Better help is a scam and anyone that promotes it is contributing
@dj711627 ай бұрын
It's Vox. I can't say I'm surprised.
@TheFireGiver7 ай бұрын
Why are they a scam? Because it's expensive?
@jakef.71267 ай бұрын
@@TheFireGiver KZbin is flooded with videos calling out BetterHelp
@jakef.71267 ай бұрын
Vox does some great work and then chooses this abysmal sponsor... It is one thing choosing an awful sponsor that no one knows... But a loathed company is ridiculous!
@niyo9197 ай бұрын
@@TheFireGiver The majority of their "Therapists" aren't licensed, and a lot of them are extremely unprofessional, even talking to clients in public spaces or around other people.
@abacus-seven7 ай бұрын
it's a shame to put out a video this good that no one in the comments is talking about because of the sponsor.
@lauren65097 ай бұрын
Ikr. They act like vox was promoting ivermectin ☠️
@DreadedLad887 ай бұрын
Thats what conservatives do...Its like their only trick...Deflection.
@TurbopropPuppy7 ай бұрын
one could even say it's a... crime
@AndreAnyone7 ай бұрын
40% of law enforcement agencies nationwide did not submit 2021 crime data. While a number of states, including Connecticut, Delaware, and Vermont, had near universal compliance, many others did not. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed 2021 NIBRS participation data to identify the states that do not report crime to the FBI. In each of the 21 states on this list, at least a third of law enforcement agencies did not submit crime data to the FBI in 2021.
@Secretlyanothername7 ай бұрын
Just a bunch of parrot accounts who repeat whatever they've heard. Kind of like the people the video talks about
@Golgo14127 ай бұрын
Betterhelp? Seriously? Come on!
@djerdjmatkovicjunior92957 ай бұрын
LOL i thought that too!
@paksta7 ай бұрын
Whats the problem with betterhelp?
@Flijo-zi7 ай бұрын
@@paksta its a scam
@Turbo4957 ай бұрын
@@paksta they sell your personal information while claiming to "help" you
@marcel_chavez7 ай бұрын
@@pakstaI also want to know the problem with better help, I have seen many creators partner with them and comments complaining about that
@WOODSLD807 ай бұрын
People love making other people panic. It’s an American pastime.
@AB-zl4nh7 ай бұрын
Human. This happens across the world due to the Right Wing media and politicians.
@brandontrammel45817 ай бұрын
Facts
@Littlegoblinfatface7 ай бұрын
Vox is great at doing that
@Littlegoblinfatface7 ай бұрын
Literally fear mongering their viewers into using scam ai pseudoscience
@Littlegoblinfatface7 ай бұрын
Vox better help!
@abba77077 ай бұрын
Better Help got sued for selling personal data and lost.
@GregHuffman19875 ай бұрын
theyre causing crime to rise
@chuck84787 ай бұрын
betterhelp is bad for patients and practitioners
@TheOfficialOriginalChad7 ай бұрын
Why?
@EmmaKintner7 ай бұрын
@@TheOfficialOriginalChadthere’s some pretty sick video essays if you search em up
@churblefurbles7 ай бұрын
@TheOfficialOriginalChad The same reason this channel is not to be trusted.
@samphelps8567 ай бұрын
This
@Lazaven7 ай бұрын
@@churblefurblesstop crying about sponsors are you gonna pay the bills at vox?
@xvx48487 ай бұрын
That's because they listen to the media and the media says crime is high so they can hook eyeballs to watch ads. As far as I'm concerned the media has destroyed their credibility.
@ReadThisOnly7 ай бұрын
Nightcrawler should be required reading
@yucol56617 ай бұрын
It’s entertaining to feel like you know what’s happening or like you are making hostile safer by knowing some secret dark truth. Same as armchair political commentators or people who do their reasearch and find a miracle diet tea
@muhcharona7 ай бұрын
Crime is high, the media is covering for Biden, so why trust it.
@AndreAnyone7 ай бұрын
Major city's like LA and NY stopped recording crimes and stopped reporting the numbers to the FBI ever since biden got into office. Google it
@churblefurbles7 ай бұрын
This IS the media, bought and paid for by you know who.
@danielponcianodiaz1767 ай бұрын
To Americans poverty is a crime.
@oldvlognewtricks7 ай бұрын
And critical thinking
@1337billybob7 ай бұрын
Poverty is criminalized. As far as I know the origins of that criminalization come out as a reaction to slavery only being legalized for people who are convicted and imprisoned.
@mgabriel26367 ай бұрын
@1337billybob poverty related behaviors.
@AwesomeBlackDude7 ай бұрын
Not having rent control is poverty.
@JZTechEngineering7 ай бұрын
@@AwesomeBlackDudeno
@judesussman45027 ай бұрын
why on earth were those people just chanting crime in the intro?
@kelvinball57627 ай бұрын
This was during Kathy Hochul's run for governor in New York. It was extremely offputting to see live, because the protestors looked gleeful that crime was up and they could use it as a cudgel against the governor.
There is a similar phenomenon when you look at the actual statistics of death versus media coverage of deaths. For example, Homicide makes up 0.9% of all causes of death and terrorism is basically almost 0%, yet the news coverage on homicide is 22% (compared to coverage on other causes) and coverage on terrorism is in the 30% (in 2017 at least). Meanwhile, heart disease makes up about 2-3% of the coverage while 30% of deaths are actually due to heart disease. The news only reports on sensational causes such as homicide, cancer, self-harm, terrorism - but never about slow systemic killers like respiratory disease, Alzheimers, pneumonia, kidney disease, etc.. They’ll also only mention drug overdoses to say it’s a problem, not who it’s happening to and why and how to solve it. Same goes with crime - they’ll report on the sensational homicides happening in populated areas, or talk about the poverty on the streets, but never about the actual systemic causes of the suffering that leads to crime, or the crime that happens on a daily basis to disadvantaged communities (unless they wanna demonize them).
@latte22977 ай бұрын
Like fear around nuclear reactors. The accident rate is superrrr low but because they're so televised when they do happen, people are fearful to have one near them even though there's so many beenfits.
@merrymachiavelli20417 ай бұрын
It's also true within homicides, we have a really skewed idea about who murders who. Unless you're involved with organised crime or have an abusive present/former partner, you are phenomenally unlikely to be murdered. Especially if you're a woman.
@RubNebur7 ай бұрын
THE FAUX NEWS EFFECT.
