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Thinking crime has gotten worse, it’s an absolute TV talking point that everyone repeats nowadays. If you try to bring up empirical evidence of crime decreasing every decade they just respond with some anecdotal bullshit they probably made up. It infuriates me and I wanna shout their face, “facts don’t care about your feelings”.
every day my fucking coworker tells everyone about some new violent crime that happened somewhere in the greater metro area because he has an app on his phone that apparently gives push notifications for this stuff. i’m thinkin like “dude why do you have that you are driving yourself insane”
yes he’s a homeowner who commutes from the suburbs, how could you tell?
Bonus points if they do this while living in Chicago or surrounding areas
This is a red flag, but I’d say it’s probably 50/50 on whether someone will dig in when confronted with the reality of the situation vs. listen.
The big issue is getting people to not just listen and nod along, but remember that next time they see a crime story instead of defaulting back to the media narrative.
Both the Conservative CSU and the fascist AfD are running “tough on crime” campaigns here… bruh, even in bigger cities like Nürnberg or München you could leave the door open all day and odds are nothing would happen to your stuff. It’s entirely “young men speaking arabic on the streets - this is very scary!” based, even if this overt forms of scaremongering have passed onto more subtle ones.
Bavaria has like 5 cops per resident, wtf are these people going on about?
