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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.

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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Of course no one will notice, because it's beneficial to certain groups to keep pushing the idea that there's a rampant crime wave and we're in more danger than ever.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NY really wants to pass that law to force background checks for 3d printer purchases.

[–] SARGEx117@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless they do the same for lathes, mills, drills, and pressure piping, seems almost like it's a pointless fucking law designed to have a certain look with no factual basis...

Fuck, I could teach someone how to build their own 3d printer from a mix of cheap ebay parts and off the shelf hardware store shit.

Next they'll make it illegal to have technical documentation on the schematics and models for things arbitrarily deemed "dangerous".

Oh wait....

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fact they wrote out three-dimensional highlights they really have no idea what they're talking about but are trying real hard.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Don't worry I have arrived

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

I noticed all these people alive around me the other day. I'm not sure how I feel about it.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Zombie attacks are at an all time low. But the perception of zombie attacks remains high!

  • Dara O'Briain
[–] negativenull@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read that in his voice. The man has a way with words.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Rusticus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I loved that series as well! I’ve mentioned it before though and Reddit seems to think Gladwell is a scam artist for some reason? He’s just a writer ffs.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Violent crimes have gone down.

[–] Fafner@yiffit.net 19 points 1 year ago

Not if the news media has anything to say about it! More at 11.

[–] tillary@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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/

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

U.S. hospitals have made huge strides in preventing gun-related deaths in recent years

We talking treatment or prevention? The former I assume?

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Treatment, which prevents deaths. The number of actual shootings hasn't gone down, only the number of people dying from shootings.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] XbSuper@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yes the cops, and they are doing their part to pump thise number back up.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Who is gathering the data and how? Does homicide by crushing financial burden leading to medical crisis count?

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Good for America.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Almost like the post covid recovery has kicked in but thats not a benificial perpsective we need to hand over our entire private lives so they can prevwnt such crime

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

3d printers aren't magic. If you can 3d print it 9/10 you could carve it out of wood. Going to ban carving knifes?

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I ins steal in my eggs for by slots elf i do

right??

[–] Johanno@feddit.de -4 points 1 year ago

Welcome back in the civilized World