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Couldn't think of a better thread in CR for this. And, gawd forbid, the crime-obsessed DT would ever want to read this. Why the US had a violent crime spike during Covid — and other countries didn’t Violent crime is falling. But understanding why it surged during the pandemic is still important. It’s not every day that you see officials touting crime trends just as summer begins. Summer is typically when violent crime increases, and no one wants to celebrate a win before half-time’s over. This year has been different. In June, the FBI released preliminary quarterly data for January to March 2024 that shows violent crime rates continuing to decline from their pandemic peaks. In the first months of this year, the data suggest that violent crime fell by 15 percent, with murder falling by more than 26 percent, compared to the same period in 2023. “Violent crime is dropping at record levels in America,” President Joe Biden said in a statement trumpeting the FBI’s estimates. “Americans are safer today than when I took office.” It’s always worth approaching preliminary crime data with caution, especially this early. But the FBI’s report broadly fits with last year, when the government recorded a 13 percent decrease in murders — likely “one of the fastest rates of decline ever recorded” according to crime stats analyst Jeff Asher. The Biden administration has — despite what Donald Trump says — prioritized crime reduction. The government sent billions of dollars to cities and states as part of the American Rescue Plan and urged them to spend it on crime fighting and prevention, including hiring more police officers. He also championed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which created real investments in community violence intervention and paved the way for the most significant expansion of background checks in decades. Whether he’ll get credit for it with voters is another question. Decades worth of polling shows that Americans tend to believe crime is increasing, even when it’s not. But there might be another reason why Americans are slow to pick up on the good news: they’re still shaken by the genuinely worrisome rise in homicide in 2020. The murder rate didn’t reach the highs it did in the 1970s through the early 1990s, but the fact that it jumped 30 percent in 2020 was a real cause for concern. Now that violent crime is falling, though, it’s worth looking back at what happened. Was the rise in murders in the United States part of a broader trend, or something more anomalous? A uniquely American problem A few years out from the start of the pandemic, it does appear that the rise in homicides in the United States was unique. According to multiple studies and a systematic review of crime data for 2020, in most countries crime fell following Covid-19 lockdowns, then gradually returned to their pre-pandemic levels once the lockdown measures lifted. Homicide was the exception to the rule — but not the way it was in the United States. Homicides around the world, according to the 46 studies the authors reviewed, didn’t change significantly due to the pandemic. “Most studies reported no relationship between Covid-19 and homicides,” the authors of the study wrote. A majority of the studies, they noted, found no relationship between the implementation or easing of lockdown measures and killings. The Small Arms Survey, which gathers and analyzes data about firearms ownership and violence across the world, also found that the global rate of violent deaths decreased worldwide in 2020. What was different in the United States? “There was no other country that experienced this kind of sudden increase in gun violence,” says Patrick Sharkey, a sociologist at Princeton University who studies the intersections of urban segregation, economic inequality, and violence. It was gun violence, specifically, that sent violent crime soaring. Americans bought guns in record numbers during the pandemic, and according to an analysis by Rob Arthur and Asher for Vox, there’s evidence that more people were carrying guns in 2020 — even before crime soared that summer. “Guns don't necessarily create violence on their own, but they make violence more lethal,” Sharkey says. While experts caution that it’s difficult to definitively prove what caused the rise in violent crime, there are a few other factors that likely contributed to it. One was the killing of George Floyd by police and the unrest surrounding it, accompanied by a withdrawal in policing that followed. Previous research has shown that high-profile incidents of police violence correspond with a pullback by police and a rise in crime — specifically, robberies and murders. Data following the unrest after Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis and elsewhere shows a marked decline in policing and arrests that summer. “There was a core shift in our understanding of policing in the United States,” Sharkey says. Millions took to the streets to demand an end to police brutality; long-standing cultural assumptions about the authority and legitimacy of police to maintain public safety by any means necessary were called into question. “That understanding of who’s in charge of public space broke down in a major way,” he says. “What we know is that when people retreat from public space and shelter in their homes it creates this vacuum where public spaces can carry the threat of violence.” Violent crime is now falling in the U.S., with several cities showing big declines in homicide and violent crime. That might be in part because the most disruptive phase of the pandemic has passed, but Sharkey thinks that the federal funding provided to cities aimed at public safety made a real difference. “I think the federal funding is probably the best explanation for why the surge in violence didn’t persist and why it has fallen so substantially over the past couple of years. It’s probably a factor that doesn't get the recognition it deserves.” Still, some of the factors that drove the surge — the preponderance of so many guns and the periodic incidents of deadly police violence – endure. And because of that, experts say that the violence from that period shouldn’t be dismissed as a one-time event, but should be studied to see how to prevent violence in the future. Even as crime continues to fall, some of the conditions that helped create the rise in violent crime are still with us.
