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As he pulled his luggage through downtown New Haven, Conn., a woman handed him a flier describing his new city as crime-ridden and dangerous. It listed alarming local crime statistics and instructed students to “remain on campus,” “avoid public transportation” and “stay off the streets after 8 p.m.” Illustrated with a picture of the Grim Reaper, the flier wished students an ominous “Good luck.”

But perhaps most jarring was the source of the flier, listed plainly in its text: the union that represents Yale’s own campus police.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/nyregion/yale-police-fliers.html

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 83 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As material conditions worsen, expect to more and more hysteria to be drummed up about petty crime to direct outrage to the poors instead of the system that creates such desperation.

Hell, in my area we are already seeing constant fear-mongering about "youth crime" to the point where scared rich boomers are now rallying and forming vigilante groups to punish literal children

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Bloody headlines in the news each day

Drug crisis everywhere

So much comes in so easy

It's as though someone wants it there"

80s nostalgia is in right now let's go baybeeeeee

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

It's as though someone wants it there"

They've already been accusing China of doing a reverse opium war for years. Sackler? I barely know 'er!

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Guy who thinks Harry Brown is a documentary

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