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by stickfigure 272 days ago
I get that you listen to fact-free news. But violent crime statistics don't lie and they show that you're much more likely to be victimized in a red state.

I live in California and no, it is not "well understood" that police do not care about thefts. I watched police catch shoplifters right in the middle of SF. As always, cities full of people aren't perfect, but don't imagine for a second that red states have it better.

Tell me, where do you live? I'd like to know what your direct experience of California is.
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mothballed 272 days ago
If you look at say homicide rate it looks to matches closer to where black people are than by political party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/In...

The lowest or next to lowest is New Hampshire.... which is a red state with constitutional carry, very few gun restrictions, no background checks in private transfers, and one of the whitest states in the union next to Vermont (which I think is close to if not #2). NH is red and VT is blue IIRC.

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dmitrygr 272 days ago
> Tell me, where do you live? I'd like to know what your direct experience of California is.

5 years in mountain view, CA; 1 in santa calara, CA; 4 more in mountain view, CA with frequent trips into SF proper; 1 in SF proper; 4 more in mountain view, CA. Eventually I got tired of broken car windows and police who never came to investigate. Got tired of hoboes jumping at me with knives and police not responding to calls when i reported it. I left. So the last 3 years - Austin, TX

And before you try to claim this is bullshit, i still own a house in CA in MTV and public records easily prove that and the rest of locations too.

That's the funniest/saddest part about your comment - i do not need to listen to any "fact-free news" I have the scar from the hobo knife and the voice recordings of police saying "so what do you want us to do? go file a report online, give it to your insurance". It took a while after leaving to finally understand how much I was simply putting up with and considered "part of modern life". The Stockholm Syndrome took a year or so to wear off. Now, when forced to go back to norcal, I notice it a lot more.

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