Made it to the weekend. Down at the park 🏞 this evening waiting for it to get dark and then head home.
Partly cloudy and 79 degrees in Delmar, NY. ⛅ There is a northwest breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 67 degrees. The muggy weather ends Thursday around 2 am. 😓
7/13/21 by Roman Mars
Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125723497
Episode: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/stitcher.simplecastaudio.com/3bb687b0-04af-4257-90f1-39eef4e631b6/episodes/16d4782d-57b2-45b4-9b17-e320eb4f1915/audio/128/default.mp3
Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today those objects are housed in genteel institutions across the UK and the world. They usually come with polite plaques. The ABC podcast Stuff the British Stole is a six episode series about the not-so-polite history behind a few of those objects. We’re going to play the first episode and Roman talks to the presenter and creator Mark Fennell about the series. Stuff the British Stole
But what’s happening with homicides is not part of some broader “crime wave.” In fact, many crimes, from larcenies to robberies to rape, dropped during the pandemic, and continued to fall during the first few months of 2021. “Crime” is not surging. Even the broader category of “violent crime” only increased about 3% last year, according to the preliminary FBI data from a large subset of cities. It’s homicide in particular that has increased, even as other crimes fell.
Early data also suggests the homicide increase isn’t happening at random, but that much of the additional violence is clustered in disadvantaged neighborhoods of color that were already struggling with higher rates of gun violence before the pandemic, according to Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist who has authored multiple national reports on crime and violence trends.