@orionxtc11197 ай бұрын
homicide almost 1%? that is a lot....it is far lower in most countries
@AndreAnyone7 ай бұрын
40% of law enforcement agencies nationwide did not submit 2021 crime data. While a number of states, including Connecticut, Delaware, and Vermont, had near universal compliance, many others did not. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed 2021 NIBRS participation data to identify the states that do not report crime to the FBI. In each of the 21 states on this list, at least a third of law enforcement agencies did not submit crime data to the FBI in 2021.
@Adrian-uq4yb7 ай бұрын
I think a big factor in why Americans feel as though crime has been increasing is because of our media. When we turn on the tv, whether it’s the local news, or national news channels like CNN, Fox, CBS, MSNBC, etc. you’re more than likely gonna run into at least one story talking about someone getting killed, or robbed, or assaulted, or something else along those lines; and it’s because those stories interest people more than something along the lines of, “This zoo welcomed a new animal.” “Our city has just elected a new comptroller.” “The public library has bought a thousand new books.” I’m no different, in my city a security guard at my old high school was shot while breaking up a fight, and one of the first things I did when I heard that news was turn on the TV to hear my mayors press conference on the shooting. News channels jobs are to tell the people what is happening around them, but it’s also to get views, and talking about crime is one major way to get more people listening to you, and in turn get more money. But it also leads to a somewhat warped perception of reality, because when these for profit companies constantly talk about crime in order to get people to listen to them, it in turn leads people to believe that crime is everywhere, even if that isn’t true.
@kingace61867 ай бұрын
Yup. The 4th Estate needs some common sense regulation. First of all, willingly disinforming the public show be considered fraud.
@Acidfunkish7 ай бұрын
The news media depends on FUD. It doesn't help that Sinclair Broadcast Group, alone, has something like 30-40% of audience capture, alone, in the US. With the highest number of "must runs" blasted across "local" news stations. No one should be permitted to have that much power over perception.
@DavidRGD7 ай бұрын
In a way, the more tougher in crime laws may might as well push them onto a darker path, leading to the very situation they are trying to prevent... Enacting perception based laws without hearing any context when they need to constantly talk about every crime story is dangerous.
@bryjam7 ай бұрын
Fear sells. It's that simple.
@chinesesparrows7 ай бұрын
Yet some want to vote a convicted felon as president, with the crimes being low brow stuff like lying about paying 100k to hush a pr0nstar, not any highbrow stuff
@kueller9177 ай бұрын
The big issue with poverty-as-crime is it looks to solutions for crime instead of solutions to poverty, and this in turn helps make the poverty worse. American homelessness in cities is very much related to increasing costs of rent, which is about city policy and housing. Drug use is largely the opioid epidemic which was a pharmaceutical malpractice and can be aided with recovery programs. Addiction combines with homelessness to become _visible_ addiction. Solutions to crime is the police. The police can only shove people around or throw them in jail for some time. But they don't go away so the problem doesn't really go away. I don't know how to solve that so long as people conflate police/addiction and actual crime. Whenever a city tries to push for better and proper policy there is an uproar because if you only see the problems are criminal then shifting attention away from policing looks like a tolerance of crime.
@Sdbyvdaghk7 ай бұрын
Not the BetterHelp sponsorship
@samphelps8567 ай бұрын
💀
@Knytz7 ай бұрын
i really need to check what is going with Betterhelp
@arahman567 ай бұрын
Pausing a video about crime to promote a scam...bruh moment.
@sanj88-r7w3 ай бұрын
The classic crime!!
@imdownwithjoshbrown7 ай бұрын
didn't want to pull the sponsor on this video? Maybe you can do a video about how they're selling user health data
@samphelps8567 ай бұрын
Yes
@DreadedLad887 ай бұрын
You russian bots are really trying to control that crime narrative lol
@Facetiously.Esoteric7 ай бұрын
As with numerous other issues, a big part of the problem is news networks needing to create drama in a bid for viewers. Add social media who will say anything for money to that equation, and we end up where we are now.
@DeRien84 ай бұрын
Lol, yup. All the people on Facebook and Nextdoor sharing video from their Ring cameras. For a while, a neighborhood near me actually did have a spike in vehicle theft. Because the residents are wealthy it got a lot of attention and coverage, but also action to curb it. Signs everywhere about best security practices, etc. Now it's largely stopped again, but the feeling that vehicle theft is rampant has been left in the wake of the actual crimes
@chaosfenix7 ай бұрын
I think that perception is also affected by how well an individual experiences crime. What I mean is that in the 90s when you saw a news story about a violent crime you would potentially see police tape or at most someone in a hospital. Now, thanks to everyone having really good cameras in their pockets and surveillance cameras being so cheap, you don't see the scene of the crime but you get to watch the crime itself. You see the gun fight or you see the person being beat with a hammer. It really changes your perception of how safe you feel. Before it was just a statistic, but with the video you see it in all of its brutality. The brutality hasn't changed but how you experience it definitely has. Edit: Also wanted to add that just because the rate is decreasing doesn't mean it still isn't too high. Our homicide rate is much higher than most developed nations with our homicide rate of 6.4/100k being much closer to Russia's 6.8 and El Salvador's 7.8 than Canada's 2.3 or Norway's 0.6. It is better but we still have a long ways to go.
@Lyoko9207 ай бұрын
This is a great point. I’m too young to remember the 90s, but I do remember the time before we were able to watch high quality crime footage on our devices 24/7. Watching the actual crime is more immersive than something like an interview with the victim. Even if it’s an unlikely event, watching it happen to a random person makes it feel like that could be you or a loved one.
@churblefurbles7 ай бұрын
@Lyoko920 Still not, they are fudging the numbers while people are cocooning in response.
@chrisball37787 ай бұрын
I remember the 90's and there were loads of shows like Cops and World's Wildest Police Videos that used video footage of crimes as entertainment, and lots of sensationalised crime reporting. There's more video footage out there than ever, but there's always been a huge appetite for it and mass-consumption of crime footage is not a new phenomenon at all. Newspapers in the 1930's used to regularly print graphic crime scene photos that would be heavily censored in today's press. There was widespread scare mongering about crime back in the 90's as well, leading to drastic increases in incarceration during the period and the proliferation of harsh anti-crime measures such as three strikes laws and mandatory minimum sentences. Unfortunately the disconnect between the public perception of crime and the reality has been around a long time.
@oddfox67767 ай бұрын
If we can get it to a record low America will improve a lot!!!
