You made an Important point. The decline is not due to enforcement and a punitive state. It's due to intervention by mindful smart policy makers. Educate more, punish less. 🙏☮️
Certain politicians like to drum up fear of violent street crime to direct our gaze away from white collar and internet crime. The guy that points a gun and says give me your money has an honesty about them that the fraudsters and cons of the business world that have their hands in your pocket will never attain.
Great news. I have been involved in working with troubled youth most of my life (paying a few things forward) and agree with your assessment. Anyone trying to turn the tide should be applauded.
Another major contributor is demographics. Old people rarely commit violent crimes. In these days, we’ll take good news however we can get it.
If violent crime drops faster than ever during Biden's last years and during Trump's first year (= before much of the neofascist GOP's policies take effect), then we clearly have Biden and the Democrats to thank for it.
Democrats systematically use evidence-based strategies, and they are TRULY passionate about reducing crime (even when that means that private prison CEOs will see their income go down). So no, this is not an "American" story. It's the predictable result of serious, evidence-based legislation, designed, negotiated and passed by the only politicians who still know how to take their job seriously and who care more about results than tweets or "messaging"...
By the way, Biden and the Democrats also cut childhood poverty in half, and reduced the percentage of Americans without health insurance to the lowest point ever. And they achieved the lowest unemployment rate in more than half a century. And manufacturing came back to the US (through bills that the GOP repealed immediately, after "we the people" gave them full control over DC again).
Study after study shows that these key factors have a crucial impact on the crime rate (not just in the US, but all around the world).
Since the GOP today is destroying it all, expect violent crime to begin to rise again in the next 2 to 4 years.
In the meantime, we already have the highest number of convicted criminals in the White House and perhaps soon also in Congress. All Republicans...
Unfortunately people don’t feel safe because actual violent crime, perpetrated by our government, against our own people, is at all time high! People are being pepper sprayed, brutalized and murdered by ICE and other vague “law enforcement”. Government pardons and frees violent criminals from prison.. child rapists in Texas, J6ers, proud boys,etc. and violent drug kingpins. We are having our private information stolen,not at gunpoint, but by Doge and Palantir. We see and feel those violations in our own communities and whatever violent crime statistics are.. no one feels safe.
If only you could get the likes of Fox "news" and OANN to report like this. Instead they parrot Trump and his minions who use fear of violence to inure people to their own violence against immigrants, people who disagree with them, and the constitution.
They thrive on creating fear. It's their way of controlling their audience with anger, blaming the Democrats, and bringing Republican talking heads in to rub it all in to the psyche. It's exhausting to watch, and very sad when a loved one falls prey to them.
Honestly, my first thought when reading these dramatic declines years after year was, “How has the data reporting changed?” If departments collecting data at the local level have cutbacks, data accuracy can decline. Same thing all the way up the line. I am working for change, and I am hopeful for the future, but as a mathematician, when the output is unexpected, I always question the input first.
Thank you. We need some good, measurable news! Yes. The credit should go to the American people who do their heroic jobs every day. They are who we are as a nation.
But, according to NPR, experts warn that extreme misogyny is increasingly becoming a factor in far-right terrorism, which has historically focused on white nationalism, anti-Semitism and racism. Although this trend has risen, it often goes unnoticed. Alex DiBranco, co-founder of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, says it is important for there to be a broader public understanding of the connections between these misogynistic narratives and white nationalist violence. In the recent deadly attack on a Muslim house of worship in California, the two teenage suspects were found to have a 75-page manifesto that demonstrated a deep influence from far-right, neo-Nazi ideology. Notably absent from much of the mainstream media coverage was the fact that the manifesto expressed a strong hatred for women, essentially blaming them for everything wrong in the world. This type of misogyny was not prevalent in white supremacist circles 10 to 15 years ago, according to Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
You made an Important point. The decline is not due to enforcement and a punitive state. It's due to intervention by mindful smart policy makers. Educate more, punish less. 🙏☮️
Much needed GOOD news!
