Why Arent We Hearing About Crime Anymore?
During the nations election campaigns last summer and fall, we saw endless images in Republican campaign videos of marauding , predominantly black, violent criminals terrorizing the good people of "fill-in-the-blank" city or town. I think its safe to say these scare the shit out of the voter tactics were shown hundreds of thousands of times by the nations tv stations and seen by tens of millions of Americans. We were led to believe that the nation's big cities were literal hell holes where decent white people couldnt walk the street (unless they were packing heat) for fear of being terrorized by dark skinned animals.
Whether these commercials worked out or not to help elect right wing candidates is unknown by me.
We can notice though, that now when the election is over and the ads are gone , we hear very little of the urgency or the sense of emergency this all communicated back in the summer. There is so little talk of crime in the conservative media nowadays, certainly compared to what it was just a few months ago, one couldnt be blamed for assuming all the criminals had a come to Jesus moment and reformed.
Of course, the reality is the crime rate hasnt changed, the need for the right wing politicians to bitch about it has. These guys dont give a damn if the people in the south side Chicago black neighborhoods suffer higher crime rates than the nearly all white north side neighborhoods do, they simply wanted to get votes. Same across the country.
The Republican right has bigger fish to fry anyway, and are expected to spend their two year window in power in the House to conduct dozens of investigations into Democratic politicians and Dr. Fauci.
Oh, if you ask a Republican elected official about crime they will still answer with the same accusations of defunding police and "woke" prosecutors, they just dont have the same energy for it in December that they had in October.
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It's still happening, with the same frequency, in the usual places, like Chicago and other big cities.
You might be hearing less about it because the leftist press doesn't seem to be the least bit concerned about it....
and also the fact that no political ads are running now!
It could be because no one gives a shit about Democrat run bastions of stupidity any more. You have the government you deserve in those areas. Now stay the hell away from the rest of us!
Who says we aren't? Crime isn't a Democrat/Republican issue; it's a national safety issue, and trying to politicize it, as this article does, is dangerous to all Americans.
One example... Even left/right Chicago media are outraged over Lightfoot's censoring. Why is she hiding crime from the media and Chicago's residents?
On the other hand, MSM rarely report on the southern border illegal alien invasion and the criminal/terrorists/illegal drugs, the Biden laptop criminality, and the Twitter Files censorship ... all of which involve crimes of various levels.
I know someone who listened to a police scanner a lot. Made them paranoid about the level of safety in their own neighborhood, which is one of the safest in the city.
Citizens dont need to listen in on police calls.
That comment is a perfect example of why Lightfoot is wrong to censor the media and other civilians. Maybe your friend had very good reasons that you don't know about.
“Crime isn't a Democrat/Republican issue; it's a national safety issue, and trying to politicize it, as this article does, is dangerous to all Americans.”
Substitute the proliferation of guns with crime and this comment would be equally welcome in any discussion.
They are simultaneously intertwined and yet somehow separated by the politicization you decry here, but otherwise support. This bifurcation is the real problem, and one we seem content to live with as we will at any moment, and it is inevitable, be diminished to offering another round of meaningless thoughts and prayers as another round is fired.
Say what you will, but Democrats have a long legacy of being soft on crime and overly critical of law enforcement.
“…soft on crime…”
Gun violence is a real thing. Anyone who has the gumption to face that reality should be applauded…at the very least in acknowledging the problem, despite the worst attempts to diffuse it.
And republicans have a long legacy of committing crimes, and being over critical of law enforcement investigating those crimes.
GOP Admins Had 38 Times More Criminal Convictions Than Democrats, 1961-2016
There have been 317 criminal indictments under three recent Republican presidents and only three indictments under three recent Democratic presidents.
"Recent administrations with the MOST criminal indictments:
Trump (Republican) — 215
Nixon (Republican) — 76
Reagan (Republican) — 26
"Recent administrations with the LEAST criminal indictments:
Obama (Democrat) — 0
Carter (Democrat) — 1
Clinton (Democrat) — 2
Why Arent We Hearing About Crime Anymore?
Must not be looking very hard , I have MSN as my home page on the computer , and everyday , its the majority of whats being reported .
Not hearing about crime because the bulk of it is being committed by pro-Putin GOP sympathizers.