@tarico44367 ай бұрын
Nice comment, chaos; can I pile on? Why indeed did crime drop so much during the 90s? One, many more cameras near downtown streets and at businesses were installed in the late 80s and early 90s, and two, DNA evidence became admissible in our courtrooms in 1987. News that your DNA could now lead to your conviction gradually spread after 1987; this prompted a lot fewer false accusations--which is a crime--as well as cut back on other crimes. Anybody else? What else caused this, for instance, halving of our unaliving rate (since 1990)? (Note: America is halfway up that list, unalivings per 100,000 per year. There are about 210 countries who keep stats on unalivings, and we're about 105.)
@SRMkay7 ай бұрын
So I live in Philadelphia, and I've lived here for 3 years. Part of the issue with these surveys is that people will tend to remember a spike in crime for much longer than a period of relative safety, and they may believe that a crime spike is still ongoing much longer than it actually is. Around the pandemic, there was a fair bit of looting downtown--not uncommon to see a store with boarded windows after a break-in. After the pandemic, the "Kia Boys" challenge saw a spike in vehicle theft. Once Kia/Hyundai recalled the affected vehicles, there was a new issue with roaming gangs of teenagers entering stores en masse and shoplifting stuff, using their numbers to get away with it. All of those problems have subsided for the most part, but things like that stick in people's minds. People may delude themselves into thinking looters are still breaking into pandemic-shuttered stores in 2024, or car thieves are still targeting Kias and Hyundais despite them receiving a security update a year ago. Bad experiences tend to make a bigger impression on our minds than good ones.
@Kelogotti6 ай бұрын
You must live in the suburbs because crime is rampant in Philadelphia
@Stroproducedit3 ай бұрын
Life long Philly resident and you’re absolutely correct. The crime rate in Philly has gone down for sure! I remember back in 2020 crime was through the roof. Now it’s back to typical big city levels. Not great, but nowhere near what was in 2020
@pusicer7 ай бұрын
poverty could lead to crime but poverty =/= crime. There are neighborhoods in New York City that are in average to below average median income yet still have very low crime rate.
@brandon91727 ай бұрын
What resources are available to people in those neighborhoods though? They could have better access to food banks, homeless shelters, housing assistance, free/low income clinics, and other programs, and that won't necessarily show up in income statistics despite having a huge impact on a communities well being.
@longiusaescius25377 ай бұрын
@brandon9172 It's not poverty
@dontmisunderstand60417 ай бұрын
Median income is also middle class. There's a huge difference between below average and poor. 38k per year is good money. Like, that's an income that lets you not be in debt AND build up a nest egg for emergencies. You could have at least given an example of an impoverished community for your purposes if you wanted to make that point.
@Digger-Nick7 ай бұрын
Because it's not about poverty and never was lol. It's all pure deflection
@DavidRGD2 ай бұрын
poverty's only a consequence of crime, but not entirely a cause. Just the only thing that's a threat was robberies, and each and every day they keep hearing the news story of murder (some dating back decades).
@stormer75027 ай бұрын
the people within the "tough on crime" crowd who I know tell me their entire set of evidence for this illusive "out of control crime" is "I think there are more security guards in stores" and "that one incident I saw on the news the other day which happened 20 miles away." We live in the exact same neighborhood, have largely the same exact local experiences, yet somehow reach completely different conclusions. The differentiating factor is media consumption. I'm just not plugged into media constantly reporting on every little bad thing which happens in a 100 mile radius to turn a profit, or worse, media which very explicitly tries to sell a narrative of rampant crime.
@longiusaescius25377 ай бұрын
@stormer7502 ignoring FBI change moment
@petersmythe64627 ай бұрын
There are three kinds of people: 1. Those who see crime happening on the streets. 2. Those who see crime happening on the news. 3. Those who see crime happening in the numbers. Group 2 are operating with zero, or effectively zero information. They're not multiplying the murder rate per whatever by life expectancy and calculating the expected QALY cost due to the chance of being murdered due to lifestyle change XYZ. They're not looking at what's happening in the world and reacting accordingly either. They're looking at the news and the news always says one thing "there was a murder somewhere in the country today." If murder got 30 times better or worse it would do the same thing. They are completely insensitive to *actual* changes in crime rate, only to what an opinion-based partisan media ecosystem SAYS the crime rate is doing. This is the vast majority of Americans who take neither a data driven nor direct experience approach but rather one that is based on anecdote and feelings rather than anything else.
@raf22nd7 ай бұрын
The real crime is Betterhelp being a sponsor
@SuperMustache5557 ай бұрын
I'd love to see a video about why crime fell so sharply in the '90s
@ml61587 ай бұрын
Unleaded gasoline
@davianoinglesias50307 ай бұрын
It was the hey days of the tech industry and money was plenty
@randomnobody87707 ай бұрын
Economist Steven Levitt proved that about 30-50% of the drop was caused by increased abortion access. The data was reanalyzed recently (about 20 years after the initial paper) and it held up extremely well. Other major causes are removal of leaded gasoline ~20 years prior, and an aging population bulge (crime is very, very, very tightly correlated with age), plus more police.
@JanjayTrollface7 ай бұрын
Michael Jordan.
@SuperMustache5557 ай бұрын
@@randomnobody8770 How would an increase in abortion access reduce crime? What's the causal link there? Could you also explain what leaded gasoline is and how its removal might lead to the reduction in crime?
@micahbush53977 ай бұрын
What, you mean Americans form their opinions based on what they _think_ is true, regardless of whether it actually aligns with reality? That's a shocker.
@ericbartol7 ай бұрын
LOL It couldn't have been caused by a scare mongering news media bent on scaring people into watching them 24-7, could it?
@lynn47807 ай бұрын
you just did the same by generalizing all americans
@ericbartol7 ай бұрын
@@lynn4780 Actually, no. One is GENERALIZING. One is SENSATIONALIZING.
@chrischika70267 ай бұрын
@@ericbartol no diifference but cope.
@ericbartol7 ай бұрын
@@chrischika7026 There is a difference. Check your dictionary.
@jamescorrall65357 ай бұрын
Maybe I'm being simplistic but its sounds like tackling homelessness would make people feel less anxious about crime whilst also getting people back into society and maybe even long term increasing tax revenue for the government if the get jobs etc So....do that?
@kenlandon61307 ай бұрын
NIBMYs won't let that happen on their watch.
@halleradam7 ай бұрын
Homelessness is a super complex issue, but yeah, greedy existing homeowners (same one afraid of crime) collude to use zoning to prevent new housing supply. NIMBYs are evil.
