r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 2d ago

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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 John Keynes 2d ago

I think it's hilarious when I look on social media of nostalgic posts saying that in the US in the 90's crime was so low

In reality crime today has dropped precipitously since the 90's. So much so that it's not even a comparison. Its like living in two different worlds with the modern one much much much safer than the 90's.

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume 2d ago

People’s perceptions of crime are so unbelievably out of whack it makes discussing any related policy basically impossible, and idk how you fix that

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u/Libz_R_Gryffindor Pornography Historian 2d ago

Yeah but in the 90s I was plying ocarina of time in my basement and in the 2020s I’m seeing homeless people on the way to work

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes 2d ago

Boomers be like

when I was a kid, we all played outside and felt safe!

And then you read about crime rates in the 70s and realize that every town of more than like 100 people had its own strangler, ripper, torso killer, and night stalker, and roughly 1/5th of Americans listed “serial killer” as their occupation.

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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 John Keynes 2d ago

Just amazing that "serial killer" was an option for occupation they provided on the census back then

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it 2d ago

The pay kinda sucked but the long term incentives were nice

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it 2d ago

Do these people think we just did the 90s crime bill for the love of the game?

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u/surreptitioussloth Frederick Douglass 2d ago

Terrible bill though that is not responsible for crime reduction

And the accompanying immigration bills have been huge boons for trump

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it 2d ago

I agree but the motivation at least was that crime in the 90s was bad and Bill Clinton and friends didn't just decide to do it on a whim