Murder up 35.7% YTD relative to 2019 (2020)(twitter.com)
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Murder up 35.7% YTD relative to 2019 (2020)
https://twitter.com/Crimealytics/status/1330991403695034368
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I wonder if there was a quiet decision across police departments to reduce presence in light of the riots and widespread lash back.
Certainly these departments won’t announce the official policy, the same way they didn’t for all their other polices.
Certainly these departments won’t announce the official policy, the same way they didn’t for all their other polices.
Dunno how much this affects how much policing is being done: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/07/us-cities-de...
But it seems like there are a number of police departments that have less money to operate.
But it seems like there are a number of police departments that have less money to operate.
this is not interesting? hes comparing raw murder numbers. differences of 150 murders to 160. what WOULD be interesting is the change in murder rate per capita, and compare that over a longer period of time to see if that number has actually increased significantly in the wider picture, not just for the dates that were cherry picked here
I don't have enough information to comment on the YoY statistic, as I am sure it could be due to a variety of 2020-esque factors.
But I will comment on the murder rate in Philadelphia. Good lord that's a lot of murders per capita (NYC has 5x the population of Philadelphia)
But I will comment on the murder rate in Philadelphia. Good lord that's a lot of murders per capita (NYC has 5x the population of Philadelphia)
...in the US.
But what about the rest of the world?
But what about the rest of the world?
I want to see a further analysis. A huge jump like this will certainly leave a readable trail in the data. There is plenty we could learn from this.
... in the US. Anyone got comparable stats for other countries or is this another aspect of the US's unexpectedly high violence?
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...
For the UK it was a high year, but that's partly because the ONS are counting homicide, which in this case includes the death of 39 people in the back of a lorry in Essex. (https://news.sky.com/story/essex-lorry-deaths-two-men-found-...)
So its either up 8% including these people in the back of the lorry, or 1% if you exclude it.
nowhere near the 39% quoted in OP.
For the UK it was a high year, but that's partly because the ONS are counting homicide, which in this case includes the death of 39 people in the back of a lorry in Essex. (https://news.sky.com/story/essex-lorry-deaths-two-men-found-...)
So its either up 8% including these people in the back of the lorry, or 1% if you exclude it.
nowhere near the 39% quoted in OP.
Your first link only contains data up until March 2020, so would only include 3 of the ~10 months in the original posts data.
Good spot. Alas Its too late to edit or withdraw.
There are reasons to be extraordinarily careful with these kinds of statistics - for example in germany the statistics are based on when the crime is reported, not when it occurred. We had one spike in germany between 2016-2018 when hundreds of potential cases attributed to a single serial killer entered the statistics. Most of these cases had been committed a decade earlier.
Here's one small data point that popped up in my feed the other day. I haven't fact-checked this with any other sources though.
"No one has been murdered in Norway so far this year"
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-norway-year.amp
"No one has been murdered in Norway so far this year"
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-norway-year.amp
Norway has some of the lowest homicide rates worldwide (about 10x fewer per capita vs US), and is also a tiny country population-wise.
You'll have trouble finding statistically significant trends there year-to-year, yet alone in a few months.
Further, given how culturally different those countries are, trying to compare the two would be ludicrous.
You'll have trouble finding statistically significant trends there year-to-year, yet alone in a few months.
Further, given how culturally different those countries are, trying to compare the two would be ludicrous.
> Further, given how culturally different those countries are, trying to compare the two would be ludicrous.
If the original post was making a comment about american culture (its "hyperviolence"), why wouldn't you compare it to a different culture? That is how comparisons work.
If the original post was making a comment about american culture (its "hyperviolence"), why wouldn't you compare it to a different culture? That is how comparisons work.
> why wouldn't you compare it to a different culture? That is how comparisons work.
Sure, yes. That's how comparisons work if you'd wanted to make that kind of comparison. Or you might want to compare to similar countries where you don't have to control for so many variables.
Sure, yes. That's how comparisons work if you'd wanted to make that kind of comparison. Or you might want to compare to similar countries where you don't have to control for so many variables.
there is probably no similar country to US in this kind of regard, unless you start ignoring pretty important factors (high criminality rate, western democracy, prevalence of legal and illegal guns and so on)
>Norway has some of the lowest homicide rates worldwide (about 10x fewer per capita vs US), and is also a tiny country population-wise.
