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“It will go away, no harm done” is your stance? Well, there is harm done, if not only on the societies feeling of sanity and security. What was the purpose of that action? To seed shock and “ruffle some feathers”, sow disbalance under the coat of “shaking sleeping people up”.

“No harm done”? Well, then let me waterboard you, hit you, hit your wife and children. The blue specks will go away, no harm done. Your psychological effects? They will go away, seek therapy. You’re still less affected people than the society.

Of course this was sarcasm. But think about what stance you just took and reflect.

https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/ocindex-2023/

This study from 2023 states:

Global context As already outlined, one of the main findings of the Index is that levels of criminality are increasing worldwide, while resilience measures are falling short of meeting the threat. That critical gap, between growing levels of global criminality and the sustainable policy and civil society measures needed to address it, is widening. This deficit can be better understood when analyzed against the backdrop of a more fragmented and unstable global order."

They also offer a 246 page PDF detailing their findings.

More on the issuer on Wikipedia.

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“peaceful activism” which needed police intervention? Tell me.

Personally I think it is much more likely the potesters did something wrong and/or illegal (like demanding another Intifada, which so called pro Palestine demonstrations often do). Police force would probably prefer a day off or doing something less dangerous than intervening.

People and parents bringing their children to such a kind of demonstration are willingly endangering them. Why do they bring their kids? It is irresponsible and in bad faith. Maybe because they know they can later pull the “oh noes, they hurt my poor child” card.

Sounds to me like the “powerful speeches” contained something which is forbidden in your country, forcing the police to act. Maybe Hamas propaganda? Israel should be removed from the map?

Hm, it also depends on the need to fill out a survey. Usually, I assume, if everything is alright, people would be less inclined to fill out a survey than when they feel the impulse to vocalize their needs. So when things do not run well, I assume one would get more negative reviews. This also skews statistics…

Nevertheless it seems to me people feel less safe and thus are inclined to voice this, which results in a more negative outcome. So, yes, I assume things feel worse, backed by the survey results and the need to attend a survey at all.

If the feeling is detached from the objective statistics is a more difficult question because also how crime statistics are created. For example the situation of no justicial force at all, therefore no one there to handle crime situations and reports, therefore officially no crime, because none can be and none have been measured.

And like I said in another post, if society feels unsafe this is probably equally bad or even worse than the actual crime levels. A terrified society with no actual crimes is more disfunctional than a society which is wholesome and happy but everyday some people get robbed or stabbed. In the latter case society still “works” and is functional, in the former everything gets “tainted” with serious effects on mental health, expenses and productivity, alongside with social interactions and the overall feeling of cohesion.

Thanks for digging, so it’s probably objectively skewed but subjectively correct.

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/country_result.jsp?country=France

1. I was referring to the line “Crime increasing in the past 5 years” which reads to me not being felt. I don’t know if you just overlooked it.

2. Even if it’s only FELT, a society living in constant terror is functional and desirable because… why?

3. How would you restore faith to a shaken society full of fears (“high fears” in above sources) of becoming a victim of crime?

Society has objectively gotten less violent. Morality and ethics are subjective, so I’m not going to touch on those. Every violent crime metric is, year over year, decreasing, and it’s not because of the boot on our collective necks.

I don’t know where you get your violence crime metric from but it differs from my sources, which all over the board indicate an increase of crime in the last 5 years: https://www.numbeo.com/crime/country_result.jsp?country=France

Dude, you chose the wrong way.

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I for one am glad we here have the police forces and am honestly terrified by the comments in this thread here. I mean, okay, maybe in your country or local sphere you have more corrupt police forces than, say, over here in the middle of Europe, but I dread the day police would be on strike or get understaffed even more.

Society even here has gotten so violent and just morally and ethically bad in the last years I perceive the police forces as one of the few stabilizing instances left. Social engagement nowadays only gets you into trouble and I have been mugged more than once in the last years, whereas this never has been occurred before that. On the streets you can see gang-like groups of “young males” roaming the streets, littering everywhere, making especially the women feel unsafe and bad. Society has got a punch and it has become more difficult to strike up a conversation or feel safe or just well when in public. Police? Hell yeah. We definitely need more. And better judges which don’t let illdoers back on the streets. Society is no battlefield. There are rules to obey for the better of everyone.

As a fellow gamer said: “Y’all may kick and scream, you’re still the minority. Cope, loser.”

Seriously, what are you doing here, blaming? Deal with what a large portion of people voted for. Look forward, find solutions, act.

Don’t let them see the other facts… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Africa

Vergiss es, die Leute hier sind scheinen echt zugenagelt und wenig bereit, über vorgefasste Meinungen und eingeprägte Werte hinaus zu denken.

Schade. Früher™ hat man miteinander diskutiert, Ansichten ausgetauscht und ist vielleicht mit der gleichen Meinung wie vorher aber angereichert durch neue Sichtweisen auseinandergegangen und hat sich sogar noch für das gute Gespräch bedankt. Oder hat seine Meinung geändert oder Erkenntnisse außerhalb des eigenen Erlebens hinaus erhalten. Heute ist mehr “wir und die” als es jemals war.

Ich habe im Bekanntenkreis einen seit Jahren überzeugten AfD-Wähler (als es noch um den Euro Rettungsschirm ging) und einen recht extremen Linken, dessen Wahl-o-Mat die AfD auf den allerletzten Platz setzt. Beide diskutieren natürlich bis die Hütte qualmt aber gehen zusammen wandern, nach der Arbeit einen heben und sind insgesamt echt gute Kumpel. Sind beide 50+. Ich selbst bin irgendwo dazwischen und kann daher aus beiden Seiten schöpfen, mal stimme ich dem einen eher zu, mal dem anderen.