Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn't increased. But the perception of a crime wave still colors U.S. politics.
  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    There was a time mass shootings were done almost entirely by white kids. The definition includes a lot of gang shootings now.

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      8 months ago

      Do you understand how racist that sort of comment comes across as? You probably don’t mean it like that, but you know there are white gangs too.

      • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 months ago

        I’m not going to put an essay about historical racism or housing policies in a comment about gun violence. Might as well have called me out for saying mass shooters (in the colloquial sense) are white. I can’t change reality - they statistically are white.