That's why you compare the crimes commited per capita. The demographics of Norway and that of the USA is nothing alike.
That's why you compare the crimes commited per capita. The demographics of Norway and that of the USA is nothing alike.
To quote myself: "homicide rates".
So yes I was comparing per-capita. However Norway is so tiny that fluctuations of even +/- 50% year-to-year are likely to be just noise.
A tiny country may have one homicide one year, then three the next. Or as a journalist would put it: "Murders in Norway skyrocket. Up 200%."
So yes I was comparing per-capita. However Norway is so tiny that fluctuations of even +/- 50% year-to-year are likely to be just noise.
A tiny country may have one homicide one year, then three the next. Or as a journalist would put it: "Murders in Norway skyrocket. Up 200%."
But five million is not "a tiny country". It's the fourth decile or so. It's slightly larger than Los Angeles in population and apparently Los Angeles homicide rate has oscillated in the 5.0-6.3 per 100k region between 2010 and 2019, with annual ±10% fluctuations. That's way less than ±50% that you expect for the same population.
Population density of Norway is about 38 people per square mile.
Population density of LA is 7009 people per square mile.
I don't think it's a fair comparison just because absolute population is similar.
I don't think it's a fair comparison just because absolute population is similar.
You do realize you're posting in a thread where someone just posted an article saying the number of homicides this year so far in Norway were 0? Last year they had 31.
How is that relevant for the claim whether five million is or isn't tiny? It's not tiny, as the comment I responded to was claiming.
So exactly what do you mean by tiny?
If Norway had the same homicide rate as the whole of the US in 2019 (as it doesn't seem they've release the 2020 ones yet), according to the FBI[1] the homicide rate in the US was 5.0 murders per 100,000 people. Norway has a population of 5.4 million.
So for Norway, that would have been 270.
Does that seem like a fluctuation?
You're severely misrepresenting the facts as your figures are out by two orders of magnitude.
[1]https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-....
If Norway had the same homicide rate as the whole of the US in 2019 (as it doesn't seem they've release the 2020 ones yet), according to the FBI[1] the homicide rate in the US was 5.0 murders per 100,000 people. Norway has a population of 5.4 million.
So for Norway, that would have been 270.
Does that seem like a fluctuation?
You're severely misrepresenting the facts as your figures are out by two orders of magnitude.
[1]https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-....
You do realize you're posting in a thread where someone just posted an article saying the number of homicides this year so far in Norway were 0? Last year they had 31.
That's an order of magnitude off from the homicide rate of the US, which you just quoted.
Why are you even using the US' homicide rate and applying it to Norway?
That's an order of magnitude off from the homicide rate of the US, which you just quoted.
Why are you even using the US' homicide rate and applying it to Norway?
> Why are you even using the US' homicide rate and applying it to Norway?
because they are considered simarly developed countries, but as far as violence stats go (especially gun violence) USA is more comparable to developing countries.
because they are considered simarly developed countries, but as far as violence stats go (especially gun violence) USA is more comparable to developing countries.
Even many African countries like Ghana, Cameroon, and Tunisia have a lower murder rate than the US.
Italy has similar homicide rates: 5 per million.
But also a population 12 times larger than Norway (60 million people).
Los Angeles and Norway have a comparable population, in Los Angeles in 2020 there have been 300 homicides, a 20% increase over 2019, despite covid. It's more than the whole Italy that stopped at 271, 14% less than 2019 that ended with 315 homicides.
Los Angeles has the same size of Rome, in Rome there have been "only" 15 homicides in 2020, 20 times less than LA.
US is the outlier in the West, all the other developed countries have comparable homicide rates.
Japan has the lowest rates globally, in 2017 they had 56 times less homicides per capita than in USA.
But also a population 12 times larger than Norway (60 million people).
Los Angeles and Norway have a comparable population, in Los Angeles in 2020 there have been 300 homicides, a 20% increase over 2019, despite covid. It's more than the whole Italy that stopped at 271, 14% less than 2019 that ended with 315 homicides.
Los Angeles has the same size of Rome, in Rome there have been "only" 15 homicides in 2020, 20 times less than LA.
US is the outlier in the West, all the other developed countries have comparable homicide rates.
Japan has the lowest rates globally, in 2017 they had 56 times less homicides per capita than in USA.
> US is the outlier in the West, all the other developed countries have comparable homicide rates.
