Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s
An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.
But what about all those violent immigrants raping everything in sight and causing America to be a wasteland of death and destruction that i kept hearing about?
Its less common than the native-born
Fox's "crimes of immigrants" regular feature is the modern equivalent of the Nazi reports about crimes of Jews
How crime is covered in America
In 2020, with the onset of the pandemic, murders spiked in the United States. When the FBI released its 2020 crime report on September 27, 2021, it was front-page news in the New York Times the next day. The story highlighted that it was the "biggest one-year increase in homicides… since national records started in 1960."
So, in 2025, how did the New York Times cover the FBI report documenting the largest annual decrease in homicides ever recorded? The report did not make the front page on August 6, and, as of Wednesday afternoon, the New York Times had not covered the story at all.
If it bleeds, it leads
Its because they want to keep you riled up thinking someone is right around the corner waiting to get you. Every time I hop on my wife's facebook to check a group message or something I get bombasted with missing teenage girl posts. Yeah, it happens, and it's unfortunate, but it's actually exceedingly rare for minors to get kidnapped by anyone other than other family members.
they want to keep you riled up thinking someone is right around the corner waiting to get you
missing teenage girl posts
It's tragically ironic, because they (the people at the top) could be seen as the biggest threat in these cases, with their system of sex trafficking/rape islands/etc.
If you really want to test your cognitive dissonance skills then consider this as well: Mass shootings are extremely rare too.
If you feel yourself getting angry and tempted to type out a long-winded reply about how awful they are, how they only happen in the US, etc. then congratulations - you now understand other people who fixate on specific types of crime (e.g. immigrant crime).
Rare as they may be, they're still by orders of magnitude more common in the US than in any other developed country. And they are entirely preventable, as said countries demonstrate.
The next question is why.
Full and semi auto weapons are over 100 years old. The AR-15, in particular, is 70 years old. However, we don't see school shootings really pop up until Columbine in 1999, and that happened while the federal assault weapons ban was still in effect.
Of their weapons, only the Hi-point carbine would be covered by the AWB. The company has manufactured a version that skirts around some state level AWBs. The rest of their weapons were pistols and shotguns, would be difficult to ban outright, plus improvised bombs made of commonly available stuff.
We have cultural problem with school shootings, and it didn't start until the late 90s. If it were just availability of certain tech, it would have started decades earlier.
A huge issue is the right wing itself. Several shooters cite conspiratorial nonsense spread by the likes of Alex Jones. At least one of the Columbine shooters was praiseworthy of Nazis in his journal, though the exact motives have been elusive. Regardless, the takeover of John Birch Society thinking on the right plays a role.
I wouldn’t call this rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2024
If you read that list most should be categorized as gang crime. A bigger issue is suicide by firearm being counted in the gun crime and death statistics, removal of which makes the USA still high but not by as much you would think.
I will say, I'm a little surprised Trump didn't use just the headline without the article to claim crime is down because of the deportations. I know he wouldn't be able to back it up with data, but when has that mattered to him?
I guess the illusion of crime being up is still more important to him than pretending he can pat himself on the back.
