Putting aside the OP commentary.
The worse case short answer is Capone era Chicago. Here in Seattle drug related shootings between rivals are common. Someone was shot during a drug deal a block from where I live.
Seattle police report that with relaxed law enforcement and prosecution policies criminals are comming here to exploit it.
Local reporting says that homeless camps are being used as fronts for urganized crime.
Recently there was a car jacking by 3 teens who drove around shooting at random.
Were
@steve_bank a trans person, or a black person, or a female person, would describing his personal history as "bullshit" still be acceptable on IIDB?
I don't think it would. But he's a cis-het white male. So it is.
Stay in your place Steve! Don't get uppity!
Tom
Nothing in Steve's post is 'personal history'. It's a mish-mash of vaguely sourced hearsay.
The closest it gets to being 'personal history' is the unsupported claim of an event "a block from where I live", which might vaguely imply that it's an eyewitness account, but which context suggests is not in fact anything more than hearsay. It's noticeable that Steve makes no claim to have seen or heard anything first-hand in any part of his post; And that he provides no sources other than the vague 'Seattle police', with no link to the particular police statements, nor any indication that police statements are being quoted or even accurately summarised.
We are right not to take his word about what Seattle police did or did not report. Or about what "Local reporting" might or might not say.
Unsourced assertions about the claims of third parties that vaguely support a political stance are the very essence of bullshit, and can and should be called out as such whoever makes them.
And your insinuation that calling this bullshit out would be unacceptable on this board if it came from "a trans person, or a black person, or a female person" is bullshit too - it's unsubstantiated, defamatory, and factually wrong.