@ret2pop7 ай бұрын
It's not that easy because a lot of homeless people have permanent and expensive to treat mental health problems. But yes, that would work for everyone that doesn't fall in that category. As someone who knows someone who does work in this area, it's not as easy as you think.
@oddfox67767 ай бұрын
@@ret2popyeah but is still possible, itll be expensive but we could perhaps construct a better future for homeless people, and our nation in general!
@Stars-Mine7 ай бұрын
but then you are giving money to the "poors", we cant have that, hand outs and all that, for reasons
@Kessoku7 ай бұрын
why betterhelp
@longiusaescius25377 ай бұрын
@Kessoku hiragana in name?
@nv72136 ай бұрын
Because they need money
@notCAMD5 ай бұрын
Money
@furburp7 ай бұрын
unfortunate betterhelp jumpscare :/
@MondrianAtawiz7 ай бұрын
So glad that I have yt with sponsor blck
@samphelps8567 ай бұрын
Yes
@GiantJack897 ай бұрын
Worth noting, most Chicagoans don’t limit their definition of downtown to the neighborhood officially known as the loop. Many would include much more than that going through the north, northwest, west and south corridors. That is important to consider when evaluating responses that don’t supply a definition for “downtown”
@tylerbhumphries7 ай бұрын
I’m not from Chicago but I completely understand. I was born and raised in St. Louis. St. Louis has high crime rates but our rates wouldn’t be as high if they simply included the greater St. Louis metro area when reporting the crime rates. There are so many people who say they’re from St. Louis but really they’re from a county of St. Louis. You can’t have it both ways. Either it’s all St. Louis or it’s all separate. A lot of the counties are too small to support themselves so they don’t have their own paid police or fire departments but they still want to be counted as separate while receiving aid from the city. And even within the city limits, I see stuff like this happen all the time. North St. Louis has high poverty and high crime rates. But let a violent crime happen 2 or 4 miles away in a different part of the city and the news will still report it as North St. Louis crime even while telling you what street it happened on. It’s ridiculous.
@mrECisME7 ай бұрын
Crime can't go up if you make it not a crime.
@angiersj7 ай бұрын
being homeless is not a crime.
@christophers7077 ай бұрын
@@angiersj I don't think hes referring to that but some places have decriminalized certain crimes or have made police response non existent so reporting those crimes don't happen.
@joshieecs7 ай бұрын
which is why cops crimes aren't in the data, or else police would be the #1 source of crime, second only to bosses stealing from employees and landlords scamming renters.
@Digger-Nick7 ай бұрын
@@angiersj Homelessness has nothing to do with this conversation
@dystropyko7 ай бұрын
Obviously didnt watch the video, this is about violent crime specifically, that will always get punishment like homicide.
Arguably the biggest crime issue we ACTUALLY have. These crimes help create the conditions for most others.
@WasiuGiwa-ul4hs7 ай бұрын
How about gun violence, drug trafficking, gang violence
@alexisevanger74587 ай бұрын
@@WasiuGiwa-ul4hs again, largely precipitated by white collar crime.
@M-Soares7 ай бұрын
@@WasiuGiwa-ul4hs All have been going down since the 90s, that is explicitly stated in the video you clearly didn't watch.
@alexaramachandran73927 ай бұрын
Vox still being sponsored by betterhelp 🙄
@HercadosP7 ай бұрын
That's the real crime being committed here, sponsoring scams that actively ruin people's lives while calling it therapy
@kyle17517 ай бұрын
Did they do something wrong?
@jebkermen60877 ай бұрын
I say take the money, everyone here knows it's a scam.
@SadeN_07 ай бұрын
They may not be able to get out of an ongoing contract.
@alecjahn7 ай бұрын
@@jebkermen6087 That money comes from regular people like you and I.
@LeetHaxington7 ай бұрын
Weird how my car gets broken into if I leave it in public any weekend. It’s just like a perpetual free reign for criminals to steal cars. It’s like a daily problem. Police don’t do anything. Weird how I have multiple police reports. I guess I just imagined that. weird how insurance companies are just stealing money through auto charge and not providing any service or payout. Weird. I guess I’m just imagining that money leaving my account. I guess it’s just a silly imaginary hallucination I’m having.
@godofnothing4287 ай бұрын
Not a hallucination, just an anecdote, which is meaningless when we have data
@GameFuMaster7 ай бұрын
3:10 it's easy to say there's lower property crime when you don't bother doing a thing about it if it's under a certain value (California)
@DesertDweller17 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@Will-wb6nk7 ай бұрын
I live in the most dangerous town in Colorado, supposedly. It doesn't feel dangerous here, but our crime rate is almost as high as Detroit
@ElinWinblad3 ай бұрын
Can you leave the state with your front door unlocked swung open and side door and be honest for 3 days and nothing missing?
@suburbanhomestead7 ай бұрын
Add to that the fact that social media algorithms feed off of emotional reaction rather than rational reflection and we have the perfect storm for panic.
@arothmanmusic7 ай бұрын
Politics is all about perception. It doesn't matter whether people *are* safe - only whether they *feel* safe. Perceptions can only be swayed by statistics if the people trust those providing the data. Nobody trusts anyone who gives them stats that run counter to how they feel.
@DavidRGD2 ай бұрын
And now, barely anyone would believe it..
@posthocprior7 ай бұрын
More rigorous statistical analysis is needed. One example: use regression coefficients to quantify the relationship between mentions of crime in the news and the percentage of Americans who say crime is high. For instance, this could be done with time series analysis. One time series could be the percentage who say crime is high and the other time series could be the number of mentions of, say, homicide in national news broadcasts. Then, use a fast Fourier transform to get just the frequency domain of each time series. Now, find a regression fit between these two time series. The coefficient can tell you a lot about why people say crime is high. If, say, the coefficient is relatively constant. This means that people are always afraid. That is, their concerns fluctuate between various causes and motivations. If it’s highly variable, then more data analysis can be done to see what people are actually afraid of.
@poorlythoughoutdecisions7 ай бұрын
People in New York see empty shelves and everything behind plexiglass at Walgreens. That doesn't help.
@Ahzealion7 ай бұрын
There isn't a supply shortage in new york? there was during covid, but that was the same everywhere
@johnchessant30127 ай бұрын
The challenge is that people react most to visceral anecdotes, and in any place with a population in the millions, whether crime goes up or down, there will be enough crime every day to fill a segment on the news. So the only way to know is from dry statistics like the FBI data, which are easier to dismiss if people are already predisposed to believing the opposite.
