How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind

Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by YZF on Sunday October 30, 2022 @03:59PM (#33398049)

"Crime is surging" seems to be the current thing in the political discourse. That's how conservatives are attacking liberals these days in the US and in other places. It's mostly not supported by numbers (at least I checked where I live).

Crime rates have multiple causes to them, many go years back.

Maybe we should try to address the root causes instead of locking up more people? We have tough times economically, many reasons for people to despair, endless incitement to violence as means of resolving disagreements or other problems.

At the very least, a harsher approach to law enforcement has to be coupled with some path forward to address the other issues.

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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by pessimizer on Sunday October 30, 2022 @04:39PM (#33398423)

> That's how conservatives are attacking liberals these days in the US and in other places.

Primarily as a completely organized and funded way to attack recently elected "progressive" city officials. After the enemy prosecutor/sheriff disappears, the crime wave evaporates as fast as the complaints about kids in cages did when Biden took over.

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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by YZF on Sunday October 30, 2022 @04:50PM (#33398525)

You mean migrants at the border ;) Elections in the age of social media.

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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by alex_sf on Sunday October 30, 2022 @04:17PM (#33398219)

Sure, let's try to reduce the crime rate. Let's also not just ignore crimes and refuse to imprison people for them.

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Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind by throwaway894345 on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:56AM (#33406651)

You are mistaken. Homicides are up 60% in the US since the pre-BLM era. This is widely acknowledged among criminologists and isn’t some “conservative misinformation”. Lots of research indicates at a causal relationship between the BLM protests and crime surges, including research that compares crime rates in individual cities before and after a major BLM protest. At some point I should just compile a canned list of papers so I don’t have to dig up links every time this talking point comes up.

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