I’ve been going over crime stats in NYC and the state generally, and I think I drilled in on how the propaganda in New York works. Basically the NYPD releases monthly stats which occasionally will be featured in a cherry picking, inflammatory click-bait NY Post article
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Other outlets will run the same thing or reference it. Then by the time year end or compiled crime stats come out a several months later, nobody cares
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As a trend line over 5 or 10 years, crime is generally down or in major categories that people pretend to care about, relatively consistent (like aggravated assaults).
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And very obviously, looking at a long enough timeline, upticks in crime happen to coincide almost directly with periods of greater economic stress. Shocking stuff! But partisans will tell you it’s because they are holding less people pre-trial or whatever
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It’s also funny that the people in New York who are not in the 5 boroughs complain about the crime happening there as if they care and in the next breath talk about how they’d never live in the city
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A “tough on crime” approach is giving money to communities that are over-policed, not feeding the machine that creates the conditions that make more crime!
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Yeah, LAPD does the same. Luckily we have and really loving that conversation forward and demanding transparency from LASD and LAPD.
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seems to be SOP everywhere, but especially funny in NYC where theoretically there are people politically who would want to push back on the fake narrative. somehow, nobody does, because oh of course media, city pols, etc are all bougie people who experience crime same as cops
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don’t cross reference w/ COVID data and/or housing data because you will go completely insane
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