@wagnerdias99087 ай бұрын
The distance between rate crime and rate crime perception also is amazing in Brazil, and this gap is aggravated by political speech distortions.
@cantbothernaming7 ай бұрын
So true, classic moral panic
@haitiancreolewithluciano7 ай бұрын
yep!
@Littlegoblinfatface7 ай бұрын
Literally fear mongering their viewers into using scam ai pseudoscience
@blazer95477 ай бұрын
Still high for a developed nation
@churblefurbles7 ай бұрын
@blazer9547 Much worse, even when fudged the numbers are further suppressed by the fact that the kids no longer play outside.
@frishter7 ай бұрын
Let's also talk about the moral panic of those claiming that democracy will end.
@jonathanleano18637 ай бұрын
To me, what’s missing was what people defined as crime. It did mention that some people thought homelessness was a crime but there are cities out there that aren’t reporting robberies or theft unless a certain dollar amount was stolen.
@nieselregen4207 ай бұрын
@tetrystI wouldn’t post that statement without knowing when these policies were introduced. Context matters and if that existed for 30 years it won’t have an effect on the statistics. It may be “missing” but doesn’t change the overall trend
@josh-cc9oy7 ай бұрын
Came here to point this out!
@enasan94067 ай бұрын
Wow, Betterhelp, I wasn't expecting an ad for a criminal organization in a video about crime
@ArpanShahM7 ай бұрын
Isn't it a fact that certain categories of crimes are not being registered as such?
@longiusaescius25377 ай бұрын
Yeah
@TheNewLooter7 ай бұрын
It's not all about violent crime though. People see the recent shoplifting meta and that nothing is being done to combat it. It's very likely that this area is heavily underreported because the police will not do anything anyway.
@stackhat86247 ай бұрын
So what you're saying is that when the stats don't say what you want you move goalposts and make it something else? Violent crime down? Make the conversation about shoplifting.
@domerame59137 ай бұрын
@@stackhat8624 People get uncomfortable when they find out they've been fooled by pixels on a screen. Hence the deflection all over the comments
@TheNewLooter7 ай бұрын
@@stackhat8624 No? The video itself keeps bringing up the Gallup poll and the question clearly is "is there more crime in the US than there was a year ago?". Crime, not violent crime. Then they keep bringing up "ummm ackshyually, violent crime is down". So the whole video is built on a non sequitur.
@shawnfoogle9207 ай бұрын
Cost of living ( or just surviving ) keeps going up every year. The obvious outcome is more homeless and crime. Just rent alone is waaaaaay too high, never affordable. But if people are shoplifting food. I hope the police do nothing because clearly the person doesn't need extra punishments for surviving.
@TheNewLooter7 ай бұрын
@@shawnfoogle920 The reality is, honest shoppers are the ones who cover the losses from shoplifting. The recent shoplifting trend has nothing to do with survival either. Letting petty crimes slide is not how you ever improve society.
@Davethreshold7 ай бұрын
I have lived in the same place for over 30 years. NEAR ME, it has increased very much. We never used to have robberies, carjackings, armed catalytic converter thefts, and MURDERS as much as we have now. It used to be mostly in Chicago. NOW it is moving more and more to suburbs like mine.
@jcehlert7 ай бұрын
The stats are out for this year and crime went...DOWN again! In fact, it dropped in every major category. Murders down 24% from LAST year. The lack of social programs and mental health care is more of an issue in our cities than is crime. Let's address those issues, and we have a chance to make crime an anomaly.
@DigSamurai7 ай бұрын
As long as the Republican presidential candidate uses fear to get votes the problem will get worse. Apparently a lot of Americans are gullible.
@chrisja19987 ай бұрын
Yup
@skillbopster7 ай бұрын
Because some of the police forces and cities have stopped reporting the numbers you clown!
@vietle81577 ай бұрын
What do you call it when police don't show up to your call to make a report?
@thisfooreallysaid7 ай бұрын
Laziness
@desmond-hawkins7 ай бұрын
Unsurprising.
@kingace61867 ай бұрын
You call that living in the hood. Crime is always higher in the hood becauses of the foundational systemic issues that created the hood.
@FlowersInHisHair7 ай бұрын
The result of perception-based public safety policies
@zahrahp5357 ай бұрын
But they show up when there is a literal corpse and murder rate has decreased.
@inline4smilez3 ай бұрын
We know crime is bad right now the news won’t tell the truth
@calebdunlap75667 ай бұрын
Something major of note that’s missing from this discussion is the fact that many, many police depts aren’t even reporting their crime stats anymore. And another thing to note- people just straight up are starting to not call the police when a crime is committed because of the massive distrust towards police and many police depts becoming incompetent at responding to crimes. I know from personal experience, since I used to live in a high crime area. When things happened to us (a guy pulling out a gun on us, someone trying to break into our car, someone across the street being beat to death), we used to call the police. They’d take 30-45 minutes to show up, and even when they did get there, there was a few occasions in which they threatened to ticket us for something random. When someone pulled a gun on my fiancée in the backyard, the police straight up said there was nothing they could do after taking 30 minutes to arrive and threatened to ticket us for our grass being too long. This was not a one time thing. We for the most part just stopped trying to call. Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking crime isn’t getting worse; it is. And it will continue to get worse as poverty keeps growing, life keeps getting more unaffordable, and capitalism keeps eating away at the American people here
@ElyonDominus7 ай бұрын
Police crime statistics are also completely useless. They arrest you when a crime happens and they arrest you when a crime doesn't happen. They shoot when they want a vacation and justify it after the fact. Utter trash and useless yet we worship pork so they're held up as being reputable.
@lana-jg4ho7 ай бұрын
i share the same sentiments.
@DreadedLad887 ай бұрын
This is a personal anecdote, with no facts supporting it. Youre actually are feeding directly into the point this video is making... There is a group of Americans that have been so terrified by news and fearmongering that you've lost touch with reality.
@Digger-Nick7 ай бұрын
It's not about police distrust, it's about the county not prosecuting and downplaying crime.
@Digger-Nick7 ай бұрын
@@DreadedLad88 Classic projection, inflate the problem and when anyone addresses it tell them they've lost touch with reality. You people are so lost
@bubbaowww5907 ай бұрын
One thing I would add to this is that Americans by instinct tend to blame...certain... groups of people for problems like crime. "Poverty doesn't cause crime, crime causes poverty," that kind of thing. And the comments you see if you scroll down about "13% doing 52%" - those people are getting at an idea that's very gross and shameful (they'd say it explicitly if it wasn't) but also kind of baked into the American character. The R word, baby! USA.
