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States that didn't change their drug policies are also experiencing an opioid crisis.
Yeah, much has been written in the past week or two about how Oregon is misguided and it’s a knee jerk reaction. Similar to how a (relatively) small spike in violent crime recently has caused many states to introduce harsh penalties. Our crime rates are nothing like in the 80s anyway
I’m pretty sure white-collar crimes have gone up since the 80s 😉
Which is pretty impressive since the 80s were very much KNOWN for yuppies, who of course caused an explosion in white collar crime compared to before.
I think the problem is we kept making movies out of it, showing how glamorous the lifestyle was. Crime seems like a lot of fun.
To be fair, some crimes ARE hella fun and a lot less harmful than conning people or the government out of money 😁
In some places, butt sex and weed are illegal… can you imagine?
Yes, I'm very skilled at imagining butt sex 😛
The availability heuristic at work. Media attention (including social media) draw attention to more extreme examples of crime, and people then perceive these events as being more likely because they are more readily accessible to the mind.
Not just that, but the entire circuit of right wing talk radio really grew in the past couple decades. It’s a lot of fear mongering