I’ve gone down that rabbit hole, looking over the FBI’s, statista’s, Brookings, and other published crime rates over the 14- years. Over that time the crime type fluctuations weren’t as drastic as the news or police departments would have you believe.

As an example here are the homicide rates for that time period:

Crime rates before George Floyd:

Homicide Based on the FBI Uniform Crime Reports data provided in the search results, the homicide rates for major U.S. cities from 2010 to 2019 showed the following trends:

• The national homicide rate declined from 4.8 per 100,000 people in 2010 to 4.5 per 100,000 in 2014.
• After 2014, there was an upward trend in homicide rates, which began in 2015.
• By 2019, the homicide rate had increased to 6.0 per 100,000 people. (It’s important to note that these figures represent national averages, and individual cities experienced varying rates) https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm https://counciloncj.org/homicide-trends-report/ https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-highest-murder-rates/

Crime rates after GF:

Homicide Based on the search results, a general average for homicide rates in the United States from 2020 to 2024 can be summarized as follows:

• 2020: 6.42 per 100,000 people
• 2021: 6.81 per 100,000 people
• 2022-2024: Declining trend, with rates approaching pre-pandemic levels
• 2024 (first half): On track to return to levels close to 2019 (While an exact average for the entire period isn’t provided, the general range appears to be between 6.0 and 7.0 per 100,000 people, with a peak in 2021 and a subsequent decline towards pre-pandemic levels.) https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-did-u-s-homicides-spike-in-2020-and-then-decline-rapidly-in-2023-and-2024/ https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-2024-update/ https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate

edited for lame-o formatting and removed some weird percentages from notes I didn’t finish looking up and therefore the stats weren’t complete and not referenced either.

Someone…

Is it us?

It’s us, isn’t it.

“According to the ByteDance researchers, OmniHuman-1 only needs a single reference image and audio, like speech or vocals, to generate a clip of an arbitrary length.”

I am SO glad I never did a youtue channel, a vine, an IG, or really anything. This is creepy as fuck.

It was 3b until the George Floyd protests. Then we defunded them. Now they’re trying to claw it back. They just got 500mill added to their budget last year.

We’re gonna need more than 50m. How about the 3b we give to LAPD?

bUt hE’s NoT a RuSSiAn aSsEt /s

Here’s to hope and it really fucks over Maga voters.

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I’m glad they’re at least trying

I don’t understand how no one has come for him for being in that building. He had no business in there. If he can go in there then why can’t I?

“may”

I heard Mark Cuban is developing one. lol

Yea. I bet. =(

You think? lol

Kind of fighting back. Two democratic congressmen spoke out. The rest of them are fighting for who can be the biggest nazi.

Counting their doge coin

When NPR dedicated all of 2016 to breaking Bernie down I knew it was compromised.

Oh ffs. Fuck right off congress.

lmfao

Initiating thought process… … ok I see a headline that the DNC did something and I already want to set everything on fire but I am going to do my VERY BEST to reserve the kneejerk reaction and read folx comments and the story and who this dude is… Initial thoughts from the news story: Minnesota, huh? Is this the DNC’s new strategy? When in trouble run for Minnesota politicians? The new improved “Southern Strategy,” if you will? Also, who the hell was the chair before? A Jaime Harrison from South Carolina. Huh, I know nothing about him but I guess the news says his tenure was filled with him arguing with the White House. Wtf does the DNC even do? Break their “code of neutrality” and back shitty primary candidates no one wants. Oh, and they fund raise, ignore constituent’s needs to build campaigns that suck, and do the whole outdated convention bs. Anyway, back to this Martin dude. If the White House was unwilling to listen to Harrison then why would anyone believe a game of musical chairs would fix any of this. The issue is corruption. The democrats are rotten from the inside. The party needs a full restructuring from ground up and at this point, we are very possibly to damned late.