@aimeem7 ай бұрын
Yeah, surprised they didn't mention it.
@mgabriel26367 ай бұрын
@@aimeem party of Lincoln the emancipator, and all.
@webby22757 ай бұрын
These people are just not facing reality. Go to an impoverished rural area, like Appalachia, and look at how much crime there can be. But of course, that kind of stuff isn't on the news much, and it's generally less populated, so less have firsthand experience in impoverished rural areas so its less known.
@avonlave7 ай бұрын
I always try to get them to explicitly state what they think that stat shows. To me, it shows that Black Americans are more marginalized, poorer, confined to worse neighborhoods with worse schools and worse employment opportunities, can't afford good lawyers, and are targeted by police more. To racists, it shows that Black Americans are inherently more criminal and violent. But yeah they're too chickenshit to even come out and say it directly.
@brandon91727 ай бұрын
@webby2275 It's also generally more hidden in rural areas, just as homelessness and drug addiction is. People conflate their lack of knowledge of these things happening with a lack of them happening.
@CRANEREVIEWS7 ай бұрын
Stats? Change them Definitions? Change them Reports? Change them Calls? Ignore them See, no crime, ez
@murtadhaAlhusne7 ай бұрын
all of that and you still believe in what you want to believe and not the facts , idk what will help you then
@CRANEREVIEWS7 ай бұрын
@@murtadhaAlhusnethere is no war in Ba Sing Se
@comlain25137 ай бұрын
@@murtadhaAlhusne FACT: the tiananmen square massacre did NOT HAPPEN, if it did, WHY does the state media say OTHERWISE? CHECKMATE MAGATARD
@Digger-Nick7 ай бұрын
@@murtadhaAlhusne Ironic when you bigots call people "racist" for talking about said facts
@ElinWinblad3 ай бұрын
@@murtadhaAlhusne the account looks legit. I don’t see any crime there and there’s no crime where I live so it must be true.
@JC199997 ай бұрын
Americans are wrong about crime increasing, but the levels we're at now are still pretty appalling when compared to other developed/affluent nations. My city's top 20 globally in crime index, but if you ask the folks who live here, they'll tell you that it's not so bad. And in one sense they're right; people still work, and love, and life goes on. But in another sense, they're just accustomed to living in one of the most violent cities in the world. And there's a lot of US cities like that. Americans might be wrong about the details, but they're right in thinking that we could do better.
@Ahzealion7 ай бұрын
I think most the issue comes from the fact that a lot of the platforms that exist are almost promising a "return" to lower crime rates; rather than actually doing something to decrease the crime rates we've always had. Crime is decreasing steadily, but since people believe its increasing, they are looking for a return to the past where they *feel* crime was not as bad- when it in fact was much worse.
@sharongillesp7 ай бұрын
Most of us have a FEELING that crime is up while not experiencing crime at all. Not themselves nor their neighbors have witnessed or experienced crime. So I can have a feeling that crime is high, while my own and neighbors experience is very low.
@shawnfoogle9207 ай бұрын
Cost of living keeps going up every year. Obviously crime and homelessness will rise.
@DesertDweller17 ай бұрын
Its simple, at least in some parts of California, if you call the police the just won't show up...and they don't consider certain things "crimes" anymore.
@Katxune7 ай бұрын
Respect to the police though. Instead of going after neigblhbor disputes they're out there catching the real bad guys.
@ElinWinblad3 ай бұрын
@@Katxunewhat’s a real bad guy? That doesn’t exist.
@Katxune3 ай бұрын
@@ElinWinblad I'd rather police be spending time on active shooter threats or murders than petty shoplifting or traffic violations. Threats to life are higher priority than the rest. I do also think reducing funds to the police to allocate to social services would be even better. Police aren't really able to deal with mental health or homelessness so creating a department to focus exclusively using police money would be better
@mikami57997 ай бұрын
so only violent crime count as crime? Robbery and theft don’t count?
@barrettleider17146 ай бұрын
If you count crimes against property or resources, you have to include every corporation as a thief and criminal
@ccityplanner12177 ай бұрын
Trust is on the decline. Crime statistics are going down because people trust institutions less and the act of reporting a crime is in itself an act of trust in an institution.
@josephwheeler17 ай бұрын
This is true. When I experienced violent harassment in a big city I didn't report it. I bet most people don't report crimes. Even calling them to ask if they've ever experienced a crime is really only going to catch the big crimes or recent crimes. I don't want to have to submit paperwork and have my Life Disturbed if nothing's going to come from it.
@annagalinna85877 ай бұрын
I agree. Also nowadays police want to see action happening personally and if unfortunately they come after call and situation calmed down, they not going to do literally nothing, and it's if they are good guys. Same with institutions, I can many times hear how my neighbour don't like other nathionaties, my as well, behave weird, but because of law it's almost impossible to get hard evidence that this person is racist.
@ccityplanner12177 ай бұрын
@@annagalinna8587 : That's because being racist isn't a crime. A crime is something that you do, not something that you are.
@Ebstarrunner7 ай бұрын
Crime stats are going down because states are no longer giving their crime data/stats to FBI and other institutions.... You can look it up. You can look up which states haven't been giving their data/stats..
@subparnaturedocumentary5 ай бұрын
fear sells, especially when for some odd reason the people most scared live no where near or even go to the areas there scared of and cite in all their talking points
@lexrothschild23247 ай бұрын
yeah , stores are just shutting down because of how "safe" things are lol
@shawnfoogle9207 ай бұрын
that's greed tbh. Lose a small percentage of the high profits, leave
@ikeekieeki7 ай бұрын
myth. retailers admitted to exaggerating the impact of shoplifting on branch closures
@blondie72407 ай бұрын
I live in Seattle and my brother lives in Portland. Crime is definitely not dropping. We both witness assaults every other weak. Crime is down because it’s not being counted any more.
@gawi44056 ай бұрын
They are using media fearmongering about crime to cover up their bad business decisions. The right wing media was flipping out about like three Targets in NYC closing, meanwhile they've been taking the city by storm the past 6-7 years. They just guested wrong on where the gentrification was going to happen.
@barrettleider17146 ай бұрын
@@blondie7240you can’t claim this based on two people’s personal accounts. You see that studies are cited in the video right?
