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> Why has the rate of stochastic terrorism only increased since the NSA and Palantir started spying on all of us?

…is this true? What timespan are we looking at? My understanding was that crime has been on the decline pretty much from the 90s up until 2020. And in 2020 the world changed in a way that kind of made everyone go nuts.

>>Wowfun+(OP)
Let’s start with school shootings which only started AFTER the surveillance apparatus went online.

>>therob+i2
You're making the same mistake that lots of people do, looking at the big events that make the news instead of actual crime stats. The former doesn't really tell you anything about crime rates.

This is a big problem that leads to things like these surveillance measures, because people think crime is really high even when it's the lowest it has ever been, because of the media environment.

>>Wowfun+34
I'm not American so please educate me if I'm wrong but haven't y'all had school shootings every single day for at least a decade or something?

>>Wowfun+(OP)
Violent crimes stats look the same pretty much everywhere in the west, there are way more variables than "surveillance on/off", probably a lot of socio economic variables if I had to guess, as it turns out most people who are well fed, have a good life and look forward to a brighter future don't just walk around and commit violent crimes.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mirta-Gordon/publicatio...