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Things are probably much worse. Advancement in medical science since the 1960s have ensured that recovery is possible from wounds that, previously, would have been fatal.
https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/murder-as-measuring-stick
The conclusion is that in both western Europe and the USA, the mid 20th Century was far safer than today, despite being younger, poorer, thinner, and having far worse forensics.
There is no good reason why the west should not be able to achieve Japanese levels of societal safety. All it would require is a criminal justice system as effective as it was two generations ago.
Leniency towards juvenile offenders and female perpetrators isn’t going in the right direction. Committing crimes early is a predictor of committing more severe crimes later. Having a ‘pussy pass’ allows some to believe that they can literally get away with murder. Shabana Mahmood wishes to close female prisons, because of an ‘overcrowding crisis’. Why not build more female prisons, instead?
The effect of mass immigration should be debated.
The article would make good reading for Nigel Farage if he’s serious about getting tough on crime.
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I notice that DC is 43% Black and African American. The community that is most affected by “fatherlessness” in the USA. Or at least that where the data is clearest. I can’t help thinking that this is reflected in the crime statistics. A similar pattern is developing in the “Afro/ Caribbean” population here, majority “illegitimate” births, high level of mother led “single parent” families. This is not to single out race as such, because the same is seen in poor white “sink estates”, but it is clearest because of the ease of data collection and analysis for smaller and more geographically concentrated populations.
The key is the breakdown of the family and absence of steady male role models. In a terrible way these communities are pioneering the feminist dream of female led societies with men very much on the periphery. In this country, the UK, it is understood that the result is young men joining “gangs” and the current problems we have with “knife crime”. There is a lot of talk about “male role models” but as yet little engagement with the idea of why there are “man deserts” in which conscious (and expensive) schemes are needed to recruit and fund these “role models”.
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And we were warned “There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future – that community asks for and gets chaos.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the 1960s
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