@dipdip72507 ай бұрын
If crime wasn’t a problem you wouldn’t need to convince people of the fact
@CristianmrWuno7 ай бұрын
@@BuildinWings Ad Hominem, boogeyman doesnt exist, crime does and it's more than confirmable when going to major cities
@CivilizedWasteland7 ай бұрын
@@BuildinWings people also believe the covid vaccine to be safe and effective
@Digger-Nick7 ай бұрын
@@BuildinWings "There is no war in Ba Sing Se"
@habitsofsuccess43226 ай бұрын
It would've been great if you connected the crime rate to the poverty rate. Crime almost always goes in line with Poverty and poverty is obviously affected by many things.
@NormalcyMan7 ай бұрын
5:11 and there you go. The majority and rise in crime isn't being report/covered in these neighbourhoods of "disadvantage" people. So what people are experiencing isn't what's been shown because of what it might implicate for yourself. Not to say the opposite with fear mongering about crime is honest either. But we need a neutral, honest coverage of crime.
@christopherv4314 ай бұрын
Wonder why vox doesn't talk about the reclassification of crimes and what actually constitutes one in different areas given the legislation around this topic. I can only assume why.
@MichaelKocha7 ай бұрын
Why are you guys working with Better Help?? You've lost some respect here.
@MichaelKocha7 ай бұрын
@@MrRowskey Honestly why am I not surprised...
@Digger-Nick7 ай бұрын
They're downplaying crime and you're worried about Betterhelp? Amazing
@seeqr7 ай бұрын
Gotta say, that intro was absolute FIRE 🔥
@MrLuffy91317 ай бұрын
You realize people are moving out of San Francisco
@Chris-ng8du7 ай бұрын
conflating homelessness with criminality is very telling
@DesmondKarani7 ай бұрын
I'm not American but from what I have read and observed about Americans, I can guarantee you that race is a significant factor in how most of them feel about homelessness and crime.
@yulin847 ай бұрын
@@DesmondKaraniwhat?
@drksideofthewal7 ай бұрын
@@yulin84 I thought that much was common knowledge.
@Digger-Nick7 ай бұрын
@@DesmondKarani Homelessness no, crime yes. Specific races commit insanely disproportionate amounts of violent crime
@Komentujebomoge327 ай бұрын
Why most of the links are displaying: that the page was not found, or some are not on the topic?
@tarico44367 ай бұрын
Algo is our friend, but why did crime drop a huge amount in the early 90s? Please add to my tiny list. One, many more cameras near downtown streets and at businesses were installed in the late 80s and early 90s, and two, DNA evidence became admissible in our courtrooms in 1987. News that your DNA could now lead to your conviction gradually spread after 1987; this prompted a lot fewer false accusations as well as cut back on crime. Again, please add to my list. What else caused this, for instance, halving of our unaliving rate?
@antoinet.68957 ай бұрын
democratization of cell phones and rapid improvement in first aid care (we call it SAMU and SMUR in France & Belgium, don't know what's the american equivalent) over the same period as well.
@user-ox6gs9kl3f7 ай бұрын
all depends on the local PD and prosecutors. for example here in Detroit police stopped arresting people for many crimes. and prosecutors stopped prosecuting many crimes. so of course "crime rate" is "down" people's feeling is more accurate. one walking in downtown can feel safe/unsafe. many criminals just stopped being arrested here in detroit
@pinkopansy7 ай бұрын
the need to always feel safe being entirely disconnected from whether or not a given person is safe is so wild. I'm an anxious person but at least I know that I project anxiety onto stuff and can try to course correct.
@CJTallon7 ай бұрын
Yes it is important to stay informed. You should stay informed about who sponsors your channel or maybe they just pay that well.
@ravanadevadas37707 ай бұрын
there is no crime citizen. there is nothing to be concerned about
@jiachengwu41857 ай бұрын
Nothing to see here; please disperse 😂
@Ahzealion7 ай бұрын
I love how so much of public discourse is about how "they" don't let the outside opinions happen, when literally the main conversations happening are about whatever the "they" is lol
@shankhanilghosh55712 ай бұрын
Crime is up tho in the age of surveillance no one can escape justice but still crime is relatively high.
@eyesburning7 ай бұрын
What about car break-ins in let's say...San Francisco? xD
@fredip85947 ай бұрын
really like the editing in vox videos generally, but the bit at the beginning with the overlapping news casters stood out to me this episode.
@Disco-Terry7 ай бұрын
It only counts towards the stats if people report it, no point even reporting thefts, vandalism etc. because it's just ignored.
@topapo36617 ай бұрын
source: trust me bro
@longiusaescius25377 ай бұрын
Liberal replies ignore Pittsburgh police literally saying they won't do property crime
@skillbopster7 ай бұрын
@@BuildinWings Complete and utter deflection.
@Digger-Nick7 ай бұрын
@@topapo3661 It's happening in major cities right now with theft especially...
@sethjaffe90957 ай бұрын
I used to live in the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City. I did not start getting break in attempts to my ground floor apartment until 2020. It has legitimately getting worse along with the homeless problem since then.
@JVR20197 ай бұрын
I want to help the poor and the homeless. The fear in me makes me worried about the homeless on drugs, acting violently without even intending to. Could also cover the statistics on drugs in the same areas which is an important aspect of this topic?
@CoordinatedCarry7 ай бұрын
This is all well & good. Now if Americans would stop stealing anything not nailed down & stop vandalizing EV chargers that would be great.
@Mwoods22727 ай бұрын
There is no stealing going on, didn't you watch the video. Crime is down to almost historic lows, you are listening to the fear mongers.
@SammyxSweetheart.027 ай бұрын
0:42 2:21 Violent crime & property crime3:00 Crime IN YOUR AREA 4:05 4:25 Chicago5:10 6:25 Everyday gun violence doesnt make headlines, only the ones that happen in wealthier/tourist areas 6:35 Homelessness ≠ Crime7:01 ______ ❌BetterHelp5:43❌
@Leonard-td5rn5 ай бұрын
Crime is underreported because police have been defunded many felonies now treated like traffic tickets People think reporting crime is futile.Making crime legal does not make it go away
@tHebUm187 ай бұрын
3:34 What an amazing graph. It is entirely unsurprising that the US populace as a whole thinks we're in an endless upward spiral of crime whilst the reality is it's dramatically declined almost every year in that graph.
