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If people aren't panicked, they wouldn't elect panic-pandering politicians, so there must always be a panic — crime, drugs, commies, libruls, etc.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Curious: are they not correlated?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

I mean does it matter? D or R does it have an impact on crime?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Hahaha, 9/10 of the top 10 places with the highest murder rates are red. Try again though (and I don't even like defending dems, I'm a leftist...)

Edit: goes to show that police are innefective and more spending =/= less crime, moreover, a more policed state is a more paranoid, divided, and racialized state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I asked a question