Why the violence is increasing or is it social media which is showing violence?

@helenS the verbal abuse in both social media and rl is demonstrable. Yes we had no electronic medicine a and textual interchange 15 or 10 years ago, do a little difficult to really measure, but there seems to be good data recently showing it.

@samueltyler2 Here's the homicide rate in France since 1990:

Increase of violence? Come on 😏

@helenS i am not speaking about actual crime, I.am.spraking more, at this time, about incivility to each other, bad mouthing, bullying and the likes. No one really measures those accurately.

@helenS

It means that just like here, crime stats are manipulated by minimizing charges, and outright ignoring others

Are you really claiming that bringing in more 3rd world savages decreases crime? Come on 🤨

@Thrust No I don't think I claimed that. My claim was that crime rates are on the decrease in most countries, and the number of crimes is exaggerated in the news to intimidate people.

@helenS That is true. Often violence has decreased but politicians claim that it's at the highest rate. This is using fear to manipulate, oldest trick in the book.

@samueltyler2 There is definately less civility online and political civility. That may not translate to violent crime.

@JimboSaturn it hasn't so far, the annual FBI statistics always lagging behind but :


https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fbi-data-confirms-drop-most-crimes-2023-especially-murders

U.S. crime rate per 100K population for 2021 was 6.81, a 6.02% increase from 2020.
U.S. crime rate per 100K population for 2020 was 6.42, a 28.78% increase from 2019.
U.S. crime rate per 100K population for 2019 was 4.99, a 1.14% increase from 2018.
U.S. crime rate per 100K population for 2018 was 4.93, a 5.99% decline from 2017.
Intentional homicides are estimates of unlawful homicides purposely inflicted as a result of domestic disputes, interpersonal violence, violent conflicts over land resources, intergang violence over turf or control, and predatory violence and killing by armed groups. Intentional homicide does not include all intentional killing; the difference is usually in the organization of the killing. Individuals or small groups usually commit homicide, whereas killing in armed conflict is usually committed by fairly cohesive groups of up to several hundred members and is thus usually excluded. The full historical dataset is available for download here: U.S. Crime Rate & Statistics | Historical Data | 1990 - 2021.