London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime

https://lemmy.world/post/42671451

Fear mongering right wing media machine goes brrrrrr

Same thing in Germany with crime in general constantly dropping while anti immigration sentiment keeps rising under the excuse of “violent immigrants”

US too, crime has been dropping for decades but we apparently need a Gestapo force to go after criminal gangs

The curious thing about US crime statistics is that we only count crimes against the state. We never count crimes committed by the state.

I would argue that US Crime has been sharply on the rise, from within the organs of the government itself.

True but I didn’t want to get into the nitty gritty and just comment on the conservative “crime in the streets!!” fantasy