How developed is the US really? Here's a non exhaustive list of things I and people in my surroundings think moves the US closer to a developing country like India than a developed country.
Democracy wise: Broken voting system
Technology wise: Still using insecure CC and cash only
Healthcare wise: Insurance companies ripping you off
Infrastructure wise: Fiber optics still uncommon, train system is crap
Social security: Friends and family (hopefully) only
Legal system: Carreers are on the line with big cases, so rather than getting to the truth corruption takes over big cases
Freedom: You're free to carry weapons in town that could wipe out the entire mall. (But the government has nukes and tanks, thank god you can shoot them with an assault rifle now)
Education: Only if your parents planned ahead and can afford it, never ending cycle to keep poor people poor (I know there are grants and exceptions)
Religion: Still a significant percent following the person in the clouds.
I've never been to the US, but these are things "Swedes" (My social circle) commonly joke about when talking about the US, seeing videos, news, articles from your media online.
I do realise i might come off as quite arrogant, but this is the picture the US presents, the list from above could probably quite easily be broken down by exceptions and differences between states, It's only there to reflect back what I/we see.
How developed is the US really? Here's a non exhaustive list of things I and people in my surroundings think moves the US closer to a developing country like India than a developed country.
Democracy wise: Broken voting system
Technology wise: Still using insecure CC and cash only
Healthcare wise: Insurance companies ripping you off
Infrastructure wise: Fiber optics still uncommon, train system is crap
Social security: Friends and family (hopefully) only
Legal system: Carreers are on the line with big cases, so rather than getting to the truth corruption takes over big cases
Freedom: You're free to carry weapons in town that could wipe out the entire mall. (But the government has nukes and tanks, thank god you can shoot them with an assault rifle now)
Education: Only if your parents planned ahead and can afford it, never ending cycle to keep poor people poor (I know there are grants and exceptions)
Religion: Still a significant percent following the person in the clouds.
I've never been to the US, but these are things "Swedes" (My social circle) commonly joke about when talking about the US, seeing videos, news, articles from your media online.
I do realise i might come off as quite arrogant, but this is the picture the US presents, the list from above could probably quite easily be broken down by exceptions and differences between states, It's only there to reflect back what I/we see.
The numbers are hard to compare given they're not normalized. Murder rates are commonly given as murders per year per 100K inhabitants. Usually, countries with low rates have around 0.5-1.0 (like European countries), The States has around 5, the worst rates can be found in some Latin American countries in the 20-50 range.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/kriminalita-v-cesku-loni-k...
Czech Republic: -10% murders between 2019 and 2020.
Czech Republic: -10% murders between 2019 and 2020.
Keeping in mind this was talking about 2020, I would expect the tremendous strain on hospitals to cause at least some amount of increase worldwide.
Are you suggesting that that altercations that wouldn't result in death, did result in death due to hospital overload and as such trigger the murder/homicide stat?
He is suggesting that and it's wrong. Shootings are up by an even higher amount than deaths. The implications of that are left for the reader to figure out.
>Shootings are up by an even higher amount than deaths. The implications of that are left for the reader to figure out.
The original post contained no data about shootings, and even if US shootings were also higher my statement could still be true.
The original post contained no data about shootings, and even if US shootings were also higher my statement could still be true.
Yes, the line between murder and attempted murder can be very thin. The hospitals were overtaxed last year, leading to things like health care worker fatigue which would cause an increase in deaths in all areas they are involved with.
In actuality, there never was a "tremendous strain" on hospitals as a result of covid. Quite the contrary if you care to look at the facts and not the skewed numbers used to sensationalize and fear monger.
Also, these numbers have nothing to do with hospital occupancy.
Also, these numbers have nothing to do with hospital occupancy.
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> or is this another aspect of the US's unexpectedly high violence
That's a steep drop of context. The US doesn't have abnormally high violence overall, as your blanket statement would imply. The US has a lower rate of violent crime than Europe does and that has been consistently true for 50 years.
The US has an unexpectedly high murder rate due to the mass proliferation of easy to get handguns in its inner cities. If you remove that single factor, the US murder rate drops to something comparable to Canada. It's obvious that the murder problem in the US is a handgun problem and the stats always bear that out year after year.
That's a steep drop of context. The US doesn't have abnormally high violence overall, as your blanket statement would imply. The US has a lower rate of violent crime than Europe does and that has been consistently true for 50 years.
