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How has crime been going down despite material conditions getting worse? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As we all know here, material conditions have progressively been getting worse and worse. Based on pretty much all political theory, crime rates should also be going up with worse material conditions. But they haven't, in fact, crime rates have been going consistently down for the past 30 or so years. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

By who's estimation? I remember a podcast I used to like, reply all, pretty lib looking back on it, and not even getting into all the shit that went down since then. But there were some parts of the episode 'the crime machine' that really really stuck with me. Chief among them was about how fake police crime statistics are. Material conditions are always getting worse, but somehow, someway, crime is always falling. I can't remember the exact quote, but there was a point were the main subject of the episode was trying to explain 'crime goes down, arrests go down' and was answered with 'crime goes down, arrests go up'. Crime has not been falling and falling, never once deviating. What is considered a crime, how it is reported, who reports it, all of this makes a difference in tracking. Unless you live in an AES country, you'll never know the truth about the actual, statistical, state of crime.

If you remember anything, remember this: "any police department that tells you crime has, without deviation, been falling for 30 years, they are compeletely full of shit"

don't take their words at face value