COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

0rion said

Few observations:
That Toby Keith post is maybe the best post I've read in a week.

Crime is a concern of mine. Not really at my residence but for my wife going to work. She gets called in sometimes in the middle of the night....Sunday it was 2am. With the new regulations she has to park in the garage but walk to the front entrance. I worry about her walking by herself in the middle of the night like that. We've talked for years about getting her mace but it's never been a huge issue until now. That's at the top of the list for us to get at the store next time.

Am I the only one that hopes every day there's some kind of news that shows a turn for the better while knowing there won't be? I just want this thing to end and yet it just gets worse and worse. It feels so far away before I'll feel safe for my family and myself.

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I think the lack of crowds thing is legitimate, I wouldn’t want my girlfriend having to walk in an empty city. At the same time there are two sides to the overall crime thing I suspect.

With a stay-at-home situation and basically all non-essential activity shut down, it frees up police resources from all the sheet they do that has nothing to do with stopping major crime. It eliminates the stuff that leads to a lot of petty violent crime like bar fights, armed robbery, random shooting, home burglaries knowing people are home etc. However, I would imagine things like domestic abuse increases notably.

Not gonna pretend to be an expert, just thinking out loud, but I did read how crime was down in San Francisco and some other cities since the quarantine. I wouldn’t extrapolate that as any sort of proof, but it is interesting data points.