The US has an unexpectedly high murder rate due to the mass proliferation of easy to get handguns in its inner cities. If you remove that single factor, the US murder rate drops to something comparable to Canada. It's obvious that the murder problem in the US is a handgun problem and the stats always bear that out year after year.
My usual reference, now a little old: https://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/20/america-is-a-violent-co... : http://kieranhealy.org/files/misc/assault-deaths-oecd-ts-all...
> If you remove that single factor
"If you remove the murders, the US has a low murder rate" isn't helpful.
> It's obvious that the murder problem in the US is a handgun problem and the stats always bear that out year after year
Well, yes, but this runs into the "this is constitutionally guaranteed and we refuse to even contemplate doing anything about it" problem.
But the difference is huge. In the 1980s, Detroit was more lethal than Belfast, with regular bombs going off and troops shooting civilians in the streets.
> If you remove that single factor
"If you remove the murders, the US has a low murder rate" isn't helpful.
> It's obvious that the murder problem in the US is a handgun problem and the stats always bear that out year after year
Well, yes, but this runs into the "this is constitutionally guaranteed and we refuse to even contemplate doing anything about it" problem.
But the difference is huge. In the 1980s, Detroit was more lethal than Belfast, with regular bombs going off and troops shooting civilians in the streets.
If you remove cities like Detroit from US numbers, it's as safe as the Czech Republic and other Western countries. We don't have a gun violence problem, we have a dangerous cities problem. Poor management of inner city criminals.
But is US minus Detroit safer than Cz minus Prague, or UK minus London and Manchester? Most murder happens in cities. You can't just handwave the problem away and say it's not really America.
The US system of policing seems to be both repressive and ineffective.
The US system of policing seems to be both repressive and ineffective.
> The US has a lower rate of violent crime than Europe does and that has been consistently true for 50 years.
For a very specific definition of violent crime, I suppose. In the real world, homicide rates are not even close, regardless of any hand waving about guns. Same for rapes.
Crime rates are comparable if you put together robberies, assaults, murders, rapes and jaywalking, it does not mean that the rates of violent crimes are similar.
For a very specific definition of violent crime, I suppose. In the real world, homicide rates are not even close, regardless of any hand waving about guns. Same for rapes.
Crime rates are comparable if you put together robberies, assaults, murders, rapes and jaywalking, it does not mean that the rates of violent crimes are similar.
You're wrong: https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/non-economic-data/worlds-s...
Heck, Romania is 10 times poorer than the US and it's still safer. And it's not even the safest country in Europe.
Heck, Romania is 10 times poorer than the US and it's still safer. And it's not even the safest country in Europe.
True for me. I enjoy walking in the evening and late at night. The only unpleasant encounter I've ever had in Romania was with a bear not a person. Quietly backtracking I got away with it.
Without any data or published results your comment provides nothing to back its claims.
This may provide some insight: https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...
(The US seems to be ahead of most european countries.)
(The US seems to be ahead of most european countries.)
thanks for the link which confirms "ahead of" as in "more crime"
Funny, it almost sounds like you're blaming your unwillingness to educate yourself on the OP. In a data-free post no less.
That’s not how logic works, though. If you’re going to make flippant claims, you have to back them up if you want to be taken seriously.
No, your post clearly lacks cites for your claims because you expect me to go look them up on my own. By your logic that's not logic.
The OPs claims were not flippant and are easy to verify. Erhk was being lazy and trying to pin that laziness on the OP. It's the very behavior LMGTFY was invented to expose.
Demanding citations for easily checked facts is one of the primary signs of bad-faith arguing.
The OPs claims were not flippant and are easy to verify. Erhk was being lazy and trying to pin that laziness on the OP. It's the very behavior LMGTFY was invented to expose.
Demanding citations for easily checked facts is one of the primary signs of bad-faith arguing.
I am not even arguing, as there is nothing to argue against. Get numbers and sources and then we can discuss.
> Demanding citations for easily checked facts is one of the primary signs of bad-faith arguing.
Not providing facts and then expecting people to do it for you is arguing in bad faith. Particularly when it’s trivial to find sources telling that the fact-free opinion is in fact wrong.
> Demanding citations for easily checked facts is one of the primary signs of bad-faith arguing.
