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My answer would be that it is a control mechanism.

The last thing the government would ever want is ZERO crime. Their systems of control rely on the general population being afraid.

I used to work for a company making high security locking systems, after Set 11th 2001 we had a meeting in which we were told by gleeful looking management that business in the security market was now going to soar!

Still, it's only 3000 lives isn't it, let's get on with profiteering!

I left shortly afterward.

comment by funnyoldgame (U17347)
posted 3 minutes ago
My answer would be that it is a control mechanism.

The last thing the government would ever want is ZERO crime. Their systems of control rely on the general population being afraid.

I used to work for a company making high security locking systems, after Set 11th 2001 we had a meeting in which we were told by gleeful looking management that business in the security market was now going to soar!

Still, it's only 3000 lives isn't it, let's get on with profiteering!

I left shortly afterward.
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Disgusting viewing when you see things like Rogue Traders or Watchdog who highlight security companies' sales people scaring the elderly into buying their product.

By and large it's probably - in fact, almost certainly - an artificial construct. I'm not expert on crime figures but in general, purely statistical data is often misleading. For example, if (again, i don't know) crime rates are now higher than they were say, 30 years ago, is that necessarily because there is more crime? Or might it be a) a natural occurrence due to a higher population - so, crimes rates per capita need to be factored in, and b) that various advancements in technology and science mean that less crime goes unpunished/unrecorded in the past...?

Ultimately, power and elite institutions etc... focus on the crimes of people as a method for diverting attention away from their own crimes, which happen to be much more vast and destructive to both people and planet than anything some lone loon you read about in the paper could ever even dream of.

comment by UnitedRedMacca (U2024)
posted 44 minutes ago
Crime has a monumental affect on general population

Back when I was young (in the juniors), we would play out miles away from our house and even locking doors and windows wasn't something that happened as a religion.

Nowadays, kids need to be kept in eyesight and houses need to be like fort knox


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Macca, how many of us had laptops, iPhones, flat screens, tablets in them days though? The could have had my Raleigh Grifter if they could carry it, and my six million dollar man toy and pink panther car.

But yeah your right, we're getting too protective with our kids now, driven by media scaremongering

I should add, that when im referring to 'power and elite institutions' that I am including corporate and state media, like national newspapers, broadcasters (including the BBC) etc... These are corporations, run for profit (or close collusion with the state), so naturally reporting reflects the interests of power. there are innumerable excellent studies and various analysis on this topic that more than support that. In fact it's not really up for discussion at this point as it's as close as a truism as you can get without actually being one simply due to overwhelming evidence. So as others eluded to, the media play a huge role in shaping our perception of the world.

The could have had my Raleigh Grifter if they could carry it,
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i had one of those, it weighed a fecking ton and i couldnt peddle in red gear

comment by Earl Brutus (U1449)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by UnitedRedMacca (U2024)
posted 44 minutes ago
Crime has a monumental affect on general population

Back when I was young (in the juniors), we would play out miles away from our house and even locking doors and windows wasn't something that happened as a religion.

Nowadays, kids need to be kept in eyesight and houses need to be like fort knox


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Macca, how many of us had laptops, iPhones, flat screens, tablets in them days though? The could have had my Raleigh Grifter if they could carry it, and my six million dollar man toy and pink panther car.

But yeah your right, we're getting too protective with our kids now, driven by media scaremongering
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You also have to factor in how harder it is today to commit certain crimes given our far more security concious mindsets

Robbing a house now for example is far more difficult. In the old days, all you needed was a hand drill.

Robbing a house now for example is far more difficult. In the old days, all you needed was a hand drill.
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I didn't know that

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The last thing the government would ever want is ZERO crime. Their systems of control rely on the general population being afraid.

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What systems of contol?