Crime is increased by poverty most of all. Take care of poverty and crime will plummet.
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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Poverty even explains a big chunk of white collar crime. It's so traumatic that those who experience it carry its effects with them even when they make a ton of money and are no longer impoverished. If they never go to therapy to heal, they keep reacting to the world as if they are still living in poverty. To us this looks like greed.
Makes sense. If you’re driving a car with expired registration the last thing you want is to get pulled over.
Same goes if you’re in the country illegally: You avoid committing crimes so you don’t get caught and potentially deported.
Yep, the fact that immigrants commit less crime than native-born citizens has been known since Herbert Hoover established the Wickersham Commission in 1929. What makes this study uniquely important is its methodology.
To estimate the undocumented population at the neighborhood level, the research team accessed restricted individual-level Census data through a federal Research Data Center (RDC) and then applied an imputation method similar to those used by the Department of Homeland Security.
This is where they relied on the expertise of Christopher, who received his training at UC Irvine, earning an economics Ph.D. in 2022 before joining Stanford.
Christopher is one of the few academic researchers to have published work leveraging such a method.
Bullshit. I've seen atrocious crimes due to unauthorized immigration - crimes by the ICE organization against people assigned this label. I hope to see justice soon.
"My feelings don't care about the facts"
- maga
“Yeah, but there was this one guy in the news who murdered someone. They’re all like that.”
Further proof that open borders is the way to go.
And free balloons!
Do they float?
“We all float down here.”
Only when you fill them with the right kind of gas.
I thought data already showed that undocumented tend to do less crime. Which would make sense if you are trying to keep a low profile anyway...
So…crime is created by material conditions, not by someone’s ethnicity.
No fucking shit. You think anybody who is in the country illegally is going to draw attention to themselves by committing crimes?
FWIW I've known multiple people who admitted to being in the country illegally, and they were wonderful, normal, working people. I've also personally been through the US immigration system from a strictly legal standpoint and it's no picnic, and no wonder people want to cut corners. It was always surprising to me how many upstanding christian, tax paying, public servant working people would say things like "just fly your fiance to mexico and bring her over with you" as if comitting a felony was the common sense answer to a deffective immigration system.
Pffft. “Science”. Don’t they know this criminal, cruel, and incompetent “police” force are driven by a truly fucked up ‘belief’ in Jesus?! Oh and money.
Both of which have trumped science for the better part of a decade. Sorry for the pun and the dystopian quality of the zeitgeist.
Honestly, it might even be lower
Wrong facts! Wrong facts!!!!! Reeeeeeeee
Odd, it should have a negative association.