Texas crime media coverage
Apr. 18th, 2023 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mprotsenkoJust today, a guy shot two cheerleaders in Texas - out of the blue, no hint of self-defense or anything.
That made me check the murder rate in Austin, TX - it's about 8 per 100K. Then I checked the assault rate - 351 per 100K.
I compared those numbers with SF ones - 6.4 and 83 per 100K. The rape rate is higher in Austin as well. Both cities are tech hubs, both have comparable population and so on and so on.
I am not saying that SF doesn't need to bring it's crime down - it has to, the crime is way too high for a civilized country.
Yet I am not hearing anything about Texas crime problems. Prime-time news are dead silent on this topic, I hear no experts explaining why Austin is closing its stores because of crime (and it does closes a lot of businesses - from Walmart to Daily Juice cafes and home furnishing stores).
I am legitimately puzzled - why the difference? I cannot explain it on partisan right-wing propaganda - the mainstream media is equally silent, despite an obvious problem (that is either comparable or worse). Am I missing something?
That made me check the murder rate in Austin, TX - it's about 8 per 100K. Then I checked the assault rate - 351 per 100K.
I compared those numbers with SF ones - 6.4 and 83 per 100K. The rape rate is higher in Austin as well. Both cities are tech hubs, both have comparable population and so on and so on.
I am not saying that SF doesn't need to bring it's crime down - it has to, the crime is way too high for a civilized country.
Yet I am not hearing anything about Texas crime problems. Prime-time news are dead silent on this topic, I hear no experts explaining why Austin is closing its stores because of crime (and it does closes a lot of businesses - from Walmart to Daily Juice cafes and home furnishing stores).
I am legitimately puzzled - why the difference? I cannot explain it on partisan right-wing propaganda - the mainstream media is equally silent, despite an obvious problem (that is either comparable or worse). Am I missing something?
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Date: 2023-04-19 11:03 am (UTC)https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2017-06-09/point-austin-whats-that-smell/
The cheerleaders were shot in the town of Elgin, just outside of the Travis County line on the road from Austin.
Austin’s largest employer and the vehicle behind it becoming the technical hub is the University of Texas. The Republican government of Texas is trying to destroy it for ideological reasons. Abolishing tenure and other academic freedoms would make UT Austin uncompetitive with universities in sane states.
https://www.kut.org/politics/2023-03-30/public-universities-could-no-longer-offer-tenure-for-professors-under-texas-senate-bill