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Apropos of nothing...

I was just reading some politically charged comments on the Brian Robinson thread but decided it wasn’t the right place to respond, so I’m responding in this thread.

First, any violent crime is terrible and should not be tolerated. That being said, there were many comments in the thread about how violence in DC has spiraled out of control. It needs to be pointed out that violent crime in Washington, D.C. is currently—and across the board—nearly a third of what it was 30 years ago. By across the board, I mean murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, and vehicle theft. I lot of people simply won’t believe that, but that’s because they choose belief over knowledge.

Again, violent crime no matter the frequency is terrible. And it is unfortunate that there has been an uptick in recent years, but it’s important to keep in perspective that even with the recent increase, violent crime rates are still lower than what anyone would have thought was imaginable a generation ago. Our society as a whole has become substantially less violent, that’s from coast to coast, and north to south. And the attempts to correlate crime with liberal policy is just silly. Consider the states with the 7th highest murder rates in 2021: Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Missouri, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee. Those are not exactly bastions for progressive social justice policy.

The sky isn’t falling, the apocalypse isn’t nigh. Relax.