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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?

Exactly. And even if there isn't an RSS available some of the paid RSS servers will webscrape for you. I have been building my own webscraping code but it works. I just decided I need to put some distance between myself and the abusive way we are presented news these days.

Pick and choose your battles, love. This is a long road. You don't have to physically be present for every battle.

You did great. Your intention was in the right place.

I was referred to read the book "They Thought They Were Free" by one of the bees here and it's great. I have a copy of it on document and my library has the audiobook version. I am studying Spanish and sometimes I think I'm such a hack at it but today's lesson with my sweetheart Argentinian teacher made me feel like I'm making progress. Some dickwad at a karaoke bday party gave me covid last week. Today is the first day of being covid negative. Paxlovid sucks, though. I finished building an RSS for myself so I can pick the good newsources and let the shitty ones be. I also finished studying pixelfed and cherry pick last week. Old friends are reaching out to me because the state of this country (the US) is scaring the shit out of everyone and they are coming to me to teach them about decentralized socials and because I worked as a human rights journalist/analyst for over a decade.* I guess they find comfort in talking to me. I donated money to archive.today and uhhh sh.itjust.works. Will donate to beehaw. My cherry pick instance is worried about being hosted here in the US and I told the mod I'll try and help them figure out a move. So any thoughts on that would be great.

bUt hE's NoT a RuSSiAn aSsEt /s

Really wish* they had a mastodon

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