Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime

• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well someone has to bring the crime back up

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Those privately owned prisons won’t fill themselves.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The curious thing about US crime statistics is that we only count crimes against the state. We never count crimes committed by the state.

  I would argue that US Crime has been sharply on the rise, from within the organs of the government itself.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The definition of “crime” is pretty much controlled by a small number of people: It ain’t a crime if there’s no law against it.

    Always remember that the mass murder of Jews and Roma in NAZI Germany wasn’t a crime because it was all legal. Similarly, Slavery wasn’t a crime in most of the World, and even today in many countries, such as the US some forms of it (for example using prisioners as forced labour) aren’t a crime.

    We’ve been indoctrinated into in everyday speech conflate Legality with Morality (as its very useful for those who control lawmaking for the riff-raff to unthinkingly shun those deemed law-breakers and side with law-enforcers), so IMHO it’s a good idea to, once in a while, remind oneself that Laws are made by Humans, not Gods, and the reasons for Humans to make Laws as they are, are messy and the results themselves are often bad and easy to selectivelly interpret and abuse.

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    True but I didn’t want to get into the nitty gritty and just comment on the conservative “crime in the streets!!” fantasy

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Rightwingers keep trying to make Cali look like a crime ridden cesspool and Texas the peak of law and order, but crime statics between the two are marginal. They tend to shutdown whenever I cite sources on that.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    texas has more murders, shooting on average. and they believe it to be the opposite.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  which they arnt, because actual gangs will shoot you on sight. thats why the FOR-PROFIT prisons and gop is freaking out that thier CASH cow is drying up.

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