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Was it a Mistake to Defund the Police? (Asks Local Idiot) The Free Money Glitch to High Crime
In this gripping episode, we explore the rising crime rates in major U.S. cities, focusing on new crime trends and their impact on local businesses. We dive into the implications of advanced surveillance technologies like Amazon Go's 'Just Walk Out Technology,' and discuss shocking incidents such as the TikTok 'Chase Money Glitch.' Examining societal perceptions and police responses, we debate tough-on-crime policies, including drastic measures like mass incarceration and execution. Additionally, we explore the ethics of creating penal colonies for repeat offenders and the distinction between intellectual property and personal crimes, ending on a lighter interaction through social media. Join us for an in-depth analysis of crime, justice, and societal responses.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Simone. Today we are going to be talking about an interesting topic. One is new forms of crime and crime waves that are hitting major American cities at the moment and transforming the nature of business in these cities.
Speaker 6: If you could walk into a store, grab what you want, and just go. What would shopping look like?
Speaker 7: Oh my god! Call the police!
Speaker 6: Welcome to Amazon Go. We call it Just Walk Out Technology. Piece
Speaker 8: of s**t. I'll be overdosed.
Speaker 2: recently. There was a TikTok trend. . That was called the, the chase money glitch.
Speaker 20: Twins, Twins, I'm not even gonna lie. I'm not even supposed to condone this type of behavior due to the direction that I'm trying to project my life in. But that Chase Bait Plate looking too sweet right now, Twins. No cap. I can just hit one Chase Bait Plate.
Speaker 18: The f**k man? They really told me to tap in next day I was supposed to [00:01:00] clear look at my account yo
Speaker 24: Cause I have 30, 000 in credit card debt. When they call, I tell them I can't pay it back yet. Credit card debt
Speaker 3: I'm so excited about this.
Speaker 2: is despite what people think there is actually pretty strong evidence that crime in the current day and age is at one of its highest levels in human history.
Speaker: That's meaningful because normally the trend is, oh, you watch the news, you think crime is so bad when really crime has never been lower and violence has never been lower.
Speaker 2: If you crime is going down. Just to quickly know where this number comes from. Specifically, what they do at is they correlate crime rates across cultures with homicide rates, which are much easier to track in absolute amounts, right? Because many
Speaker: people have things stolen from them and just never report it or even that reporting just gets lost.
And so it's not good. And then what they
Speaker 2: do is they correlate the homicide rates. with [00:02:00] correcting for survival rates due to advances in medical technology. And when you correct for that, what looks like a dropping crime rate is actually a quickly rising crime rate,
Speaker: right? Because the issue is that in what really we were looking at was, Oh, our hospitals have gotten a lot better.
It's not crime has gone down. It's that now when you get shot, you're more likely to live, which is
Speaker 2: nice. I guess. I'd also be going over a phenomenon where police have basically given up, or it looks like from the data, people are just not being convicted anymore. Can you blame them? Also, a lot of people are getting elected at all.
I mean, it's, it's such a thankless job today, but let's get into the data. Cause this is going to be a very data heavy episode and some of the individual claims here,
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago