There may be less crime, but the fear and rage based social media landscape has made everyone way more aware any crimes and tons of suspicions. And geolocation gives proximity to how far it is away from your home. (3/3) @jamellebouie.net @bencollins.bsky.social @atrupar.com @gelliottmorris.com
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Absolutely!
That’s by design because the oligarchs own most of it and they want chaos.
“There may be _________, but the fear and rage based social media landscape has made _________.” This statement is true about (imo) much of what people think/believe today.
Why I won't have and don't need such apps on my phone. That said, I do look in on some of these at home on a tablet or laptop when I have the time, but not to doom scroll.
You are literally on social media
Yep, on my laptop on Blue Sky. The algorithm here does not feed me violence as the other apps we were discussing might. *Everything* is considered "social media" but it does not have to create or exacerbate people's fear of crime in their neighborhood.
This is an old concept in media studies. It was also true pre-social media. People who engage a lot with, say, news, are more likely to overestimate crime levels and their likelihood of ever being victim of a crime. Social media continues and probably amplifies the problem.
P.s. we should all be talking about the dropping crime numbers in amazement given the conditions of increasing wealth inequality, a broken healthcare system, and an economic and environmental path we are on that leaves many younger Americans seeing no positive future for themselves.
Let's don't get so hyped up about dropping numbers. Those numbers are only important because rich people want you to be scared of crime. You know each other. They inflate the numbers for their purposes. They deflate them when they want to. They're meaningless. It's all to keep you on edge. Working?
That is not how crime stats work lol
Crime stats are based entirely on what is reported by police. Crimes against minorities are downplayed or ignored, while reports by the wealthy are treated seriously, even when they are blatant lies. On top of this, there are regularly specific orders to change what is counted in the stats..
Wouldn't it be the opposite? Things like overpolicing in poor/minority communities, discriminatory laws, etc. would result in a higher rate of reported crimes in said communities. Minorities and poor people are over represented in the prison population because of said discrimination
Yes, this is more generally how it works. Crime stats come from a variety of places, too, not just the UCR. There's the NCVS as stated above and some police use the NIBRS. Plus advocacy groups have their own estimates. There is no central crime reporting that Trump can call to manipulate stats.
There doesn't need to be a central reporting system for manipulations to occur, and they occur regularly. I said things badly/wrongly.. but that's the thing I'm concerned with. How we are lied to about crime regularly at multiple levels. >.<
Also, people have almost no comprehension of the root causes of crime, which is why they believe that police prevent and solve crime, when they do very little of either.
The crime reported by law enforcement is only one source of crime data. For example, read about the NCVS, another important input into what data analysts are able to learn about crime in the US. The main reason people think crime is much higher than it is, is because local news hypes it up.
You are incorrect. Yes, I am a criminologist. That is not how anything works. While data reporting from local, state, and federal law enforcement are rolled up into aggregate numbers, advanced statistical methods are also used to correct for non-reporting departments and to drill down on anomalies.
Umm, no. This is not a thing.
Trump's FBI has violent crime down in all Blue States but it's raging in Red State. Funny how that works.
Part of it is that the tetraethyl lead generations are dying off
But it smelled soooo good!
I did laugh at that description of my generation.
Since the 1960s Americans have consistently believed crime was rising. Black people being allowed to visibly achieve, desegregation, immigration, and local TV news all contributed. No reason to believe it’s a Next Door thing. It’s a racism thing.
White Americans are terrified of their own shadows. They terrorize the world. No wonder they are so paranoid.