Almost 80 percent of Americans, and 92 percent of Republicans, think crime has gone up. It actually fell in 2023. An expert blames a familiar culprit for the mistaken impression.
Idk if it’s that deep, negative news just sell better. It’s the same problem everywhere else, including countries where police brutality is a non-issue.
It is. How else do you think they managed to get a fascist cop the DEMOCRAT nominee for mayor in New York where the population tends to be more left than most of the country AND distrusts cops more than the high average of the nation.
The New York Times, the NY Compost and most smaller legacy NY media outlets ran a gigantic pro-cop fearmongering campaign, convincing voters that Eric Adams was the only one who could save them from a gigantic rise in crime that wasn’t actually happening.
People and media outlets don’t have to conspire in order to act in their own self interest. Scaremongering sells papers and cops grant access in return for positive coverage. The DNC rely on cop “unions” for votes and campaign contributions aka legal bribes.
That’s not a conspiracy, that’s just how yellow journalism, cronyism and an inherently corrupt political system work 🤷
I’m normally not one to raise conspiracy theories, but this probably isn’t one of them.
Historically, this is true with regards to human civilization. This isn’t the first time authoritarians use tactics like keeping the population afraid of some boogyman so they can push police state agendas.
Heck, other countries are doing the same thing right this minute.
It’s not unreasonable to assume that in a country as diverse and often confused and corrupt like we have in a lot of areas, would be susceptible to the same things.
Assuming we’re immune to that level of influence is going on the wrong direction. We’re not even immune to fringe extremist groups trying to overthrow our government. Even if they did it poorly, the attempt was made.
Ten years ago, nobody thought anything like that could ever happen here.
Idk if it’s that deep, negative news just sell better. It’s the same problem everywhere else, including countries where police brutality is a non-issue.
It is. How else do you think they managed to get a fascist cop the DEMOCRAT nominee for mayor in New York where the population tends to be more left than most of the country AND distrusts cops more than the high average of the nation.
The New York Times, the NY Compost and most smaller legacy NY media outlets ran a gigantic pro-cop fearmongering campaign, convincing voters that Eric Adams was the only one who could save them from a gigantic rise in crime that wasn’t actually happening.
Grand conspiracies are rarely the best explanation for anything
Not all conspiracies require all parties to keep secrets. A lot of this stuff is done right out in the open.
People and media outlets don’t have to conspire in order to act in their own self interest. Scaremongering sells papers and cops grant access in return for positive coverage. The DNC rely on cop “unions” for votes and campaign contributions aka legal bribes.
That’s not a conspiracy, that’s just how yellow journalism, cronyism and an inherently corrupt political system work 🤷
Or maybe the media just fearmonger because that makes them the most money. People tend to click on negative news much more often than positive.
That’s what I just said. Try re-reading the part about yellow journalism.
I’m normally not one to raise conspiracy theories, but this probably isn’t one of them.
Historically, this is true with regards to human civilization. This isn’t the first time authoritarians use tactics like keeping the population afraid of some boogyman so they can push police state agendas.
Heck, other countries are doing the same thing right this minute.
It’s not unreasonable to assume that in a country as diverse and often confused and corrupt like we have in a lot of areas, would be susceptible to the same things.
Assuming we’re immune to that level of influence is going on the wrong direction. We’re not even immune to fringe extremist groups trying to overthrow our government. Even if they did it poorly, the attempt was made.
Ten years ago, nobody thought anything like that could ever happen here.