The same can be said if there are four more years of leftist Democrat rule
in the United States…
UnHerd Reader
4 months ago
Kinda sad. People wear their designer clothes and expensive jewelry so peons like us know our place on the class ladder. They’re also a means, especially for women, to display their beauty. They have dermatologists on speed dial. I don’t.
The drop in crime is mostly the back side of the Covid era spike in crime. It is not an improvement over pre-Covid levels. Rest assured, Americans have not lost their taste for mayhem. Additionally, some of what appears to be improvement in numbers is merely a broad effort to redefine what constitutes crime, the most prevalent example being the resetting of the threshold for felony property crime in dollar amounts. In many cities a $500 theft used to be a felony but is no longer, $1,000 being the new benchmark.
Also, in jurisdictions where prosecutors stopped bringing many types of crime to court due to progressive “social justice” politics, police stopped arresting for those categories of crimes and criminals. Why arrest criminals who will not be prosecuted? Finally, the American Left enabled the Covid era spike via relentless messaging in Democratic-controlled jurisdictions and in the media that violent demonstrations in the wake of the George Floyd incident were justified and would not be suppressed. “Defund the Police” was the mantra and the message was embraced by legions of derelicts who wrought havoc until the foolishness became too obvious to ignore. Democrats taking credit for a drop in crime is just spin for the election.
Crime statistics may have gone down. Crime has done no such thing. It’s the REPORTING of crime that’s decreased. I call bullshit on that. Those books are cooked.
J S
4 months ago
If you legalize crime then it’s no longer a crime. Theft is so bad in NY and LA basic goods are locked up at stores but that no longer counts.
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SubscribeNever mind. After five years of Labour no one will have anything worth nicking, the state having got there first.
The same can be said if there are four more years of leftist Democrat rule
in the United States…
Kinda sad. People wear their designer clothes and expensive jewelry so peons like us know our place on the class ladder. They’re also a means, especially for women, to display their beauty. They have dermatologists on speed dial. I don’t.
That sounds very bitter. Not an attractive trait.
The drop in crime is mostly the back side of the Covid era spike in crime. It is not an improvement over pre-Covid levels. Rest assured, Americans have not lost their taste for mayhem. Additionally, some of what appears to be improvement in numbers is merely a broad effort to redefine what constitutes crime, the most prevalent example being the resetting of the threshold for felony property crime in dollar amounts. In many cities a $500 theft used to be a felony but is no longer, $1,000 being the new benchmark.
Also, in jurisdictions where prosecutors stopped bringing many types of crime to court due to progressive “social justice” politics, police stopped arresting for those categories of crimes and criminals. Why arrest criminals who will not be prosecuted? Finally, the American Left enabled the Covid era spike via relentless messaging in Democratic-controlled jurisdictions and in the media that violent demonstrations in the wake of the George Floyd incident were justified and would not be suppressed. “Defund the Police” was the mantra and the message was embraced by legions of derelicts who wrought havoc until the foolishness became too obvious to ignore. Democrats taking credit for a drop in crime is just spin for the election.
Spot on.
Crime statistics may have gone down. Crime has done no such thing. It’s the REPORTING of crime that’s decreased. I call bullshit on that. Those books are cooked.
If you legalize crime then it’s no longer a crime. Theft is so bad in NY and LA basic goods are locked up at stores but that no longer counts.