Mildly Infuriating

Fear mongering right wing media machine goes brrrrrr

Same thing in Germany with crime in general constantly dropping while anti immigration sentiment keeps rising under the excuse of "violent immigrants"

Because I don't understand correlation vs causation, I can only conclude that the monetization of X caused a steep decline in knife violence

I'm gonna keep ringing this bell until people sit down and reread chicken little

The foxes want you to believe the sky is falling.

They want you panicked, so they can control you.

Their intent is to devour you.

The correct reaction is to not listen to them.

Nothing on X is organically viral now. Elon is the ultimate powertripping admin, and he will shape his website however he wants

Unfortunately, this is only about hospitalisations. Crimes involving knives/sharp objects have been going steady, with a slight increase last years, from what I can see, mostly focused around rapes :( Source (uk parliament, confirming numbers about hospitalisations): https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04304/SN04304.pdf

Knife crime in sharp decline

Hey Brits.

USA hostage here.

You are presently rolling your eyes at this manufactured outrage, hoping it will hurry up and just pass by already so people can get on with their lives, right?

We've been there. It's not going to stop, it's going to get worse. And worse.

This fascist, racist infection will turn into an even worse cancer over there because you have more than one nation around you with different looking and different sounding people who are going to start feeling more and more displacement from climate and geopolitics and who be seeking safety and survival.

You already have a surveillance state that beats us, you are losing rights and freedoms every day. You had the strongest alliances in the world, but between the Brexit fiasco and now the US's oligarchs sabotaging NATO, you are losing your strongest source of capital, which was unity and international community strength. If Ukraine falls, you will have Russia on your doorstep controlling your gas and food.

You need to do what we failed to do early enough, which is reinforce local and domestic communities and see the threat for what it is, an active force of destruction that works in slow-motion and attacks you in your weak points, your forums and subreddits and your social media, your television stations and your news agencies.

You are in so much danger of escalating chaos it's going to make the USA look sane and balanced.

2/3 of murders in Minneapolis MN were committed my ICE agents this year. They say they want to make us safer.

I have frequently said, I have never been helped or protected by law enforcement. I have needed their help, and received shrugs. Overall, the world is a lot safer than government would have you believe, and they only want to protect capital anyway.

And compare that to the rise of right wing ownership of media.

I always find it interesting when you're only provided a portion of the data in a chart, as this shows "hospital Admissions" and not total incidents involving a knife.

If you look at other reports on the issue it seems like incidents involving a knife are still high (and don't follow the trend from the graph) even though hospital Admissions and deaths are down - Source.

That could mean that reporting is up while crime is down, or could mean that less incidents are ending violently, but it's not as clear a picture as the initial graph indicates.

Note: the source is for the UK in general, but other London based reports show similar. I chose that article because they seem fairly trustworthy.

What's mildly infuriating is that the viral content graph doesn't show the years where knife crime actually peaked.

Sources: X

Ok so lies, gotcha.

Same as here in the states. Rural people happily eat up that the city is unsafe, and they happily believe they are so much smarter than everyone else for not living in the city and being murdered every other day.

Man, I have this debate quite often - usually about "the situation in Sweeden". Any links available to the article, so I can share with my concerned friends?

Knives have been getting duller? :P

Heh, "sharp" decline.

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Sharp Decline

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You could make this graph about pretty much any crime-news coverage over the last 40 years. "If It Bleeds Then It Leads" has become western media orthodoxy.

the isnt even a correlation in that graph. e.g. if you look that crime peak in 2023, there is absolutely no correlating peak or drop in the twitter posts.

Same is true in America. If immigration is up and immigrants cause crime, why is crime down?

Almost as if it's willful delusion to push a narrative. A group of people covering their eyes and ears and lying through their teeth to radicalize people to their sick cause.

Does the drop in knife crime just happen to coincide with when BJ stopped being mayor?

This is how crime reporting in the US works too. There isn't a connection really between crime rates and news reporting, the news media broadly choose to focus on certain types of crimes because they serve the interests of their owners and/or are popular with their audiences. There's decades of polling showing Americans largely have never had any idea what the actual risks are of crime.