.

Every four years, we have a President waltz in - point at a blip downward - and say he “Solved Crime!” by throwing an extra ten billion at domestic security budgets. Then a new contender shows up and insists we still need even more cops, because a different stat blipped upwards.

I’d argue the pandemic isn’t really over, but most of its social impacts are.

You’re going to get a lot of very angry people posting at you for suggesting COVID continues to plague the country (particularly service sector workers and people working in meat packing plants, where the disease still runs rampant).

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Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world

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22 days ago

Yeah, I am in my 40s and when people significantly older than me talk about how crime is worse than it has ever been I am always like “I guess you don’t remember 1970-2000”.

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