@Meagan-Renee7 ай бұрын
Please don't endorse BetterHelp. Their practices are on a spectrum from unethical to abusive for both the professionals who work with them and those seeking support.
@nieselregen4207 ай бұрын
The same is happening in Germany. While we Europeans like to laugh about America, we are going down the same path. Social Media and the way media reports is ruining our society
@rrai19997 ай бұрын
Oh don't worry, we have alot to laugh at you about- your vanishing forests, your refusal to use nuclear power and starting up more and more coal plants, I can go on and on..
@nieselregen4207 ай бұрын
@@rrai1999 Yep but to be fair, still going better than the US lol
@alexbanks95107 ай бұрын
Better help? Disappointed
@EnderZorlu17 ай бұрын
Why?
@daviddouillet41387 ай бұрын
Fun fact: El Salvador is considered safer than the US.
@AddieWalker-wb6lt7 ай бұрын
For every 100,000 Americans, 363 are in prison. For every 100,000 El Salvadorans, 1,086 are in prison. When more than 1% of your population is in prison, I think that's a bigger problem than a slightly higher violent crime rate.
@jardy6307 ай бұрын
dawg how are you of all people pushing betterhelp? seriously, you should know better
@HeiMiBR7 ай бұрын
What about "nonviolent" crimes that actually shut down businesses? This video seems to avoid this?
@barrettleider17146 ай бұрын
What businesses are being shut down? Studies showed store closures like Target’s were due to inventory mismanagement and not shoplifting
@barrettleider17146 ай бұрын
And why is non-violent in quotes?
@stephaniepantera7 ай бұрын
great example of how irrelevant statistics are to individual experience. "CrIme in America" is the last thing im thinking about when there are drugs and guns all over my once safe and beautiful city
@dontmisunderstand60417 ай бұрын
What are you talking about? You literally give examples of the crimes you're thinking about after claiming not to be thinking about "Crime in America" while thinking about them.
@freddyfrug39407 ай бұрын
Despite sentencing guidelines which are harsher, and incarceration rates which have been higher, the murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate in Louisiana has been higher than that in any other state over the last 34 straight years according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report. That's true because Louisiana has been tough on crime, but not so tough on murder over that span.
@MarkSuckerburg-dt6yo7 ай бұрын
Except crimes as you said go unreported, you looked at homicides but I am more worried about being robbed or Sa, theft, other property crimes. then being murdered. Police does not even show up anymore in some cases so where do those numbers go. Manditory crime reporting and online report filing should help with that. Also really better help that is not a great look to have them as a sponsor.
@MarkSuckerburg-dt6yo7 ай бұрын
@@BuildinWings what i am saying is that people are using incomplete and known faulty data to make conclusions then the conclusions are kinda worthless.
@judewakefield72137 ай бұрын
@@MarkSuckerburg-dt6yoMurders are rarely unreported, and they are dropping.
@MarkSuckerburg-dt6yo7 ай бұрын
@@judewakefield7213 did you just read till the first comma ?
@CivilizedWasteland7 ай бұрын
@@judewakefield7213 except they aren't, they are dropping this year and last year, the general trend is still exploding from 2014 levels.
@kwanarchive6 ай бұрын
Policing is different now. There's almost no point to turn up to a robbery after it happened. What do you think they should do? Dust for fingerprints? Nowadays, police is just about gathering data and finding underlying trends to see what is behind thefts. Having police make a show of turning up after a robbery does nothing to reduce theft. And nowadays, if the problem is systemic (rising rents, cost of living, etc), what can the police do about it?
@RanOutOnARail7 ай бұрын
13/52
@stynkanator7 ай бұрын
In America feelings don’t care about your facts
@ElyonDominus7 ай бұрын
If anything we care too much about feelings and not enough about facts.
@AdorianDelmore7 ай бұрын
That's why they say in my country when they don't want to listen. "You are as blind as an American"
@BrokeredHeart7 ай бұрын
I work in a downtown office that is part of a larger business district. With so many companies and government offices switching to remote or hybrid work, this has generated a lot of vacant leases and a significant drop in daily pedestrians and patrons to local businesses. Not only has this increased visibility of our homeless crisis and abundant drug use that was already there prior to pandemic lockdowns, it has led to an increase in car collisions and cycling accidents because people feel more confident driving at higher speeds when there are fewer people, but still high volumes of vehicular traffic. It's not an increase in crime, it's this void being filled, often by people who see this space as transitory, a place to pass through but not stay in, not interacting with the neighborhood blocks outside the confines of their car. Our city has been trying to devise ways of attracting new people to come to the downtown core, offering more hospitality and personal care services, building new apartment complexes close to major transit hubs, and investing in public goods like a new mid-sized music venue, and a brand new public library and digital archive. We're still a few years away from seeing what that will do for the improvement of our downtown sector, while still needing to address the social and moral failings of substandard care for our most vulnerable - the elderly, the unhoused, the disabled, and the very young. Offering them more opportunities to be seen as integral parts of our city's fabric while ensuring they have reliable access to the services and goods they need will hopefully revitalize my home city.
@gubwhdjnvkanc7 ай бұрын
vox should know better... vet your sponsors, or risk your credibility
@teddyghioto7 ай бұрын
They dont have any
@swankydreams7295 ай бұрын
You work for 40yrs to have $1m in your retirement, Meanwhile some people are putting just $10k in a meme coin for just few months and now they are multi millionaires. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life
@loganv337 ай бұрын
You're telling me crime is down in downtowns and yet I just saw a real estate developer / reality TV host convicted of 34 felonies in a downtown NYC courthouse.
@FreddieVee7 ай бұрын
Public misconception is nothing new. A few months before the 2016 election, I met 2 men at Walmart. One was born in the same month as I during WW2 and the other was younger than our grandchildren. They both believed crime, taxes and immigration were at each an all-time highs. Actually, crime was at a 50 year low, taxes were less than 50% of what it was when the older gentleman and I were in elementary school, and immigration was net negative.
@whatisahandle2217 ай бұрын
I still am flabbergasted that anyone thinks getting a pay raise that would put your salary just slightly about the (progressive) next tax bracket means you would take home less money. Everyone should have to fill out a 1040 as part of their annual high school history/civics class.
@ElinWinblad3 ай бұрын
@@whatisahandle221 back when I worked as a cashier and they gave us our quarterly bonus and the one time I worked 120 hours in two weeks I was so excited only to learn that I was in a new tax bracket and I made less on those two paychecks - it was very noticeable as at the time I was poor