A must read!

There is so much more going on in the world betond social media clickbait outrage.

"This gap, between the world as it is and how we’re told to see it, comes down to a choice about what we do with our attention."

https://open.substack.com/pub/fixthenews/p/the-telemetry

#Environment #Energy #Solar #Trachoma #Conservatiob #HighSeasTreaty #MediaBias #MurderRate

The Telemetry

All the news the headlines missed in 2025.

Fix The News

What #AlternativeUniverse does this fucking #OrangeMango live on???

Via #MediaITE @ 8:07pm on Oct 10, 2025

“We want to save #Chicago,” said #Trump. “They had 4,000 people murdered over a very short period of time.” Notably, city data indicates that Chicago’s #MurderRate has dropped sharply over the past few years — nearly 50% lower than it was in 2021. As of 2025, the city has recorded 331 #homicides, compared to 460 at this time last year.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-claims-4000-people-murdered-in-chicago-over-a-very-short-period-of-time/

Trump Claims ‘4,000 People Murdered’ in Chicago ‘Over A Very Short Period of Time’

President Donald Trump claimed that there were "4,000 people murdered" in Chicago over "a very short period of time" during a Friday appearance in front of reporters in the Oval Office. Responding to a question about his feelings on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers (ICE) "making targeted arrests at courthouses in New York City and

Mediaite

Homicide databases report up to a 20% drop in murder rates in early 2025.

Crime analyst Jeff Asher notes this could lead to the lowest murder rate since the 1960s.

Is it achievable? It’s plausible! #MurderRate #DataAnalysis

The Graphs and Statistics are fascinating in this UN Report. It might provide good exercises for a data or statistcs class: redesign the pie charts, find the original figures and design tables... Just learn from it.. It's a shame the text was garbled when I tried to copy direct from the .pdf..
https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/gsh/2023/Global_study_on_homicide_2023_web.pdf
#HomicideRates #MurderRate #StatisticsClass #LearningStatistics #UncertaintyGraphs #UncertaintyVisualization
> .. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Study on Homicide 2023, 458,000 people were victims of homicide in 2021—more than five times as many as were killed in armed conflicts during the same period... many socioeconomic factors can drive #HomicideRates These factors include gender stereotypes, social inequality, unemployment, political instability, firearms possession (just over half of all homicides are committed via firearms)
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/murder-rate-by-country
#MurderRate
Murder Rate by Country 2025

Interesting Statistics!

- Murder Rate Down
- Manufacturing Up
- Retirees doing well
- 8.5% Homes worth over $1M

#murder #murderrate #manufacturing #retirement #RealEstate #homecost #brucemehlman
https://brucemehlman.substack.com/p/six-chart-sunday-32-good-news

Six-Chart Sunday (#32) – Just the Good News

6 Infographics from the week + 1 Video (Unite America's Nick Troiano)

Bruce Mehlman's Age of Disruption
Crime in 2023: Murder Plummeted, Violent and Property Crime Likely Fell Nationally

These trends stand in sharp contrast with polling showing 3 in 4 Americans think crime rose this year.

Jeff-alytics

So sad for Republicans… #GOPLosers #MurderRate

Murder Rate Plummets Across the US

New York Times: “Detroit is on track to record the fewest murders since the 1960s. In Philadelphia, where there were more murders in 2021 than in any year on record, the number of homicides this year has fallen more than 20 percent from last year. And in Los Angeles, the number of shooting victims this year is down more than 200 from two years ago.”