Not providing facts and then expecting people to do it for you is arguing in bad faith. Particularly when it’s trivial to find sources telling that the fact-free opinion is in fact wrong.
While I can't speak for Europe as a whole, I do recall that violent crime comparisons twixt the US and the UK fall afoul of not measuring the same crimes.
The definition of "violent crime" in the UK covers much more than it does in the US.
Here's an old piece about it: https://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/01/12/fact-checki...
The definition of "violent crime" in the UK covers much more than it does in the US.
Here's an old piece about it: https://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/01/12/fact-checki...
I once visited Chicago, and I had to cross the street when I saw a group of 5 handguns looking at me menacingly.
Another predictable outcome of taking funding away from the police.
Based on the comments it looks like we’re at the denial phase. Maybe another year or two until we wise up and restore the budgets.
Based on the comments it looks like we’re at the denial phase. Maybe another year or two until we wise up and restore the budgets.
well most murder is of people you know, and people have been spending a lot of time with people they know.
There has been a lot of concern about how domestic violence may be worsened by not being able to go outside.
The causes are likely many issues interacting in a complex manner. That said, yes, obviously locking people in a house with the person most likely to murder them, while simultaneously putting enormous financial strain on that household, is very likely a contributing factor. I don't think anyone is arguing that point.
If this was the cause then murder in, say, the UK would also rise and it hasn't.
maybe it's easier to kill someone when you get mad at them in the U.S than in other countries because guns?
Or, possibly police are hesitant to do their work, and criminals are feeling emboldened.
This hypothesis is called the Ferguson effect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_effect#:~:text=The%....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_effect#:~:text=The%....
You can imagine that people in Ferguson might be unwilling to report petty crime until the police can’t do much about it as the punishment for stealing a low value item can be summary execution and you might not want that for the kid down the street who has gone off the rails a bit. So that probably affects the clear up rate.
Such absurd hyperbole.
Don’t physically fight with police, and you’ll be fine. Simple as that.
Don’t physically fight with police, and you’ll be fine. Simple as that.
There are countless cases of police (especially in the US) executing entirely compliant and peaceful people.
Even more absurd hyperbole. Countless? Executing? So many that it is impossible to count?
Link me some examples. There are so many that it cannot be counted, and so surely it should be easy for you to send me a dozen examples.
Link me some examples. There are so many that it cannot be counted, and so surely it should be easy for you to send me a dozen examples.
Countless is also entirely hyperbolic. Approximately 1000 people were killed by police in 2019, and the vast majority were violently resisting.
Unlikely. Police mostly deal with consequences, they can’t stop everyone from doing what they have intended to do. And why would police suddenly become hesitant?
It is more likely that it is caused by pandemic situation where many people have lost jobs and homes. Also social conditions changed. All of that could attribute to agressive and reckless behaviour.
It is more likely that it is caused by pandemic situation where many people have lost jobs and homes. Also social conditions changed. All of that could attribute to agressive and reckless behaviour.
D cities +36.2%
R cities +35.6%
How in any way is this relevant? To anything? It's seeing this sort of spiked dialogue that just reinforces my belief that the US is on a downward spiral of naval-gazing self-destruction. One would hope the US had grown up by now. Gotten past the terrible teens. Sadly it hasn't.
How in any way is this relevant? To anything? It's seeing this sort of spiked dialogue that just reinforces my belief that the US is on a downward spiral of naval-gazing self-destruction. One would hope the US had grown up by now. Gotten past the terrible teens. Sadly it hasn't.
It helps avoid the knee-jerk reaction of blaming it on the other side. You might think we don't need that stat because we're above it, but sadly we're not..
It feels like the US has less moderates every year. I don't have any data to back that up, just how it feels.
It feels like the US has less moderates every year. I don't have any data to back that up, just how it feels.
Your intuition is correct. This site [1] includes graphs covering political values of Americans from 1994 to 2017, and it's very clear that politics is much more polarized than in the past.
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/political-...
[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/interactives/political-...
Just scroll to the bottom of this thread to see this in action.
As an outsider to America, it looks like there's a moderate center-right party, and a batshitinsane far-right crazy party, and logically very few people between them, because either you believe obviously stupid delusional claims, or you don't.
Three-quarters of one side believe that the last election was stolen, despite the huge amount of evidence to the contrary. Very many of them believe that the climate emergency is a Chinese hoax, that Obama is a Muslim from Kenya, that his wife is trans.
