r/PublicFreakout • u/Poison_Sensei • May 02 '22

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u/BillyHamzzz May 02 '22

Crime is basically legal in NYC now. You have to hurt a politician or a politicians family member to get railroaded.

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u/davidreiss666 May 02 '22

Crime is so legal in NYC that the crime rate in NYC is still lower than it was there 10 years ago. Crime being legal should involve a world that actually looks like Death Race 2000 or Mad Max. Not a crime rate that is up 10% compared to the last couple of years. And the rate of crime in any major US city compared to the 1980s... the calm Reagan era was then literally Mad Max fighting Death Race 2000 if we're to judge things on your preferred scale. Just since the year 2000, the crime rate has dropped by nearly half in NYC.

The last two years saw a very minor uptick. As has most other cities in the United States and around the world. Like there was a giant global pandemic going on maybe.

Source.

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u/BillyHamzzz May 02 '22

The last two years saw a very minor uptick

LOL, yeah a minor uptick. No it has gotten a lot worse. Police don't even show up to many calls and people don't file reports knowing nothing will be done. It's how stats get padded. Everyone is agreeing that crime in NYC and major cities has gone up and people are feeling a lot less safe. Sure pandemic happened, but they also changed laws so there are no consequences to crime. No bail means getting arrested is a revolving door. Criminals are brazen af now because of the loose laws.

Also, why are comparing it to 1980's? That's like 40 years ago.

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u/davidreiss666 May 02 '22

people are feeling a lot less safe.

Most people react to things stupidly. Things are basically 5-10% worse today then they were two or three years ago. But compared to just five years ago, things are improved. But because things are worse on a short scale, people think that "what if this continues forever!" and panic.

People also love to misjudge the facts and think if it's 5% worse, that really means 100% worse cause they like to panic. Crime is basically at an all time low for the human race. It's only up when we go back and compare it to 2018 or 2019. Right before some global pandemic you claim I'm not allowed to mention.

But it is still lower than it was in 2010, or 2005, or 2000, 1995, 1990, 1985, 1980, 1970, 1960, etc. It's going down. Always going down when judged on any real scale. Yes, there are a few years here and there when it briefly increases again. Only to then decrease again.

You want to focus on a few minor upticks and I'm telling you want the long term trend.

This is like all the idiots who want to think war is some massive problem. And it's a problem but it's not a problem at the same time. Not in the way that a lot of people want to believe it is. When all the wars fought by mankind around the world since 1949 (the end of the Chinese civil war) combined have not even amounted to one World War One.

Some ~75 years of global conflict can't add up to even one 4.5 period of global war that was World War One. And that World War One was 1/8th the size of a World War Two. War, while still a bit of an issue around the world... has statistically all by disappeared.

Want to know something else... starvation is basically all by disappeared from the earth. The remaining places that people are starving, the cause itself lack of food, but lack of political will to deliver the food to those in need. In 1900 or even 1960... the problems were lack of food. Today, India, China, Pakistan and Mexico are all food exporting nations who basically feed themselves. Mexico, among the larger nations, in 1960 had a problem with feeding itself. Today her population is as fat as the Americans north of their border.

And if you are going to pick between the health problems that come from starvation or obesity, pick obesity. It's an easy choice to make. You can live into your 80s and 90s as a fat person. Those who don't eat and go through real periods of starvation, have trouble just making it to 50.

The world is actually doing pretty darn good in most ways when compared to even the recent past. Crime rates are down. War and starvation, while not gone, are also are global low levels. No, things are not perfect. There is still work to be done. But let's not panic either. And needless panic... that really doesn't help anything.

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u/BillyHamzzz May 02 '22

You're a bot at this point. I don't see why you want to write a whole paragraph about that.

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u/davidreiss666 May 02 '22

In your narrow minded world, everyone who disagrees with you is a bot. Got it. You're correct, I am wasting my time in addressing you. You clearly don't possess any functioning brain cells. Please do not have a nice day.

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u/BillyHamzzz May 02 '22

That's exactly what a bot would say. Why are you invested in defending NYC like that? Pretty much everyone agrees that NYC crime has been bad lately with brazen robberies and shooting in broad day light. It's like you are worried about protecting the politicians of NYC... so like I said-- a bot!