Crime is massively going up in the NCVS, which has nothing to do with crime being detected or not detected.
Between 2021 and 2022 rates of both property and violent crimes recorded by the NCVS increased slightly. However, both are still lower than in 2018 and the overall statistical trend remains downwards, as it has been for decades. The only reason this claim makes any sense is because the 2021 rates from property crimes and the 2020 rates for violent crimes were the lowest ever recorded.
The statistical anomaly here is actually that reported crime victimization rates have been unusually low for a couple of years. This is actually a global phenomenon, likely caused by the pandemic.
You're literally trying to argue crime going up is good somehow.
Because most crimes are not reported. This has been true forever. Reporting is by far the biggest statistical determinant of crime statistics, and as such any increase in crime statistics is overwhelmingly likely to indicate an change in reporting or recording rather than an actual change in the prevalence of crime. There is a toxic incentive for police departments to try and keep crime figures as low as possible when, in fact, low crime statistics are likely to be a sign of poor performance, if not intentional malpractice.
Hell, there was a reporter doing just a random interview of a person going to the grocery store in San Francisco and asked the guy if he knew the store had shoplifting issues and he said on live TV basically that "yeah, I've stolen from here before myself". That demonstrates people know there's no repercussions.
Yeah, there generally are no repercussions for shoplifting. Do you want there to be?
What do you think the average person is far more concerned about the 12 homicides that happen in Chicago every week or amount of right-wing homicides that doesn't even add up to 12 a year normally?
The "average person" doesn't have to be concerned about either. That's not really the point.
Again, how often do you think school shootings happen?
Again... not the point. They happen often enough to make active shooter drills a normal part of school life for millions of children.
They aren't infiltrating the police/military like Hydra and trying to take it over, they are going to acquire the skills they want.
Yes. That is what infiltration means. Well done.
Hydra is a fictional organization. Fiction is not reality. The threat of real far-right infiltration is not the same as in a fictional story, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Far right sympathizers in the police and military can use their position to do a lot of harm in the here and now. If the guy with a gun who is pulling you over for speeding is a white supremacist, that could make a very big difference to how you are likely to be treated as a member of the public.
Also, for many the ultimate goal is to take over these institutions. A central part of Q-Anon belief, for example, is that when the time comes the military will support Donald Trump and stage a coup against the evil deep state government. Many believed that
would happen on January 6th. Again, these are fictional ideas but they reflect real beliefs and ambitions.
The far left is very vocal on tons of issues that the average person doesn't agree with and doesn't want.
Free speech.
Terminal is acting like people are actively living in fear of the far-right on a daily basis, and that's just blowing this shit way out of proportion.
Well, part of that is that I've personally been a victim of about half a dozen hate crimes, including violent assaults. I am actually past fear, at this point, because I am sufficiently accustomed to violence that I no longer find the idea frightening. Bear in mind, I live in a relatively safe and tolerant part of the world where the far right does not have particularly widepsread support. I can't begin to imagine what it would be like to live somewhere where you genuinely might be afraid to call the police for fear that whoever shows up armed at your door might have the means and desire to kill you.
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