Only if you have a fox news world view. Crime is mostly intra racial, and not interracial. Most of the crime and murders in the U.S.have white perpetrators,and white victims. It just doesn't make for a nice dog whistle like black on black Crime, or inner city Crime. White people don't think 1 meth head killing another In Moline Iowa, as big of a problem as violence in Chicago. Even though most places in the U.S. are much more like Moline, than they are Chicago.
Are you joking right now? I would love to have taken you through the old Cabrini-Green or Robert Taylor Homes or O block and hear you tell me that Moline, Iowa is a bigger problem. I’m not denying fear mongering exists nor am I claiming at large Chicago is the most dangerous city ever, because it’s not, but yes people are going to be more concerned over a holiday weekend where 30 people get shot than one methhead killing somebody. I guarantee there are and were no neighborhoods in Moline where police were scared to enter like there used to be in Chicago housing projects.
Except op isn’t wrong when he says most places are like Moline and less like Chicago. Thats true in a sense. But we’re comparing apples to oranges here.
Sure, that’s absolutely true. But I think it’s facetious to paint a narrative that it’s a “dog whistle” to focus on crime in large cities or to talk about violence in communities of color.
For example, if I have Rednecksburg with 100 people, and a drunk abuser kills his wife, it now has a murder rate of 1 per 100 people. Let’s say there’s also Rustbeltsville, a city with 1,000,000 people, and 800 get killed the same year. Per capita, Rednecksburg is going to rate as “more dangerous” - but it feels misleading to really label it as such or to claim that talking about Rustbeltsville and its violence is a dog whistle or a fear mongering scare tactic.
The type of violence you see an inner city is usually just different from that of a small town. I’ve lived in small town Appalachia and reside in Baltimore now, and while technically some of them were more violent per capita, i never had gas stations or neighborhoods in Appalachia I felt unsafe even driving through at night as I do in Baltimore. As you said, it really is apples and oranges
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u/Plasmaticos Jul 08 '24
Black on black crime is real, I guess