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David Menschel @davidmenschel.bsky.social

Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social

Larry Sabato says that crime is the Dems' Achilles heel and they need to talk about prices. The Dems can "complain" but too many hate crime and cities and don't care about democracy.

I guess we have to let the police state happen while we drone on about eggs. Can't walk and chew gum apparently.

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  2. gabbklein.bsky.social profile picture

    Gabrielle @gabbklein.bsky.social

    I'm very interested in laws being broken.

    I want Dems to talk about constitutional violations (especially regarding due process and voting rights), conflicts of interest, wage theft, monopolies, price gouging, worker safety law and food safety law violations, HIPAA violations…

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  3. lessbarb.bsky.social profile picture

    LessBarb @lessbarb.bsky.social

    You are so right, but if people "feel" like crime is through the roof, because they are being lied to. Messaging has to address what people are feeling, otherwise their vote cannot be won.

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  4. almagestsf.bsky.social profile picture

    @almagestsf.bsky.social

    I thought the economy is their Achilles heel? Oh wait, I thought immigration is? No, it’s strong defense! Family values! Goodness, how do those poor Democrats walk around at all?!

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  7. pumpkinpal.bsky.social profile picture

    The Pumpkin Dipshit @pumpkinpal.bsky.social

    But it doesn't matter because when these self obsessed dinguses say "crime" what they mean is "Last time I was downtown I saw something that made me feel unsafe* and the list of things they can see that makes them feel unsafe is long, ridiculous, and unapologetically racist.

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  8. hutchymon.bsky.social profile picture

    Mike Hutchinson @hutchymon.bsky.social

    "Soft on defense" and "soft on crime" stopped making any sense when crime stats plummeted and we were war-free in the 90's You fucking hear me, Carville? STFU

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  9. geraldowiggins.bsky.social profile picture

    @geraldowiggins.bsky.social

    I am Australian. The crime rate in your lowest crime cities is WAY higher than rate in all our cities. You know how Rs have ads saying "Biden let this foregeigner in and he did crimes". Why don't Ds do "Trump let this guy buy a gun and he killed children?"

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  10. zman1527.bsky.social profile picture

    John Zimmerman @zman1527.bsky.social

    We constantly let them get awwith these big lies. The reason we have thousands of ICE thugs out stealing people is because too many were convinced that there are millions of violent illegals here.

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    jackson henry @jasonemry.bsky.social

    What if I told you I knew about a device that could take ANY crisis from ANYWHERE in the world and bring it RIGHT TO YOUR DOOR making it VERY MUCH YOUR PROBLEM?

    Don’t worry about worrying anymore, my friend… it’s The Sensationalizer™️!

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  12. pnellesen.bsky.social profile picture

    @pnellesen.bsky.social

    Nearly every single one of my relatives and people I grew up with (I'm in my 60s) thinks crime is the worst it's ever been, that the inner cities are literal battlegrounds of black gangsters, and that it's the Democrats fault. They refuse to listen to or look at anything that contradicts this view.

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  13. elleisdoodling.bsky.social profile picture

    Mitaukano @elleisdoodling.bsky.social

    You can't argue with people who refuse to see the facts for what they are. They will constantly try to make the numbers out to be wrong or scream something about mainstream media.

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  14. jorpelson.bsky.social profile picture

    Phil @jorpelson.bsky.social

    Senior citizens are actually constantly being targeted by criminals, in the form of scams. It’s absurd to act like all crime is street crime and everything will be solved by more guys with guns patrolling the street

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  16. jennys1989.bsky.social profile picture

    @jennys1989.bsky.social

    Erm, excuse me? The 1st and 2nd most powerful men in your country are the most blatant criminals in history, you lot are doing nothing about it and you’re saying crime is LOW?! It couldn’t be much WORSE!

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  17. gm0rk.bsky.social profile picture

    @gm0rk.bsky.social

    Whether its crime, economics, military, or trans people, Dems biggest weakness is conceding ground to conservative talking points.

    Dem leadership always presumes GOP "strength" on these issues is immutable so just takes the lies as a given.

