Why are we talking about crime in cities where there isn't any extraordinary crime when the CDC was shot up with 100s of bullets killing a police officer and state politicians have been assassinated?
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Why are we talking about crime in cities where there isn't any extraordinary crime when the CDC was shot up with 100s of bullets killing a police officer and state politicians have been assassinated?
There *is* a crime problem. It's right wing political violence.
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Why are we talking about crime in cities where there isn't any extraordinary crime when the CDC was shot up with 100s of bullets killing a police officer and state politicians have been assassinated?
There *is* a crime problem. It's right wing political violence.
@futurebird "crime problem" = "insufficient white supremacy", particularly "they're not white, and they don't look or act like they're afraid of me".
I think it's a mistake to go get crime statistics; it has nothing to do with crime statistics (not in any plausible way) and an awful lot to do with externalised fears.
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@futurebird "crime problem" = "insufficient white supremacy", particularly "they're not white, and they don't look or act like they're afraid of me".
I think it's a mistake to go get crime statistics; it has nothing to do with crime statistics (not in any plausible way) and an awful lot to do with externalised fears.
Totally agree. I do think, however, that mild symptoms of urban disorder can make less politically tuned in people susceptible to this kind of propaganda.
Which is why now is a great time for mayors of big cities to put a little focus on sanitation. The right talks about sanitation a lot in connection with this issue as if persecuting people will make the trash go away.
But we could actually make cities cleaner and everyone would like it.
