Most of human history is the history of elites, of kings, queens, princes, prelates, magistrates, potentates, knights, earls, and squires, all of whom subordinated and exploited everyday people.
This is so true, People of power are always known and they are seen as very powerful, while they exploit people that have no power. That is the sad reality.
Race must be addressed in a form that can deal with its complexity and irrationality.
This is something that still matter in todays society. Race has never disappeared. There has always been judgements of people being superior or inferior than others. To the extend that it has caused hate crimes to occur to a certain group.
tradition is not something you inherit—if you want it, you must sacrifice for it. In other words, tradition must be fought for. . . .
I actually agree with this, people get to choose if they want to inherit a tradition. Family members might tell them about that tradition, but it is up to the individual to actually fight for it or to pass it on for generations!
I refer to the struggle for decency and dignity, the struggle for freedom and democracy.
I believe that this sentence is very strong and like in the previous paragraphs it ties back to the idea that individuals care a lot about themselves instead of looking at the problems in Society. One of the major struggle was freedom and democracy. African Americans were seen as inferior and they were once slaves that had no freedom.
iolent crime would drop this year by 0.6 percent and that the overall crime rate would fall by 1.8 percent
I don't think this is true, Because crimes are increasing
Current data suggests, however, that violence may be tailing off in 2017, at least moderately.
In 2017 crimes have lowered a bitt.
In Chicago and elsewhere, murder victims, as well as those arrested on murder charges, were disproportionately young, African-American and male,
Why people of color. Is it because they have less patience?
police shootings that prompted rioting or other civil disturbances are Chicago, Baltimore, Charlotte, St. Louis and Milwaukee.
Police shootings and rioting occur in Chicago etc.
distrust between heavily policed communities and local police. It’s not a coincidence that cities that have crime increases have also had problems between communities and the police.”
Problems between the police and communities.
particular area will be free to continue committing crimes with little fear of arrest.
So people that commit crimes don't really fear being arrested. Is it because police officers don't so their jobs?
The shootings, many of which have been captured on video over the last three years, have been widely disseminated via the news media and on the internet.
the Media shows all the crimes.
handguns, poverty and social isolation, warring gangs involved in the drug trade, and police officers who are questioning fewer people and making fewer arrests for fear of being criticized by superiors and civil rights groups.
So that may be causes that crimes are increasing.
There are pockets of increased violence across the country that demand an increased response from all levels of government,”
The government should do something to stop crimes. More protection?
directed prosecutors to more aggressively charge those arrested, while blaming illegal immigration for much of the rise in violence.
Do they think that immigrants are causing crimes to increase?
hat the nation is in the grip of a crime wave that requires more arrests and harsher penalties, including for nonviolent crimes like drug possession.
Harsher penalties. And more arrests.
“What you worry about is that the trend is broken, and the numbers are going to go back up. A 20 percent increase in homicides over the past two years is not trivial. We’ve got what looks like a serious problem here.”
A serious problem and people should do something to stop rises in homicides.
1980s and 1990s, last year was the first time violent crime increased in consecutive years since 2005 and 2006,
A totally rise of crimes compared to the 1980 and 1990.
A total of 17,250 people were murdered in 2016
A lot of murders. Is it because of the Covid lockdown.
Violent crime, including homicides, rose for the second consecutive year in 2016, driven by increases in a few urban centers
Homicides and crimes increase. Why is that happening?
Doing so this year, however, makes clear how little we know about the drivers of crime in the United States as well as the desperate need for better and more timely data.
Data helps a lot since we get to see how crimes change.
loss of trust in law enforcement can cause citizens to be reluctant to contact the police, and people may be more likely to take matters into their own hands to resolve disputes.
totally agree, sometimes the police doesn't corporate and people do their own thing.
Although the F.B.I. reports murder clearance data, that reporting is slow and often incomplete.
Does the Fbi not want to report the actual crimes that occur?
If that is one of the causes, then we might see those tensions ease as lockdowns are relieved,” he said.
So they believe that if there is no more lockdowns then no more domestic violence?
“All those things are things that we would expect to lead to higher rates of violence
Violence occurs because people are in quarantine "locked inside"
Identifying the trend in murder statistics is relatively easy. Understanding why it is happening and what can be done about it is much harder.
This article is being informative and telling people to be more aware.
big increase in murder nationally while violent crime falls is almost unheard
At least violent crimes have decreased.
additional 11 cities provide year-to-date murder data. Murder is up 21.8 percent in all 36 cities with 2020 data through at least May
Murder has been increasing non-stop
New York City experienced as much gun violence in the month of June as it has seen this year.”
Experiencing more crimes in New York!
Homicides usually rise in the summer, which coincided this year with many people emerging from pandemic lockdown.
Is its because people tend to go more out?
Crime in the report is divided into violent crime — murder, aggravated assault, rape and robbery — and property crime, composed of theft, auto theft and burglary.
Crimes are divided depending if its violent , rape or assault.
Property crime is down in 18 of the 25 sampled cities, and violent crime is down in 11 of them, but murder is up in 20 of the cities.
More evidence on hoe crimes decreased and increased in cities.
murder in these 25 cities is up 16.1 percent in relation to last year.
Murdered rised in the 25 states. Is it because maybe some crimes weren't reported.
murder in these 25 cities is up 16.1 percent in relation to last year.
Murder increased, is it because some crimes haven't been reported?
violent crime down 2 percent.
Violent crimes have decreased. I want to know further information in what 25 states this happened too.
Overall crime is down 5.3 percent in 25 large American cities relative to the same period in 2019,
Crime is down 5.3. My question is how did it occur?
murders are up sharply, while other violent crimes have decreased.
We can see that murders have increased while violent crimes have gone down.
Thinking, Fast and Slow.
I found this interesting because Individuals sometimes think fast or slow in some situations. Sometimes different tasks need more thinking than others. Some decisions can be made right away with not a lot of thinking made.
“We would all like to have a warning bell that rings loudly whenever we are about to make a serious error,” Kahneman writes, “but no such bell is available.”
I think everyone would want to be warn whenever we are about to do something wrong. But no one is perfect everyone tends to make errors and we learn from them. We learn from errors and next time we are more aware of things. I think we all want a warning bell!
he whole idea of cognitive biases and faulty heuristics—the shortcuts and rules of thumb by which we make judgments and predictions
I actually read a book senior year where we learned about how people think unconsciously sometimes and judge people by their appearance and also we learned about biases. Everyone can make judgements about anything or someone without being correct. Predictions can be correct or fail sometimes but people when judging or making prediction they are taking a risk of being incorrect or correct.