Post by ck4829 on Feb 11, 2022 0:10:39 GMT
Confirmation Bias 101: Challenging The “Crimenado” Narrative
One of the principal issues that Republicans in Colorado are running on for the 2022 midterms is fear over increasing crime rates. An undeniable increase in violent crimes has been accompanied by a lesser but still measurable increase in property crimes in the last several years across the nation, though still not at historic levels seen before crime levels plunged in the 1990s, has Republicans coast to coast looking for ways they can pin this complicated societal development on their political adversaries via the straightest line possible.
Apropos, Westword’s Conor McCormick-Cavanagh has a feature-length story out today on how the “crimenado” also known as the “crime tsunami” scare tactics are being rolled out in our state, backed by a report on the subject from a conservative policy “stink tank” known as the Common Sense Institute. It’s a revealing look at how this nationwide message strategy is being grafted on to Republican campaigns here in Colorado–arguing flat-out that criminal justice reforms passed in Colorado in recent years are the cause of the increase in crime the state is experiencing:
www.coloradopols.com/diary/171445/confirmation-bias-101-challenging-the-crimenado-narrative
burnoatus.freeforums.net/thread/888/confirmation-bias-challenging-crimenado-narrative
olfactorius.freeforums.net/thread/55/confirmation-bias-challenging-crimenado-narrative
One of the principal issues that Republicans in Colorado are running on for the 2022 midterms is fear over increasing crime rates. An undeniable increase in violent crimes has been accompanied by a lesser but still measurable increase in property crimes in the last several years across the nation, though still not at historic levels seen before crime levels plunged in the 1990s, has Republicans coast to coast looking for ways they can pin this complicated societal development on their political adversaries via the straightest line possible.
Apropos, Westword’s Conor McCormick-Cavanagh has a feature-length story out today on how the “crimenado” also known as the “crime tsunami” scare tactics are being rolled out in our state, backed by a report on the subject from a conservative policy “stink tank” known as the Common Sense Institute. It’s a revealing look at how this nationwide message strategy is being grafted on to Republican campaigns here in Colorado–arguing flat-out that criminal justice reforms passed in Colorado in recent years are the cause of the increase in crime the state is experiencing:
www.coloradopols.com/diary/171445/confirmation-bias-101-challenging-the-crimenado-narrative
burnoatus.freeforums.net/thread/888/confirmation-bias-challenging-crimenado-narrative
olfactorius.freeforums.net/thread/55/confirmation-bias-challenging-crimenado-narrative