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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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 hours agoThe 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.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours 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.