As midterms approach, the conflict and its consequences loom large as campaign issues
  • Zak@lemmy.world
    81·
    2 days ago

    It’s weird crime is a high priority issue when crime rates are low.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, indeed. All kinds of crime have been trending down for decades.

      I remember telling a guy this back in the mid 00s. He was in disbelief. I told him that he really needs to turn off his TV, most especially Faux and local “news”. It’s ruining his brain.

      • Zak@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        I’ve heard from more than one person that they mistrust the FBI stats that say crime is low. None offered a data source saying otherwise.

        Another source with different methodology does exist: the National Crime Victimization Survey. It also says crime is low.

      • jtrek@startrek.website
        5·
        2 days ago

        A friend of mine’s dad lives in a nice suburb of DC. He heard on the “news” that “there was a drug deal” in the city, so he went and bought a gun “to protect his daughter”. He didn’t take any classes on gun safety, and I would be surprised if he stored it safely.

        This is the level many people operate at. Emotional flailing.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      I suspect it’s a weird inverse of survivorship bias. Just using murder as an example, 170 years ago my ancestor killed a military officer and got a 10 dollar bounty, 70 years ago my kinsmen buried bodies in the Mojave and no one took notice, nowadays someone who kills 3 random people outside of a mass shooting is very irregular and worthy of notice. You notice a speck of dirt when something is otherwise spotless.