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Report finds history repeating in coverage of calls for crime crackdown (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This article somewhat misses the point about why people are so concerned about crime, in my view. We have recently had a number of high profile, very public, violent crimes in the last few months. Dairy robberies, ram raids, shootings in the middle of the CBD, motorists being beaten by dirt bikers.

It's honestly unhelpful and insensitive to say "statistically speaking" when people are seeing this happen all around them.

The Wellington CBD, for example, is definitely less safe than a few years ago, with people getting aggressive with you for no reason. We also had a violent robbery of a jeweller's shop quite recently as well.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But people are not "seeing this happen all around them", that's the point of the article you linked.

People are largely seeing it blasted to their eyeballs via the media that makes it feel like its everywhere, even when crime rates are in a decades long decline.

Personally I find these cyclical crime panics unhelpful and insensitive because theyre used by cynical politicians to whip up fear, and push 'tough on crime' that don't make us safer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

As per the story I linked to in response to another commenter, violent crime is actually on the rise.