[From "Critical Crime Theories"]

Crime in America was pretty bad when I was a kid but the issue wasn’t sugar coated. There was a whole entertainment genre themed: We need somebody to get rough with this scum
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I grew up in a mid-sized Southern city that had seen better days just like Times Square. Our downtown was gentrified from a place with a smut shop (owned by an old guess who) and a bunch of rundown buildings into an area with trendy condos, shops, bars and restaurants

The residential properties are still okay but the retail is in sharp decline as shootings from the nearby projects have migrated into these locations. As SWPL as the transplants who snap the condos up tend to be, they’re still wary of catching a stray round while browsing for clothes
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A sharp contrast between then and now is the lack of self-efficacy that defines the grievances of Heritage Americans about crime. In the past, cinema would cater to our displeasure and politicians would have to do something real about it

The point of movies these days is to replace white male protagonists or at least insert disjointed diversity into remakes[…]The agenda of politicians and prosecutors is a comprehensive reversal of all the progress made in the 90’s while simultaneously persecuting political dissidents and ordinary people who defend themselves

My question is where are they taking all of this?
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An end goal that’s theoretically feasible? Not so much

I suspect this is why dissidents trying to conceptualize everything systemically often narrow down to the most terrifying dystopian possibilities
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If there’s no political will to fix the problem, the practical mechanisms for addressing the problem are being dismantled[…]render much of the country ungovernable, maybe they’re letting it happen because they’ve got a more comprehensive solution in mind. By “they,” I’m not referring to the politicians