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Fingers crossed for your dad. Here's the statewide power outage map. Fayette County looks like your best bet. https://poweroutage.us/area/state/texas
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Step by step the GQP takes us down another wrung of the ladder into the boiling cauldron of an overtly racist society.
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Did a rewatch late last night when I couldn't fall asleep. In one of the scenes where Daemon is wandering around Harrenhall, he's alone but hears a woman's voice that sounds almost exactly like Melissandre (the red witch from GoT). I'm not saying Alys is her, but if it wasn't clear already, something's up with that woman and her potions. Also, what the fuck was up with that black goat? Was it...I dunno...SATAN?!?
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Not that it makes her good, but she is the rightful heir to the throne. Also, @Beantown Express 2.0, I disagree that Aemond is the new Joffrey. He's far more controlled and much more crafty than that little tantrum-throwing shit, Joffrey. I'm curious about the connection between Aemond and Daemon, with the latter seeing the ghost with the eye patch at Harrenhall. Of course, they are both a whole lot alike in general disposition and appearance. Just gotta move the D from the back of one's name to the front of the other's.
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Was this from the preview for next week? Because a lot of us don't watch previews. Not pissed, though, that you mentioned it, as I suspected that he would since Criston seemed to have interrupted Aegon preparing to "mercy" kill his brother. Aegon got that knife anyway. Pretty sure it was clear last week when Corlys and Alyn Hull were talking down by the docks. Bastard last names from GoT that I recall: Snow (the North) Sand (Dorne) Now, Hull for Driftmark, I guess. And we were also introduced to Alys Rivers, the witch (Riverlands bastard name).
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Same map. It's an old interactive for the whole country (minus a few states) that came out just after the election.
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Everyone should keep this map bookmarked. I don't know exactly where the city limits are, but it looks like Frisco was close to 50/50.
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Can someone explain this France thing to me like I’m 5?
bolverk replied to Stringer's topic in Cloak Room
Cities, suburbs, and the West voted Left/Centrists. The exurb (Chantilly - red dot on the second map) where I spent a year just north of Paris went to Macron's coalition. Mountains voted a mix of "normal" Conservative and Center/Left. Economically stagnant areas in the North and East went Radical Right. I never made it down to the Mediterranean coast, but what the fuck is up with that? I can only imagine that's fueled solely by anti-Arab sentiments, especially the large population in nearby Marseilles. -
Can someone explain this France thing to me like I’m 5?
bolverk replied to Stringer's topic in Cloak Room
Marine Le Pen has spent the last 10+ years trying to clean up the image of her party, and it nearly worked. But in this last week of the campaign, a goodly number of the party's candidates couldn't keep up the ruse. PARIS -- As it stands on the threshold of power in France, the far-right National Rally is facing scrutiny about some of the candidates it hopes will help it secure a ruling majority in legislative elections on Sunday, including a woman it has pulled from the high-stakes race over a photo of her wearing a World War II-era Nazi officer’s cap. Other National Rally candidates whose suitability is being questioned by the party’s critics and opponents include a woman said by French media to have once held a town employee hostage at gunpoint, a man who may not be eligible to serve as a lawmaker because he is under guardianship, a candidate who tweeted that “gas brought justice to the victims of the Shoah” and others who have been little-seen on the campaign trail. Revelations by media and citizens risk puncturing the polished image that National Rally leader and three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has sought to craft of her party to shed its historical links to antisemitism, racism and France’s painful WWII collaboration with the Nazi occupation. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/national-rally-candidates-including-wore-nazi-cap-scrutinized-111649813 Here's an old photo of one of their candidates that emerged this past week. -
The Brits voting for it were duped by jingoistic promises they could "Take back control!" and "Global Britain!" without thinking through the consequences. At its heart, the campaign was based on notions of English exceptionalism and xenophobia, which played to the fever dream emotions of older voters wanting to relive the glories of the former Empire and poorly educated blue-collar workers. Fucking aggy-esque mass delusion: Sure, blame all our problems on immigrants and the Continent. No, you dumbasses. That's what was keeping your little island afloat. Now, all you're left with is London's weakened financial sector and the English language (helps cultural exports: film, TV, and music industries), but neither of those does fuck-all for the working class. UK export industries were essentially put at a deep competitive disadvantage in the European market (half their trade), while UK customers were only treated with higher import prices. It's amazing how people consistently vote against their own interests if given the chance to blame/hate/punish others for their own ills. Sadly, that kind of myopic thinking is what gets them in trouble in the first place. The silver lining is that the UK public seems to have finally woken up to the disastrous reality, but I wonder if all those Surlyites who were applauding Brexit on the first page have.
