Not all crime is murder.
Thankyou for this important information, of which I was previously unaware. It is, nonetheless, a fair and reasonable proxy for the overall crime in a country.
Structural discrimination creates the conditions for unemployment, low wages, poor health and crime including drug dealing and murder.
Yes, of course.
You have taken two separate graphs but shown no causality between them.
The relationship between unemployment and many kinds of crime is well-established in
country after
country. There are of course many factors, such as structural discrimination as you mention, substance abuse, the presence or absence of social services, the size of the community (10 x 1,000 person towns have less crime than 1x 10,000 person town) and so on and so forth. And not all jobs are equal, a casual part-time job on minimum wage does not have the same pacifying stabilising effect as a permanent full-time job at double the minimum wage.
But all other things being equal, if you take a bunch of unemployed people and give them some sort of job, they are less likely to do criminal things - and most of the criminal things they would have done would have been to other poor people, so there's less being a victim of crime, too. I am not sure why this is contentious, except for someone who's desperate to avoid giving old Drumpf any credit whatsoever. But if you don't want to give him credit, since he's a fucking idiot that doesn't bother me - just credit the changes to Obama's education reforms and other things, and in any case whatever good Drumpf might have done for the last few years is more than wiped out by the bad he's done in the last few months.
You are getting perilously close to becoming the first person ever to go on my ignore list.
I shall endeavour to bear this heavy burden without complaint. But consider why you would become so distressed by someone who is not insulting you, who does not deny structural racism or that the US has serious problems, but is only presenting facts - and hopeful facts about the world and your country.
Prior to the virus and lockdown, more people who previously had
no job now had
some sort of job, and fewer people were committing crimes or becoming victims of crime.
This does not mean all their jobs were good and secure ones. This does not mean crime had become zero. This does not mean everyone was living in a paradise. It does mean that bad lives were getting better. Not as good as they could or should be? Undoubtedly.
But lives were getting better. I am not sure why that is distressing and unwelcome news. You can certainly say, "it's not enough", of course. But better is better.