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30 months of great news on falling crime https://www.slowboring.com/p/30-months-of-great-news-on-falling -
30 months of great news on falling crime https://www.slowboring.com/p/30-months-of-great-news-on-fallingIn various videos it was unsettling to see western residents in Shezen, China discussing the almost complete absence of street crime (apparently a big change from previous decades) and drop being correlated with the installation of ubiquitous AI-driven camera surveillance.
Assuming their perception is correct would I prefer that? Not sure...
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30 months of great news on falling crime https://www.slowboring.com/p/30-months-of-great-news-on-fallingSadly I expect the current US administration to suppress the publication of official crime statistics. People's perception of crime and risk is normally significantly higher than the actuality and this comes out in the stats. Probably through the simple expedient of shutting down the relevent departments.
For any authoritarian regime having your population fearful and demanding more police is a win, so ... suppress the stats.