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Can someone explain this France thing to me like I’m 5?
bolverk replied to Stringer's topic in Cloak Room
Multiple parties to choose from, plus having two rounds of voting to allow folks to take a breather and realign as needed, really makes this possible. -
Can someone explain this France thing to me like I’m 5?
bolverk replied to Stringer's topic in Cloak Room
It's going to get interesting. The Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) is a coalition of four separate parties that came together solely for this election. One of those parties (la France Insoumise / France Unbowed) is led by a bombastic asshole, Melanchon, who doesn't play well at all with others. So, it wouldn't surprise me if a different coalition of parties comes together to form a majority for a Prime Minister to be appointed. Former socialist president Francois Hollande might be the most acceptable compromise candidate to bring together enough of the center and left. Edit: The current Prime Minister from Macron's party, which hasn't had a majority in the National Assembly for the past few years, just announced his resignation. It's possible that he'll hang on as a caretaker through the Olympics, and a new one can be selected. -
Can someone explain this France thing to me like I’m 5?
bolverk replied to Stringer's topic in Cloak Room
France may have just dodged a bullet. I'd read some speculation that he called the snap elections, calculating that if le Rassemblement National had won, they'd not know how to govern and would be ousted at the next regularly held elections. Of course with no one in the majority, it'll still be a shitshow but not a Right Wing nightmare. -
Jon Landau, the Oscar-winning 'Titanic' and 'Avatar' producer, dies at 63
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Can someone explain this France thing to me like I’m 5?
bolverk replied to Stringer's topic in Cloak Room
Here's one from Friday. No clear winner in this scenario, especially since Macron's Ensemble and the NFP aren't playing well together. Turnout Is High as France’s Snap Election Enters Its Final Hours The vote will determine the composition of France’s National Assembly, and the future of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term. Voters in France went to the polls in droves on Sunday in the final round of snap legislative elections. The results could force President Emmanuel Macron to govern alongside far-right opponents or usher in chronic political instability weeks before the Paris Summer Olympics. Turnout at 5 p.m. local time was the highest in over two decades, at about 59.71 percent, the Interior Ministry said. That was much higher than during the previous legislative elections in 2022, when the participation rate at the same time was less than 38.11 percent, reflecting persistent interest in a vote that will determine the future of Mr. Macron’s second term. Mr. Macron called the elections for the 577-seat National Assembly, France’s lower and more prominent house of Parliament, last month in a risky gamble that appeared to have largely backfired after the first round of voting last week. Most polls close at 6 p.m. local time on Sunday, or as late as 8 p.m. in larger cities. Nationwide seat projections by polling institutes, based on preliminary results, are expected just after 8 p.m. Official results will come in throughout the night. Here is what to watch for. Will the far right win enough seats for an absolute majority? That will be the key question. The first round of voting was dominated by the nationalist, anti-immigration National Rally party. An alliance of left-wing parties called the New Popular Front came in a strong second, while Mr. Macron’s party and its allies came in third. Seventy-six seats were won outright — roughly half by the National Rally. But the rest went to runoffs. Over 300 districts were three-way races until over 200 candidates from left-wing parties and Mr. Macron’s centrist coalition pulled out to avoid splitting the vote and try to prevent the far right from winning. That will make it harder, though not impossible, for the National Rally and its allies to reach an absolute majority. Most French pollsters expect the party and its allies to win 175 to 240 seats — short of an absolute majority of 289 seats. But if the National Rally and its allies secure an absolute majority, they will almost certainly be able to form a government — and Mr. Macron, who says he will remain in office, will have to work with them. How will the country’s leadership work? A contentious outcome with Mr. Macron as president and the National Rally leader, Jordan Bardella, as prime minister is possible, under what France calls a cohabitation. France’s prime minister and cabinet are accountable to the lower house, and they determine the country’s policies. But they are appointed by the president, who has extensive executive powers and is directly elected by the public. Usually, the president and prime minister are politically aligned. (Every five years, France holds presidential and legislative elections within weeks of each other, making it likely that voters will support the same party twice.) But when the presidency and the National Assembly are at odds, the president has little choice but to appoint a prime minister from an opposing party — or someone lawmakers won’t topple with a no-confidence vote. Cohabitation has happened before, between mainstream left-wing and conservative leaders, from 1986 to 1988, 1993 to 1995, and 1997 to 2002. But a cohabitation between Mr. Macron, a pro-European centrist, and Mr. Bardella, a Euroskeptic nationalist, would be unprecedented. What if no one gets an absolute majority? Polls