Certain politicians like to drum up fear of violent street crime to direct our gaze away from white collar and internet crime. The guy that points a gun and says give me your money has an honesty about them that the fraudsters and cons of the business world that have their hands in your pocket will never attain.
Thank you for making such a great point. Turnaround occurs at the grassroots level, when we care enough to intervene and stay involved.
And that’s how we will turn politics in this country around, grass roots talking to neighbors, insisting on good government for the people.
Great news. I have been involved in working with troubled youth most of my life (paying a few things forward) and agree with your assessment. Anyone trying to turn the tide should be applauded.
Another major contributor is demographics. Old people rarely commit violent crimes. In these days, we’ll take good news however we can get it.
If violent crime drops faster than ever during Biden's last years and during Trump's first year (= before much of the neofascist GOP's policies take effect), then we clearly have Biden and the Democrats to thank for it.
Democrats systematically use evidence-based strategies, and they are TRULY passionate about reducing crime (even when that means that private prison CEOs will see their income go down). So no, this is not an "American" story. It's the predictable result of serious, evidence-based legislation, designed, negotiated and passed by the only politicians who still know how to take their job seriously and who care more about results than tweets or "messaging"...
By the way, Biden and the Democrats also cut childhood poverty in half, and reduced the percentage of Americans without health insurance to the lowest point ever. And they achieved the lowest unemployment rate in more than half a century. And manufacturing came back to the US (through bills that the GOP repealed immediately, after "we the people" gave them full control over DC again).
Study after study shows that these key factors have a crucial impact on the crime rate (not just in the US, but all around the world).
Since the GOP today is destroying it all, expect violent crime to begin to rise again in the next 2 to 4 years.
In the meantime, we already have the highest number of convicted criminals in the White House and perhaps soon also in Congress. All Republicans...
Too bad Trump trashed it all
Unfortunately people don’t feel safe because actual violent crime, perpetrated by our government, against our own people, is at all time high! People are being pepper sprayed, brutalized and murdered by ICE and other vague “law enforcement”. Government pardons and frees violent criminals from prison.. child rapists in Texas, J6ers, proud boys,etc. and violent drug kingpins. We are having our private information stolen,not at gunpoint, but by Doge and Palantir. We see and feel those violations in our own communities and whatever violent crime statistics are.. no one feels safe.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!!!
If only you could get the likes of Fox "news" and OANN to report like this. Instead they parrot Trump and his minions who use fear of violence to inure people to their own violence against immigrants, people who disagree with them, and the constitution.
They thrive on creating fear. It's their way of controlling their audience with anger, blaming the Democrats, and bringing Republican talking heads in to rub it all in to the psyche. It's exhausting to watch, and very sad when a loved one falls prey to them.
Honestly, my first thought when reading these dramatic declines years after year was, “How has the data reporting changed?” If departments collecting data at the local level have cutbacks, data accuracy can decline. Same thing all the way up the line. I am working for change, and I am hopeful for the future, but as a mathematician, when the output is unexpected, I always question the input first.
Thank you. We need some good, measurable news! Yes. The credit should go to the American people who do their heroic jobs every day. They are who we are as a nation.
But, according to NPR, experts warn that extreme misogyny is increasingly becoming a factor in far-right terrorism, which has historically focused on white nationalism, anti-Semitism and racism. Although this trend has risen, it often goes unnoticed. Alex DiBranco, co-founder of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, says it is important for there to be a broader public understanding of the connections between these misogynistic narratives and white nationalist violence. In the recent deadly attack on a Muslim house of worship in California, the two teenage suspects were found to have a 75-page manifesto that demonstrated a deep influence from far-right, neo-Nazi ideology. Notably absent from much of the mainstream media coverage was the fact that the manifesto expressed a strong hatred for women, essentially blaming them for everything wrong in the world. This type of misogyny was not prevalent in white supremacist circles 10 to 15 years ago, according to Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
I'll call this.. Great News Sunday!
This really is good news!
thanks for sharing the good news
I love your perspective. Thank you.