Why would there be any middle ground now, when one side has taken leave of their senses?
Three-quarters of one side believe that the last election was stolen, despite the huge amount of evidence to the contrary. Very many of them believe that the climate emergency is a Chinese hoax, that Obama is a Muslim from Kenya, that his wife is trans.
Why would there be any middle ground now, when one side has taken leave of their senses?
It's gotten so bad that if you criticize one side you're assumed to be a hardcore proponent of the other.
Even worse! It's gotten so bad that if you point to an observation of the objective reality, you're assumed to be criticizing some side.
Can't say or do anything without someone wondering whether you have "an agenda".
Can't say or do anything without someone wondering whether you have "an agenda".
>How in any way is this relevant?
It's not.
Furthermore, city boundaries are often gerrymandered to either turn their suburbs blue or be turned red by their suburbs so. Some cities absorb their suburbs, some don't. Then on top of that you've got moderate D's who can pass as an R if they shut their mouths on certain topics running on the R ticket because that's the only way to challenge the incumbent. So not only is the distinction needlessly divisive but it's such a high noise metric it's not useful for anything ever anyway.
It's not.
Furthermore, city boundaries are often gerrymandered to either turn their suburbs blue or be turned red by their suburbs so. Some cities absorb their suburbs, some don't. Then on top of that you've got moderate D's who can pass as an R if they shut their mouths on certain topics running on the R ticket because that's the only way to challenge the incumbent. So not only is the distinction needlessly divisive but it's such a high noise metric it's not useful for anything ever anyway.
Data-driven everything in tech but when it's about putting a number on society it's suddenly irrelevant?
The right question to ask is why and the next what to do about it if this trend is not desirable.
The right question to ask is why and the next what to do about it if this trend is not desirable.
trying to understand what determines which city is aligned with each party? Is it strictly who the mayor is, city council, or both?
Plus the real issue is not percentage that the rate went up but how many people does that actually mean? Going up in Chicago is going to greatly dwarf most other cities and I am not sure they are very large Republican governed cities.
In effect, they are using statistics to attempt to make the issue seem less dire than it really is. The number of deaths is ridiculous so they don't want that number out there.
Plus the real issue is not percentage that the rate went up but how many people does that actually mean? Going up in Chicago is going to greatly dwarf most other cities and I am not sure they are very large Republican governed cities.
In effect, they are using statistics to attempt to make the issue seem less dire than it really is. The number of deaths is ridiculous so they don't want that number out there.
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Just numbers are meaningless.
Without the location's demographics you can't conclude nothing. Or maybe that's the point.
Without the location's demographics you can't conclude nothing. Or maybe that's the point.
What demographics are you interested in, and to what end?
Race, age, gender, social-economic status (from yearly wages to educational accomplishment, etc).
How else can you tackle the causes of crime if all you have is a number and don't know who exactly is committing them?
How else can you tackle the causes of crime if all you have is a number and don't know who exactly is committing them?
You have to read Steve Sailer to understand why this is, but you can't do that and admit it in polite company, even though everybody else has too.
Well according to Wikipedia he's a white supremacist. So maybe there's a good reason why people don't want to associate with him in good company.
That's a gross mischaracterization. He's an IQ and conscientiousness supremacist, which has the side effect of looking like white supremacy.
But nobody's going to edit Wikipedia to characterize him as an "East Asian/Ashkenazi Jewish/Brahmin Hindu Supremacist", which would still be wrong, but at least be far more accurate.
But nobody's going to edit Wikipedia to characterize him as an "East Asian/Ashkenazi Jewish/Brahmin Hindu Supremacist", which would still be wrong, but at least be far more accurate.
It doesn't just look like white supremacy, it has the same effects and acts as a convenient cover for actual white supremacy. The difference is really splitting hairs in my opinion.
Inequality is likely a major cause of crime as it creates more pressure/trauma on the poor.
A lot of people think that criminals are fundamentally different from them. More aggressive, less empathetic, etc... I'm pretty sure that essentially anyone can become a criminal. It's just a matter of how much trauma each person can take.
Stress and trauma are very bad for the brain.
A lot of people think that criminals are fundamentally different from them. More aggressive, less empathetic, etc... I'm pretty sure that essentially anyone can become a criminal. It's just a matter of how much trauma each person can take.
Stress and trauma are very bad for the brain.