suggest that a likely scenario is a lower house roughly divided into three blocs with conflicting agendas and, in some cases, deep animosity toward one another — the National Rally, the New Popular Front, and a reduced centrist alliance including Mr. Macron’s Renaissance party. As it stands, no bloc appears able to find enough partners to form a majority, leaving Mr. Macron with limited options. “French political culture is not conducive to compromise,” said Samy Benzina, a public law professor at the University of Poitiers, noting that France’s institutions are designed to produce “clear majorities that can govern on their own.” “It would be the first time in the Fifth Republic that a government could not be assembled for lack of a solid majority,” he said. Some analysts and politicians have suggested that a broad cross-party coalition could stretch from the Greens to more moderate conservatives. But France is not accustomed to building coalitions, and several political leaders have ruled it out. Another possibility is a caretaker government that handles day-to-day business until there is a political breakthrough. But this, too, would be a departure from French tradition. If none of those solutions work, the country could be headed for months of political deadlock. Will the vote end in violence? The campaign, one of the shortest in France’s modern history, was clouded by a tense atmosphere, racist incidents and acts of violence. One television news program filmed a couple who support the National Rally hurling invectives at a Black neighbor, telling her to “go to the doghouse.” A television host of North African descent revealed a racist letter he had received at his home. A bakery in Avignon was burned and covered in homophobic and racist tags. Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said on Friday that over 50 people — candidates, their substitutes, or supporters — had been “physically assaulted” during the campaign. There are fears that postelection protests will turn violent. The authorities have deployed about 30,000 security forces around the country, including about 5,000 in the Paris region, to deal with potential unrest. -
Can someone explain this France thing to me like I’m 5?
bolverk replied to Stringer's topic in Cloak Room
The one I saw was from Tuesday or Wednesday, but I can't remember where I saw it. Anyway, I hope the one you cite is closer to the outcome than the one I saw. -
Can someone explain this France thing to me like I’m 5?
bolverk replied to Stringer's topic in Cloak Room
France is going to the second round of voting at the polls today. Turnout is high. In the last poll that I saw, the Far Right was projected to fall just short of a majority. Finger crossed. Meanwhile, France has been subject to a Russian disinfo campaign for the last year. Russian-linked cybercampaigns put a bull’s-eye on France. Their focus? The Olympics and elections PARIS (AP) — Photos of blood-red hands on a Holocaust memorial. Caskets at the Eiffel Tower. A fake French military recruitment drive calling for soldiers in Ukraine, and major French news sites improbably registered in an obscure Pacific territory, population 15,000. All are part of disinformation campaigns orchestrated out of Russia and targeting France, according to French officials and cybersecurity experts in Europe and the United States. France’s legislative elections and the Paris Olympics sent them into overdrive. More than a dozen reports issued in the past year point to an intensifying effort from Russia to undermine France, particularly the upcoming Games, and President Emmanuel Macron, who is one of Ukraine’s most vocal supporters in Europe. This story, supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, is part of an Associated Press series covering threats to democracy in Europe. The Russian campaigns sowing anti-French disinformation began online in early summer 2023, but first became tangible in October, when more than 1,000 bots linked to Russia relayed photos of graffitied Stars of David in Paris and its suburbs. A French intelligence report said the Russian intelligence agency FSB ordered the tagging, as well as subsequent vandalism of a memorial to those who helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Photos from each event were amplified on social media by fake accounts linked to the Russian disinformation site RRN, according to cybersecurity experts. Russia denies any such campaigns. The French intelligence report says RRN is part of a larger operation orchestrated by Sergei Kiriyenko, a ranking Kremlin official. “You have to see this as an ecosystem,” said a French military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal information about the Russian effort. “It’s a hybrid strategy.” The tags and the vandalism had no direct link to Russia’s war in Ukraine, but they provoked a strong reaction from the French political class, with denunciations in the legislature and public debate. Antisemitic attacks are on the rise in France, and the war in Gaza has proven divisive. The Stars of David could be interpreted either as support for Israel or as opposition. The effect was to sow division and unease. French Jews in particular have found themselves unwittingly thrust into the political fray despite, at just 500,000 people, making up a small proportion of the French population. In March, just after Macron discussed the possibility of mobilizing the French military in Ukraine, a fake recruitment drive went up for the French army in Ukraine, spawning a series of posts in Russian- and French-language Telegram channels that got picked up in Russian and Belarusian media, according to a separate French government report seen by The Associated Press. On