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@wdlindsy@toad.social"The FBI released new data last week showing that violent crime is down in America, but that hate crimes are up. This is completely at odds with right-wing narratives about the United States, which portrays surging violence in lawless 'Democrat-run' cities. Instead, the data show a different picture: violence is down, except against the very social groups that are targeted by right-wing tropes and the MAGA movement."
~ Brian Klaas
@wdlindsy Can we have the media talk about this night over night until the next election? I guess not. Doesn't fit the narrative.
@wdlindsy Very fascinating to follow the links all the way to the FBI CDE database. It shows violent crime per 100,000 people peaked in 1992 at ~760 and in 2022 had dropped to half that. A 50% drop in 31 years.
This stands in stark contrast to the fear mongering of the right, which relies on the fact that nobody actually looks up the statistics. They just look at the sensationalism of the mainstream news-infotainment cycle and assume the world is falling apart.
It is not.
@dontreportme @wdlindsy This isn't an infographic. This is a graph generated on-the-fly by a query. Truncating irrelevant data is a necessity in a generic engine.
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend
@coupland Thank you. Yes. Excellent points.
@wdlindsy
The GOP does not deal with data, they do emotions.
Emotions do not need facts, data, and other such irritating details.
@yacc143 Sounds right to me.
@wdlindsy @lisamelton Wait — the right wing lies to people?! 
@genecowan @lisamelton So it appears!
@wdlindsy @lisamelton Why, that’s just crazy!
@wdlindsy fbi hung up on me when calling per my anomalous health incident report directions received. X 2. [Havana Syndrome] so I doubt my onging torture, violence and stalking was reported.
@WecanbeGyros Sorry to hear that happened to you. Citizens deserve better.
@wdlindsy
"New statistics for 2022 show decrease in violent offenses and rise in hate crime incidents, a majority of which targeted Black people... A majority of hate crimes targeted Black people, with 51.9% of hate crime victims targeted due to 'anti-Black or African American bias'"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/16/hate-crimes-increasing-fbi-report
@jrefior Thank you for sharing.
My 3 cents on this FBI report:
There are more jobs
-->
less unemployment
-->
less violent crime
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Much violent crime is driven by poverty.
Ensuring minimum income, even when people are unemployed, will reduce violent crime and thereby create a better society for all.
@paulschoe Thank you for this insightful commentary.