• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    I’d argue the types of crime happening in the boonies is vastly different than downtown, but the drug selling is probably higher. Going by the police blotters for the towns in my area:

    Number one crime in the biggest city: Car theft.

    Number one crime in the country: Farmers shooting their pets.

    But there’s definitely hella drug dealing going on in the cuts. Ain’t no cops, less likely to be seen.

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      1 year ago

      Doing drugs in the boonies is a lot less likely to attract police attention and the related Police violence due to the ‘war on drugs’. So drug use is still very high, just easily overlooked and doesn’t impact others in the same way as dense cities.

      US perspective of course.

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        1 year ago

        If a meth lab blows up in the boonies and no one survived to hear it, did it blow up at all?

        Dark humor aside, the types of issues faced in rural and semi-rural communities are just different than the issues faced by more urbanized environments. I live in a somewhat suburbanized area in a rural county. And crime is really only something we read about in the news. I have never had a package stolen off my porch. The neighbors did grab a package to keep it from getting soaked in the rain and their kids brought it by later. No one has ever been mugged walking to the pool or park. Car jacking is something one does to their car, to put it up on blocks. And gun violence out here is much less kids shooting each other over drug turf and more grandpa getting seriously depressed and shooting himself.

      • ANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Adding on to your point, the populations perception of the police would play a factor, too. If everyone within a community truly believed that police only caused more problems than they solve, many crimes wouldn’t be reported.

        In other areas, the police might not care because it’s easy for them to ignore the problems that they can’t see.