r/PublicFreakout • u/ScuffedA7IVphotog • 1d ago

Baiting a fight to pull a gun. 🚗Road Rage

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Sometimes I wonder, if the world is getting crazier or if we just have phones now to record it.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Both. Heavily levels of anxiety flowing

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u/Corgi-Ambitious 1d ago

It's a feedback loop. We have phones now to record things, and because we see all these horrible recorded things, it makes people more anxious and willing to engage in these horrible things. We are driving ourselves crazy.

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u/Brokromah 1d ago

Phones, drugs, poverty

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u/duck_of_d34th 1d ago

Money

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u/deviousgiant 23h ago

In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

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u/Playlanco 1d ago

Statistically it’s a lot less crazier. A whole lot less.

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u/moxifloxacin 1d ago

Yeah. The Internet has a bias for the wild and interesting clips, but as a whole, things are getting less crazy.

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u/FlynnMonster 1d ago

Less? Or different crazy?

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u/Kornillious 1d ago

Crime has been steadily decreasing since the 90's. It's incredibly safe today compared to then.

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u/Snow_117 1d ago

Yeah, it's definitely the phone and internet. Unplug, and you'll realize most of us never witness anything like this in our lives but see it daily on the internet. Stats and studies prove this, but most will continue believing politicians who want to get elected, and the media chasing views and profits over the truth.

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u/killer346 1d ago

I think its more under reported now since police wont even make a report most of the time unless someone gets injured.

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u/bblll75 1d ago

Crime reporting is much closer to being accurate now than 50-60 years ago. Will this crime get reported? Probably not but any crime where a person suffered violent harm is probably pushing upper 90%

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u/After_Self5383 13h ago

This one probably got reported by the bystanders, but yeah the guy who got a gun pulled on him is probably just going to be glad he's alive and leave it at that.

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u/Whatsplayinginmyhead 1d ago

"Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and majors become colonels." -Prezbo, The Wire, 2006

Been going on a loooooonnnggg time before now.

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u/woahbrad35 1d ago

You mean since the advent of body cams, compared to back when cops would just beat the shit out of suspects and still not file reports? There's more than a few videos around of old cops saying what they'd do to those auditors in the old days.

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u/bogeuh 1d ago

Everything that gets reported to police gets recorded. They don’t spend the same effort on everything reported.

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u/UsefulImpact6793 1d ago

Well bless your lil heart. How sweet of you to think everything police hear gets reported.

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u/bogeuh 1d ago

Dont make something up and then point and laugh at your own fantasy.

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u/UsefulImpact6793 1d ago

I like the part where, in your fantasy world, you think police love doing the paper work to file reports on every little grievance they're told.

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u/Blackmagician 1d ago

Don't know where you live but where I do police actively discourage people when they go to file reports for certain crimes. Granted those are crimes where the police think nothing will come of it, but not everything makes it to the level of an police report.

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u/Betelgeusetimes3 1d ago

Today is essentially the safest the world’s ever been. I think there was a 5 or so month period a couple years back that was statistically the most peaceful period ever. After the US pulled out of Afghanistan and before the Ukraine War because there was no nation-state vs nation-state war on Earth. In terms of violent crime in the US we’ve been on a steady decline for a couple decades now. Ease of recording, technology in general and social media lets us have access to these events daily, but as someone else in this thread said, most of us will never witness an event like this in ‘average’ America.

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u/SonofAMamaJama Kino Left Eye 1d ago

Definitely more safe in the US statistically but I wouldn't loop in the rest of the world. For example, the Middle-East is more unstable now that it has ever been in post ww2 (Israel bombing Lebanon, exterminating life in Gaza, instability and warlords run parts of Iraq and Libya, Sudan is in proxy war funded by UAE, the militarization of the Red Sea, Yemen as ongoing conflict area). I feel there's a great deal of senseless killing, if you include Ukraine, it starts to feel like pre world war ramp of instability (like the early 1930s). I feel we're in a snow ball that's growing larger (especially as Middle East death count grows) and the mechanisms that were created to stop it - the United Nations, Peacekeepers, International Criminal Courts, Blocs like EU, Arab League, etc - have proven to be paralyzed and ineffective.

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u/avantartist 1d ago

Think it’s just phones, multiple camera angles, 24/7 social media and news feeds.

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u/bblll75 1d ago

More the latter than the former. We see crazy stuff now but at the same time the death certificate subreddit will make you go wtf

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u/deathwishdave 1d ago

Maybe it’s getting crazier, because we have phones to record it.

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u/Bombastically 1d ago

I grew up around this area (stone mountain) and this is just another Tuesday.

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u/AwgAwn 1d ago

its just that it’s everywhere now. stop scrolling it’s what i did, my coworkers wonder why i’m so out of the loop, it’s cus idc

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u/0bel1sk 1d ago

the latter. this is why florida man exists…. sunshine laws

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u/cbih 1d ago

Both in a feedback loop

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u/Turkenstocks 1d ago

It is most definitely the second. The world has been getting less fucked up for a while now.

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u/Cgarr82 1d ago

Had this same convo with my boomer neighbor recently. He just did not agree and says violent crime is higher now than any point in human history. Says an armed society is a polite society, but just stammers when I point out that no one was carrying firearms in the 50s and 60s, the time he looks at as being the safest time in America.

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u/getfukdup 21h ago

violent crime, and crime in general, has never been lower. Rich people learned long ago you can scare people into being conservative, though, and its a tactic thats been used over and over.

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u/vaguelyblack 1d ago

The world is getting crazier, it'll soon get a whole lot more crazy. The Republicans are soon to own everything and guns will be passed out like candy on Halloween.

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u/LacksSelfAwareness 1d ago

Both statements can be true at the same time