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Honestly, more than an hour of news a day is likely too much. Your local half hour and the evening news is more than enough for everyone.
Coverage during protests, police brutality, wrongful deaths
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Honestly, more than an hour of news a day is likely too much. Your local half hour and the evening news is more than enough for everyone.
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Try Peoria 1470 at 2 pm... Mark Lee, VanCamp and Robin's show... good stuff.
Local stations around here have gone to 1 1/2 to 2 hours of local news in the evening...
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That's horrible...
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Almost every single person I've talked to thinks violent crime has been rising, and it's too dangerous to let their kids play outside these days.
The truth of the matter is, on a national level, violent crime has been declining for decades, while obesity and diabetes goes up. That's a fact. These people I talk to are generally watching more fear porn, um, sorry, I mean news, than they were years ago.
The truth of the matter is, on a national level, violent crime has been declining for decades, while obesity and diabetes goes up. That's a fact. These people I talk to are generally watching more fear porn, um, sorry, I mean news, than they were years ago.
Hmm
Crime down?
How come sop many of these lately
Rhode Island girl, 9, snatched getting off school bus, terrifying video shows
As the United States struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic and attendant economic disruption, another problem may be looming – murder rates have risen in many of America’s largest cities.
Murders are up by double-digit percentages in cities across America, including New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, according to crime statistics, while some smaller cities like Charlotte, North Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida, have also seen significant increases.
Rates of homicide and gun assault began to increase in late May, according to data from the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice, and while the murder rate is still low compared with previous decades, the evidence is clear: the situation is worsening.
Last year was particularly low for murder, but even compared with the last five years, 2020 has seen a serious increase.
“Overall it is pretty unquestionable that there is more violence, we’re hearing that anecdotally and it’s certainly what the data is showing too,” said Charles Ransford, senior director of science and policy, at Cure Violence Global, an organization which trains outreach workers to intervene and mediate conflict in communities which have a high rate of violence.
Homicides rise across US cities amid pandemic and economic crisis
Violent crime stats and trends during the pandemic:
- Preliminary FBI data for the first six months of 2020 shows murder and non-negligent homicide as up nearly 15% compared to the same time period last year.
- A report by the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) paints an even more dire picture—showing a 53% jump in homicides in 27 major US cities this summer, compared to the last.
- FBI data also shows a 4.6% jump in aggravated assaults between January and June 2020, versus the same period in 2019.
- Aggravated assault rose 14% summer over summer, according to the CCJ analysis.
- Gun violence has been relentless for much of 2020, particularly in major cities like Chicago, New York City, and Philadelphia.
- As of September 28, the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) has recorded 13,641 homicides, murders, and unintentional gun-related deaths for 2020. That’s almost 90% of the total recorded for all of 2019.
- Crime and the Coronavirus: What You Need to Know | SafeWise
Besides that you have a lot of looting and such that is not always accounted for in the categories they have
In addition, you have a lot of unreported events especially from buis that were not going to recover from covid anyway
I spoke to a client in IL said (just 2 months ago) she can't go to CVS because looters burned it down and the streets were too dangerous to go farther because they were all outside harassing people
How much harassing went unreported as well
No way this is a better crime year
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It's almost like crime rates fluctuate depending on the social and cultural dynamic of the country. Just because crime has spiked recently doesn't discount the fact that, overall, it has been steadily declining for decades. But I admire the effort you put into cherry picking anecdotes and statistics to support the notion that America's urban centers are all tortured hellscapes.
Or you can say just because crime has increased this year
does not mean it didn't decline for several years prior which it has
and vica versa that does not take away from the fact that it is up this year
Also not to take away from the fact that a large amount of crime this year is under-reported for a number of reasons and therefore not accounted for accurately
Make no mistake about it many have reason to fear and have personally expere=ienced more crime
Social-economic conditions, as explained, have a great effect on crime rates. The sale of assault weapons also increases after mass shooting events, which typically involve assault weapons purchase after a previous mass shooting.
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I would also add... the type of crime along with the increased amount of specific crimes.
More people speeding is one thing, but and increase of physical attacks based on ethnicity or color says something about a direction the country is taking. I think back to Germany pre war as the crimes against Jews and other ethnic groups were neither reported or punished. Now we can clearly see the direction that was heading.
"What one generation allows in moderation, the next will do to excess." Not sure who said this, but a quick study of history proves it to be very accurate. A frightening fact.
My greatest fear is that there are those who are willing to ride a tiger as a means to and end, not fully understanding that once the end is reached the tiger is still hungry...
A greater understanding of what I am speaking of is how communism chewed its way through untold millions of lives, many of the very same people who supported it wholeheartedly as a way of "retribution" to the ruling class... and this was repeated over and over again.
Lessons unlearned to be repeated... history is a valuable tool if you are willing to look at it and allow it to teach you something.
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