[Yuki Maru Hoshi]

Gun homicides steady after decline in ’90s; suicide rate edges up
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...rate-edges-up/

We’ve had a massive decline in gun violence in the United States. Here’s why.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...tes-heres-why/



I think too many people in this section buy too much into the media narrative(s). Remember that they're trying to sell their story for ratings. You'll never be close to any version of the truth this way.

1. More police officers on the beat

Additional manpower helps police departments respond to and prevent violence. In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed a major crime bill that set aside enough federal funding for law enforcement agencies nationally to add 100,000 officers, though the ranks of the country's police forces had already been expanding as local governments dedicated more resources to their departments to control increasing rates of crime.

In New York City, the recruitment of more officers was a crucial reason that the decline in crime was larger and more sustained than in other cities, according to Franklin Zimring, a criminologist at the University of California at Berkeley. The economist Steven Levitt estimates that larger police forces reduced crime by 5 percent to 6 percent. Gun violence, presumably, declined along with crime in general.

Depending on how you shake it, this can have a bad or good effect on the African American demographics. On one hand, they are safer, on another... there's more chances for **** to go awry when the policing is based on pro-efficiency. The African American community is anti-police, pro-racial paranoia... so obviously there is going to be more culture clash there. That's not really a full blown narrative as much as it's simply a matter of statistics. Though I believe there is an issue with racial profiling with regards to policing that needs to be corrected/improved upon. Anyway, we're living in the new rage culture that feeds off faux narratives... so hard to see where the truth and the lies begin, even for me who is in a law enforcement family. I ask my husband a lot of questions, and I'm probably critical at times, but I'm curious where this line begins and ends... where exactly the statistics stop and the truth unfolds. Unfortunately it appears to be much greyer than some people prefer.

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

What i find "interesting" is that America is very vocal at criticising other country's and their regimes for human rights issues and lack of respect for human life. Yet here we are, day after day, where people are killed because they may be a threat. No proof, no evidence. Shoot first and ask the questions later.

Its not about individual cases of shooting's and their circumstances. The American regime does not respect and value human life or respect the role of justice backed by fair trial. It is deplorable.

I find that funny considering most of our media doesn't usually acknowledge the rest of the world exists until a terror story is involved or it's about amazing things we're doing (like blowing that **** up). We are very self-absorbed and yet so self-hating in this respect... we're too busy tearing our own culture to pieces in the local media to have time to disseminate someone elses failings. People bring up China and the middle east, but it's just a distraction. We love our culture and politics so much, we are taking a big knife to it and giving it the slow painful death it deserves on social media. Mainstream media is no different and to find the blame for it, well, it's in our mainstream culture... it all preaches self-hate... hate your own skin, hate your own politics, hate your own history, hate this, hate that... don't like that ethnic music? Water it down. Add autotune... so yeah... it's pro-comfort zone, not pro-self-awarenesss... so yeah beat it all dead with a big stick. The media runs in like vermin to pick up after the scraps and sensationalizes the process of it all.

Meanwhile, our national identity is becoming very unclear (if it were relative to the media)... much less our international one. We're in the midst of our own culture war right now and our apparent reflection in the international community right now is the least of our concerns. The only people who care are some portions of the extreme right which bathe daily in the fuels of ethnocentrism and extreme nationalism.

P.S. I have no idea why African Americans care about being unanimously heralded in our wonderful paradise called mainstream anything that celebrates mediocrity. It's all mediocre watered down crap. Anything you put in that is culturally rich is stripped of it's core. Everybody hates it, we just haven't acknowledged it yet. Even white people. Want to succeed? Pro tip... Be a leader. Not a follower. The majority voice, majority anything is dwindling and pretty soon there will be no majority... and it's never been more fair game. Well, unless you're contending with your own movements that seek to self-victimize your group(s)... it's ok the Hispanics are growing in numbers and pretty soon the demographic will be so mixed it won't matter anyway. There are very few "white communities"/homogenous cultures in America anymore... maybe in a high priced subdivision or if you're in the boonies or among the rich and elite (which I often would argue points to a class issue, not a race war)... but go to most metro/high density communities... it's very well mixed, which is a great thing. My city is minority majority so this focus on whites this and that is null and void... we're already living the new mixed multi-voiced America. And I'm digging it.

As far as the US diplomatic policies with regards to working other regions... I wholeheartedly agree... I think it's time we get the hell out and just let whatever happen happen... they don't need us right? ... uhhh... wait no, that's a bad idea.