Re:Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US
by spookthesunset on Friday September 24, 2021 @01:56PM
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We are gonna see the effects of these lockdowns and restrictions play out for years. We’ve got an entire generation of kids growing up that have missed more than a year of school and still aren’t back to “normal school. Wait until they become adults!
The sad part is plenty of people warned about this sort of thing but they were (and still are) censored, bullied, harassed, gaslit, you name it.
This myopic fixation on exactly one single disease to the exclusion of literally everything else in life is gonna go down as one of the worst public policy fuckups of all time.
Re:Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US
by nickthemagicman on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:32PM
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> Defunding the police is about taking away their military grade equipment, nothing to do with your everyday murder.
You're mixing up defunding the police with demilitarizing the police.
Two different topics.
I find it way more likely, and interesting, that covid had a major role in the rise of homicides. The lockdowns/restrictions and their social / mental health impacts: people losing their loved ones, jobs, financial/mental struggles, domestic violence, &c. You can live in the most policed country in the world, if you're locked down with your abusive/violent partner for X months violence will happen