None, and I can offer proof:
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The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974) the crime was committed without cell phones, but in the 2009 remake with Denzel Washington they had cell phones and still chose to commit the crime.
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) we have a political assassination without cell phones. But in the 2004 remake with Denzel Washington the cell phones do not stop the criminals from being criminals.
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Man on Fire (1987) the crime is a kidnapping. Then in the 2004 remake (with Denzel) again we see the same kidnapping is still committed with cell phones.
You add cell phones and Denzel Washington to the situation, and seems like nothing much changes.
Well, I mean, Denzel IS handsome, so that’s a positive change, no?
edit: Alright, fine, showing my ignorance, we’d actually have to compare the relative handsomeness of Denzel, and the leads in the other three films before we could objectively say whether something changed, or not.
6 min video, wear headphone or at least don’t watch in public space.
None.
Crime is primarily driven by poverty and other inequities when social supports are lost or dismantled. For the most part people turn to crime when they don’t have other options available.
Shouldn’t we see an increase in crime given the hard economic times we’ve experienced for the past 15 years?
There both tends to be a delay while the effects take hold and while pay for the general population is stagnant while prices rise, there hasn’t been a corresponding rise in long term poverty.
It is complicated, but things like the ACA reduced a lot of medical debt stress and low unemployment are working in the other direction from increased inequity. The states that decriminlized or even legalized weed had corresponding drops in crime as well.
Side note: Some cities have had spikes in crime, because it is never a perfectly even change everywhere.
You think poor people don’t have phones in 2024? I venmo a homeless dude on the street.
At least once. I was going to rob a bank the other day but decided to play on my phone.
I have a bank robbery simulator which feels more real than the real thing. It’s like when farmvill was a thing and I sold my garden. Hell, I wouldn’t go by bus anywhere if there was a simulator for that, too.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-caused-americas-violent-crime-epidemic/
lead in gasoline caused lead poisoning, leading to an increase in violent crime. now most fuel is unleaded, reducing the incidence of lead poisoning, and leading directly to a decrease in violent crime
Yep. What’s more, this effect is even seen in countries that had less lead poisoning to begin with, like Sweden. Average blood lead levels in Sweden were below the level that the US government even considered concerning at the time — but they still got a ~5% decrease in crime by phasing out leaded gasoline.
Lead makes people stupid & impulsive; and stupid & impulsive people do more crime.
https://www.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.207429.1413788630!/menu/standard/file/WP14no9.pdf
You think people do crime because they’re bored? It usually because they need to survive or provide for their families in a capitalist dystopia, because they are discriminated or because they lack appropriate physical mental health supports. Often, the three a the same time.
