• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    It was also a ridiculously cold January, which always suppresses crime. Criminals don’t like to go out in the cold.

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    7 months ago

    Tbh I’d expect low crime rates with Sharia law. It’s notoriously pretty harsh with punishments, like cutting off the hands of thieves or whippings for various crimes. I like Mamdani, but I don’t really see how the two ideas are connected to each other

    • luciferofastora@feddit.org
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      7 months ago

      The link you’re missing is that Sharia Law is a brown people thing and brown people are all aggressive and murderous and hate the US and hate freedom and I can’t keep up this satire any longer, Jesus fucking Christ, what has this world come to

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOP
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      7 months ago

      Punitive criminal systems are notoriously bad at reducing crime, actually.

      Honestly, I had expected that it was a minor improvement (and it was - something like three fewer murders), and insofar as I would have seriously credited Mamdani at all, I would’ve attributed it to the general positive mood after Mamdani’s victory - he certainly is very charismatic and active in the community, and such things do have an effect in the public mood and awareness.

      However, someone else pointed out this was, apparently, the coldest January in the past decade, so that’s the more likely culprit.

    • liuther9@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Any statistics that back it up? I think making people unhappy and promoting casual violence can lead to bad things

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        7 months ago

        It’s more just pointing out that the two thoughts are completely unrelated to each other. It’s a non-sequitur

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    7 months ago

    You mean to tell me the xenophobic fear mongering wasn’t based in reality? Unheard of. Next you’ll tell me the TSA doesn’t actually stop terrorists.

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    7 months ago

    Didn’t all the far right fascists said they would leave New York if he is elected? Might explain the low crime.

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    7 months ago

    Thats a nice stat to start the term off, is there are policy responsible for this? Low crime is super important for increased public transport usage. In my city we are currently dealing with high violent crime on public transport and its horrible.

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      7 months ago

      is there are policy responsible for this?

      Probably just a result of the snow. No way any policies got implemented that fast.

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    Idk why, but he gives me Harvey Dent vibes. Like someday, he’ll become unhinged and will start doing something bad, become real life two-face. Probably because he’s trying to fix everything but the system isn’t letting him.

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      7 months ago

      Just for knowledge purposes for others (good joke) -

      Hindu-Arabic numerals. Arabic numerals is the Eurocentric nomenclature.

      Both Fibonacci and Al-Khwarizmi cited mathematicians and philosophers from the subcontinent in their works but somehow this got lost in Western historiography until more recently.

      For those interested - Al Khwarizimi wrote Kitāb al-Hisāb al-Hind (The Book of Indian Calculation) around 825 AD. Fibonacci came across the method 400 years later while in North Africa and wrote Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation) in 1202 referring to the number system as the Modus Indorum (method of the Indians).

      How the original source got lost along the way is hard to say but some degree of colonial revisionist history likely had a role to play.

    • Enkrod@feddit.org
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      7 months ago

      Reality has a well known liberal bias.

      That’s why conservatives avoid it at all costs.

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      7 months ago

      Not the Arabic numerals! How dare they teach those in school. Back in my day we just had to learn the 1 2 3’s.

      /s

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    So what I’m getting from this is that Sharia Law works? The Christian Nationalists are gonna be so upset.

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    7 months ago

    NYC should have basically no crime because Spider-Man lives there

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      7 months ago

      If no crime was ever committed then what would Spiderman be doing all day??

      Do you want Spiderman to go unemployed???