Is crime going down? Or is it just not reported as much nowadays?
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
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Pretty obvious which one is true.
The stats are also worse because people spend less face-to-face time around others overall/stay at home or, even amongst supposedly “tolerant” liberals, select safer neighborhoods and hang-outs.
Robert Putnam, I think, wrote the book “Bowling Alone” in the 1990s about the loss of American civic association membership, sporting club participation etc.
Atomized individuals may be easier to pick off walking home, and burglaries may be on the rise, especially unreported ones, but most people have drastically reduced public contact that could expose them to crime.
The homicide rate is therefore more deceptive further still. You would expect time spent outside at night now is particularly limited in many places.
Richard Hanania hilariously talks about white liberals in Chicago, his home town, continually choosing not to live around blacks. After all, technically you could save a fortune to buy a cheap house in a black neighborhood, renovate it or knock it down, and have your cherished diversity/reduced “Whiteness”. And then donate the savings to black people as reparations, right?
