america is more dangerous than many 3rd world and developing countries on the street

once my friend get arrested in LA by police when he jogging. they say they arrest him for his own safety because he shouldnt be out jogging in "this neighborhood"

turns out people in america get murdered and attacked in the street all the time for... no reason. yes literally, no motive.

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coldtea 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also so conditioned to this warzone levels of violence, that many consider them normal, or will cite stats with 5x-10x the violence of an equivalent sized city in the rest of the West and East saying "that's good odds, just X of 100K murdered last year".

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Barrin92 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>america is more dangerous than many 3rd world

it isn't. Crime is highly concentrated and the vast majority of, at least median affluent America, is about as safe as it gets. Same goes for any big cities, usually you can count risky streets on one hand, where 90% of the violence happens.

Not to mention, developing countries are if anything the only places where kids still run around and play on the street. I've spend a fair amount of time in Latin American countries with much higher violent crime rates than most of the world and you don't see much helicopter parenting

if anything in the first world this style of parenting is a result of excess safety, not lack of it. The world has seen a secular decline in violent crime over the last few decades, and yet this paranoia is distinctly new.

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mothballed 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Well we also view children as completely disempowered unlike before. Starting around age 7 my parents gave me a gun and ammunition and I would roam the countryside all day long. It was mostly for hunting but if someone tried to inflict mortal bodily injury upon me my father gave me the instructions to aim between their eyeballs.

I'm also quite certain that in much of Latin America anyone fucking with a child would not go through a trial and handled with kid gloves, but rather there are plenty of videos of the internet of such people being held down while Rottweilers literally rip their balls off. Probably not an ideal version of justice but also perhaps more effective at pursuading people not to fuck with children.

	▲	cindyllm 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
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mothballed 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Me and my child were detained by the police in a park because my child is a different race and some Karen called it in as suspicious and I was detained as a "kidnapper." I ended up buying acreage in the country just to escape all the pieces of shit that would harass me and my child for playing outside.

The danger to children is largely the police and CPS, who rip apart families for hallucinations or levels of parenting sin that are far more benign than the emotional cost to children of authorities bearing down on them.

	▲	DaedalusII 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you are a real american now, you play outside in your private land that you drive to. there is peace in the universe again now, if your child is too playful for Ms. Karen, they will give them a shit load of adderal as well you may consider paying for a private school to avoid Karens drugging your children