Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn’t increased. But the perception of a crime wave still colors U.S. politics.
Welcome back in the civilized World
Zombie attacks are at an all time low. But the perception of zombie attacks remains high!
- Dara O’Briain
I read that in his voice. The man has a way with words.
This is so sad to see and I hope the United States gets its mojo back as a murder capital of the universe.
This is probably the liberals fault. Everyone should be murdering everyone else, that’s the American way.
Don’t worry I have arrived
Has crime actually gone down, or have homicide rates gone down? Malcolm Gladwell did a great series on his podcast recently that points out that when trauma centers save more lives of GSW victims, the homicide rates go down simply because not as many people die -even though there are just as many bullets hitting humans.
Not if the news media has anything to say about it! More at 11.
Malcolm Gladwell talks on his podcast about how U.S. hospitals have made huge strides in preventing gun-related deaths in recent years (except in minority cases where hospitals are too far). We also have very little data on non-death gun-related injuries, making it impossible to say whether crime rates are improving when it comes to guns. The last two episodes in the series explain the crime perception pretty well.
In fact, this post alludes the fact that the number of assaults in the US has been on an increase since 2013. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191231/reported-aggravated-assault-rate-in-the-us-since-1990/
Probably not since crimes of desperation are on the fall, leaving the really gruesome heinous shit for “if it bleeds it leads” publishers to jump all over.
You might notice coverage of political violence and hate crimes have been on the rise, this ain’t because of a journalistic inclination to cover the problems of society, it’s because violent crime has fallen enough that hate crimes and political violence are a sizeable chunk of what’s left to report on for red journalists.
