• hikeandbike@midwest.social
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    23 days ago

    Murder rate

    a quantity, amount, or degree of something measured per unit of something else

    - Merriam-Webster (emphasis mine)

    Both police killings and murders are increasing, but police murders are increasing faster year over year than homicides are increasing.

    Regardless of the administration, the US is increasingly a police state controlled by an oligarchy.

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      23 days ago

      the US is increasingly a police state controlled by an oligarchy.

      alwayshasbeen.jpeg

      but the gloves are coming off though for sure

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      23 days ago

      The graph you are responding to clearly shows that murders are decreasing. The graph in OP also indicates this.

      Your last point is only partially correct - the police state does grow every year, but the rate of increase is absolutely dependent on the administration. The Wars on minorities “Drugs and Terror” were each started under Republicans, and the current one is actively and intentionally making the police state much worse.