Women are the primary readers of the true crime genre, of which I am one. Of the stories I've read a majority of female victims are prostitutes or drug addicts or frequent places where crime is more likely, i.e. bars, dangerous neighborhoods, and large blue cities. I'm ever mindful of my surroundings and I don't take careless chances, but my concern about being a victim of violent crime is negligible.
Status competition among males is the primary driver of individual and group violence. It should hardly shock us that the violent competitors for status mostly murder one another.
One reason I've never been convinced that drug legalization is the one cool trick that would solve crime is that for most violent criminals the violent tournament for status is the entire point. If drugs weren't available as the pretext for the game, something else would be.
Your average street dealer could make more money at McDonald's, but he would feel like a loser in a uniform taking orders.
Status competition is doing some heavy lifting to cover violent and degenerate behavior that seems much more linked to base desires (anger, envy, greed) coupled with a lack of emotional control and high time preference.
Note also that the most violent males tend to be young. Young males have undeveloped frontal lobes, the part of the brain that does emotional regulation and strategic planning. The testosterone surging through them does not cause violence directly, it makes them extremely sensitive to hierarchy. Craving status, they act out to gain status. The presence of older males in their lives attentuates this problem. When the socialization that guides them through this dangerous phase of life (for example manhood rituals in traditional cultures) disappears, there are always problems. This is a well-studied phenomenon and it explains, for example, why so many ISIS members from the west had backgrounds in gangs and came from fatherless homes. https://www.polemology.net/p/status-monkey-of-men-mankind-and
This sort of data analysis serves a very useful function in validating social phenomena that observant/perceptive/unblinkered people often know (or suspect) intuitively anyway...... but run contrary to the prevailing selectively myopic MSM narratives. So well done here!
(Fair-minded people will, of course, also be pleased in the event that the data disabuses them of their intuitive perceptions.)
There are so many examples of this.... where the MSM narrative says 'we' 'as a society' are like this / do this / don't do that etc. Whereas the data would regularly tell a very different story about WHO exactly is the MSM's 'we'. The most blatant example of MSM willful blindness is murder-rates-by-ethnicity....but other examples are legion. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/
This is the reason why "broken windows" policing works. When you start arresting people for minor crimes and put them in prison, that they stop them from committing bigger and bigger crimes down the road.
Big US cities run by democrats have all but abandoned that strategy and are now releasing people from prison. Those people are now doing a lot of the shoplifting that you see today. Eventually they will get more violent and commit more heinous crimes. It's a slippery slope down.
You know you're fucked when the only people with the virtue required to get themselves shot tend to be other criminals. Spending any period of time on the NYC subway can be described as a process of regular ritual degradation under the jurisdiction of deranged psychopaths, which only occasionally turns lethal if you respond with the appropriate rage. Instead you see Biglaw juniors making 210K a year cower and look away from people that would be liquidated in any functional society. Total depravity.
The writer is using findings that are based primarily on African Americans. Those findings are then extrapolated to "victims" and "offenders" in the abstract.
Do we see the same correlation between victims and offenders if we look at other ethnicities?
Erm, are you sure you’ve got your cart behind your horse? The data he’s using are for the population as a whole, there’s just that much black over representation in the data.
The cart and the horse are correctly positioned. That's not the issue.
Cities like Baltimore and Washington D.C. are majority African American. Even if we take the American population as a whole, we are still looking at a pool of offenders and victims who are almost half African American.
If we cannot extrapolate the author's findings to other ethnicities within America, we almost certainly cannot extrapolate them to humanity in general.
The more functional a person is, the more likely they will avoid dysfunctional people and the more likely they can afford to avoid living and working in high-crime neighborhoods.
Women are the primary readers of the true crime genre, of which I am one. Of the stories I've read a majority of female victims are prostitutes or drug addicts or frequent places where crime is more likely, i.e. bars, dangerous neighborhoods, and large blue cities. I'm ever mindful of my surroundings and I don't take careless chances, but my concern about being a victim of violent crime is negligible.
Status competition among males is the primary driver of individual and group violence. It should hardly shock us that the violent competitors for status mostly murder one another.
One reason I've never been convinced that drug legalization is the one cool trick that would solve crime is that for most violent criminals the violent tournament for status is the entire point. If drugs weren't available as the pretext for the game, something else would be.
Your average street dealer could make more money at McDonald's, but he would feel like a loser in a uniform taking orders.
Spot on.
Somehow, Drug Dealer seems cooler than Burger Flipper.
Status competition is doing some heavy lifting to cover violent and degenerate behavior that seems much more linked to base desires (anger, envy, greed) coupled with a lack of emotional control and high time preference.
Note also that the most violent males tend to be young. Young males have undeveloped frontal lobes, the part of the brain that does emotional regulation and strategic planning. The testosterone surging through them does not cause violence directly, it makes them extremely sensitive to hierarchy. Craving status, they act out to gain status. The presence of older males in their lives attentuates this problem. When the socialization that guides them through this dangerous phase of life (for example manhood rituals in traditional cultures) disappears, there are always problems. This is a well-studied phenomenon and it explains, for example, why so many ISIS members from the west had backgrounds in gangs and came from fatherless homes. https://www.polemology.net/p/status-monkey-of-men-mankind-and
Evolutionary psychologist Margo Wilson wrote a book on this subject
"KILLING THE COMPETITION "
This sort of data analysis serves a very useful function in validating social phenomena that observant/perceptive/unblinkered people often know (or suspect) intuitively anyway...... but run contrary to the prevailing selectively myopic MSM narratives. So well done here!
(Fair-minded people will, of course, also be pleased in the event that the data disabuses them of their intuitive perceptions.)
There are so many examples of this.... where the MSM narrative says 'we' 'as a society' are like this / do this / don't do that etc. Whereas the data would regularly tell a very different story about WHO exactly is the MSM's 'we'. The most blatant example of MSM willful blindness is murder-rates-by-ethnicity....but other examples are legion. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/
This is the reason why "broken windows" policing works. When you start arresting people for minor crimes and put them in prison, that they stop them from committing bigger and bigger crimes down the road.
Big US cities run by democrats have all but abandoned that strategy and are now releasing people from prison. Those people are now doing a lot of the shoplifting that you see today. Eventually they will get more violent and commit more heinous crimes. It's a slippery slope down.
You know you're fucked when the only people with the virtue required to get themselves shot tend to be other criminals. Spending any period of time on the NYC subway can be described as a process of regular ritual degradation under the jurisdiction of deranged psychopaths, which only occasionally turns lethal if you respond with the appropriate rage. Instead you see Biglaw juniors making 210K a year cower and look away from people that would be liquidated in any functional society. Total depravity.
The writer is using findings that are based primarily on African Americans. Those findings are then extrapolated to "victims" and "offenders" in the abstract.
Do we see the same correlation between victims and offenders if we look at other ethnicities?
Erm, are you sure you’ve got your cart behind your horse? The data he’s using are for the population as a whole, there’s just that much black over representation in the data.
The cart and the horse are correctly positioned. That's not the issue.
Cities like Baltimore and Washington D.C. are majority African American. Even if we take the American population as a whole, we are still looking at a pool of offenders and victims who are almost half African American.
If we cannot extrapolate the author's findings to other ethnicities within America, we almost certainly cannot extrapolate them to humanity in general.
I see your point, it seemed that you thought the author was using data that only related to black people.
Very interesting!
The more functional a person is, the more likely they will avoid dysfunctional people and the more likely they can afford to avoid living and working in high-crime neighborhoods.