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Not trying to defend our national dystopian nightmare of a surveillance state — but I'm pretty sure this is wrong? Crime's been decreasing for years, and (from
by jackp96 1mo ago
Not trying to defend our national dystopian nightmare of a surveillance state — but I'm pretty sure this is wrong?
Crime's been decreasing for years, and (from what I understand) this year is tracking to be one of the safest years on record?
Definitionally, there absolutely has to be a correlation (not causation) between those two factors you listed.
https://ourworldindata.org/us-crime-rates https://ourworldindata.org/us-crime-rates
- edoceo 1mo agoDidn't freakenomocs claim it (crime rate) was (primarilary) about abortion in the 1970s and less unwanted (and unsupervised/undisciplined) children growing up?
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- Grombobulous 1mo agoThere’s also the leaded gasoline theory.
- Grombobulous 1mo agoThese charts make the exact point I was making. Most of the crime decrease from its peak happened before the year 2000. That means back in the days of law enforcement needing to do low-tech wiretapping techniques, crime was still rapidly decreasing. There’s just not even a correlation. And, as a reminder, correlation is not causation even if it was there.