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  23. wilranney.bsky.social profile picture

    Wil Ranney @wilranney.bsky.social

    I’d be willing to bet that more privileged people are more afraid though, because they’ve been conditioned to be that way by Fox News and the like.

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  24. bustedupskier.bsky.social profile picture

    @bustedupskier.bsky.social

    Yes, but...people don't feel statistics as truthful and favorable as they might be. People feel what they see in person or on TV, what they hear, what they read. Turning this supertanker is a huge job that must be undertaken. Yesterday.

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  25. mytfinn.bsky.social profile picture

    Mytfinn @mytfinn.bsky.social

    But every time there is a mass shooting, it doesn’t feel like crime is going down. And that’s enough to skew the perception if not the reality.

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  28. mumboejumboh.bsky.social profile picture

    Mumboejumboh @mumboejumboh.bsky.social

    If I'm obliged to speculate about this I would wager that, primarily, people concerned about crime live in areas with a significant amount of crime. It's not a nationwide epidemic, but I think it's naive to act as though crime simply isn't an issue at all everywhere in the US.

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  30. ponsterm.bsky.social profile picture

    @ponsterm.bsky.social

    But that's a big problem for GOP voters who've been absolutely convinced that black and brown people are inherently criminal. If crime goes down while diversity is going up, it puts a major crack in the foundation of white supremacy. To them, crime HAS to go up if society is growing more diverse.

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  32. brienmcmullen.bsky.social profile picture

    Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow @brienmcmullen.bsky.social

    I think it's ineffective to tell people crime if down bc they believe what they want.

    My approach would be "We know how to lower crime, by addressing the root causes. Drugs, poverty etc. We need to be proactive & help people before they get in that situation rather than wait and fill our prisons.

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  36. richardroysterlpc.bsky.social profile picture

    Richard Royster, LPCA @richardroysterlpc.bsky.social

    Why do so many people not know this? (And other amazing positive things regarding poverty, economic opportunity, medicine, the environment, etc.) Because the media has a vested interest in scaring the shit out of you and making everything sound like society is going to hell.

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  39. lenarivkah.bsky.social profile picture

    Dr Lena H @lenarivkah.bsky.social

    What’s really horrifying to me here beyond the obvious political horrors he’s abetting is, back in my academia days, I had to TA from his government textbook. What else is Sabato spewing misinformation about, in a textbook that college students were told to treat as factual? 😡

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  40. agulbuf.bsky.social profile picture

    @agulbuf.bsky.social

    In 1960, we didn’t have HATENews365, a media company devoted to making Americans hate, fear, and despise each other (and especially, you know, those Americans).

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  41. andreastudiescovid.bsky.social profile picture

    Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social

    I am 65, and a criminologist. Crime has plummeted since 1980. What remains is a function of poverty and wealth inequality, which the US is unmotivated to abolish. Abolish poverty and you'll have very little violent/property crime. Abolish wealthy white men and you'll have less white collar crime.

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  44. bsamos42.bsky.social profile picture

    Brent Amos @bsamos42.bsky.social

    Crime doesn’t feel at all time lows because news sensationalizes everything. Especially local broadcast news. Then there’s all the neighborhood groups and local stringers that hyperventilate over every tiny thing.

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  48. kiyallsmith.bsky.social profile picture

    @kiyallsmith.bsky.social

    The people trying to scare us about the high crime rates are actually the ones we should be scared of. And they are often engaged in illegal and/or criminal behavior while they spread these lies.

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  50. maryjoy.bsky.social profile picture

    Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social

    I grew up in PNW. We moved TWICE because serial killers dropped bodies too close to where we lived (Bianchi and Bundy).

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  52. archiethemonkey.bsky.social profile picture

    Archie the Keyboard Monkey @archiethemonkey.bsky.social

    I mean... people on the left don't have a problem handling crime. People on the left just has an approach to crime that isn't merely "shove all the undesirable people in a cage and shoot any who resist." and suddenly we're seen as lax on crime.

    If anything, we're all lax on white collar crime.

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