June 1, caskets appeared outside the Eiffel Tower, bearing the inscription “French soldiers in Ukraine.” The larger disinformation efforts show little traction in France, but the Russian audience may have been the real target, officials said, by showing that Russia’s war in Ukraine is, as Putin has said, really a war with the West. Among the broader goals, the French military official said, was a long-term and steady effort to sow social discord, erode faith in the media and democratic governments, undermine NATO, and sap Western support for Ukraine. Denigrating the Olympics, from which most Russian athletes are banned, is a bonus, according to French officials monitoring the increasingly strident posts warning of imminent unrest ahead of the Games. On June 9, the French far-right National Rally trounced Macron’s party in elections for the European Parliament. The party has historically been close to Russia: One of its leading figures, Marine Le Pen, cultivated ties to Putin for many years and supported Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. And its leading contender for prime minister, Jordan Bardella, has said he opposes sending long-range weapons to Kyiv. In more than 4,400 posts gathered since mid-November by antibot4navalny, a collective that analyzes Russian bot behavior, those targeting audiences in France and Germany predominated. The number of weekly posts ranged from 100 to 200 except for the week of May 5, when it dropped near zero, the data showed. That week, as it happens, was a holiday in Russia. Many of the posts redirect either to RRN or to sites that appear identical to major French media, but with the domain — and content — changed. At least two of the more recent mirrored sites are registered in Wallis and Futuna, a French Pacific territory 10 time zones from Paris. A click on the top of the fake page redirects back to the real news sites themselves to give the impression of authenticity. Other posts redirect to original sites controlled by the campaign itself, dubbed Doppelganger. The redirects shifted focus for the European elections and continued after Macron called the surprise legislative elections with just three weeks to spare. Three-quarters of posts from the week ahead of the June 30 first-round legislative vote that were directed toward a French audience focused on either criticizing Macron or boosting the National Rally, antibot4navalny found in data shared with The Associated Press. One post on a fake site purported to be from Le Point, a current affairs magazine, and the French news agency AFP, criticizing Macron. “Our leaders have no idea how ordinary French people live but are ready to destroy France in the name of aid for Ukraine,” read the headline on June 25. Another site falsely claimed to be from Macron’s party, offering to pay 100 euros for a vote for him — and linking back to the party’s true website. And still another inadvertently left a generative artificial intelligence prompt calling for the re-write of an article “taking a conservative stance against the liberal policies of the Macron administration,” according to findings last week from Insikt Group, the threat research division of the cybersecurity consultancy Recorded Future. “They’re scraping automatically, sending the text to the AI and asking the AI to introduce bias or slants into the article and rewrite it,” said Clément Briens, an analyst for Recorded Future. Briens said metrics tools embedded within the site are likely intended to prove that the campaigns were money well-spent for “whoever is doing the payouts for these operations.” The French government cybersecurity watchdog, Viginum, has published multiple reports since June 2023 singling out Russian efforts to sow divisions in France and elsewhere. That was around the time that pro-Kremlin Telegram feeds started promoting “Olympics has Fallen” — a full-length fake Netflix film featuring an AI-generated voice resembling Tom Cruise that criticized the International Olympic Committee, according to the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center. Microsoft said this campaign, which it dubbed Storm-1679, is fanning fears of violence at the Games and last fall disseminated digitally generated photos referring, among other things, to the attacks on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. The latest effort, which started just after the first round of the elections on June 30, merges fears of violence related to both the Olympics and the risk of protests after the decisive second round, antibot4navalny found. Viginum released a new report Tuesday detailing the risks ahead for the Games — not for violence but for disinformation. “Digital information manipulation campaigns have become a veritable instrument of destabilization of democracies,” Viginum said. “This global event will give untold informational exposure to malevolant foreign actors.” The word Russia appears nowhere. Baptiste Robert, a French cybersecurity expert who ran unsuccessfully as an unaffiliated centrist in the legislative elections, called on his government — and especially lawmakers — to prepare for the digital threats to come. “This is a global policy of Russia: They really want to push people into the extremes,” he said before the first-round vote. “It’s working perfectly right now.” -
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Boerne, Kerrville, and Uvalde aren't the desert. This is the amount of rainfall above or below normal for this time of year. You could almost draw a line through Texas where everything east of it is well above normal (8+ inches). The southwestern portion of the state is blood red (5-8 inches below normal).
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