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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20332663
Donald Trump on Sunday proposed a new policy that many critics said is equivalent to legalizing “The Purge.”
Trump spoke at a rally in Pennsylvania, where he admitted that his attendees were “falling asleep” at one of his earlier rallies. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign noted that, as Trump was still speaking at the swing-state event over the weekend, rallygoers placed directly behind the former president started to funnel out of the building.
One comment Trump made drew condemnation on social media, as well as numerous comparisons to The Purge, a film series based on a dystopian world in which the government makes all crimes legal for a 12-hour period.
As reported by Sebastian Smith, AFP Washington desk chief, “Trump in Erie, PA, says in US ‘the police aren’t allowed to do their job.’ To stop crime, you need ‘one really violent day.’ He says: ‘One rough hour and I mean real rough, the word would get out and it would end immediately.’”
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Reminder: crime is at an all time low.
Across nearly every metric. We are living in historically safe times.
Crime has skyrocketed among former Presidents though.
Well, it DID increase for a bit, but has been dropping since 2023.
For a bit and then a rapid drop. The point is that crime rates have been crashing since the 90s and these people keep telling us that crime is up. They either don’t know that or they are lying to us to knowingly manipulate people and not enough of them get called out on it.
It increased because of the pandemic, which was an outlier year.
It was a rather local maximum, though.
I think it’s all just been replaced with unprosecuted white collar crime.