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    Crime As Proxy For Disorder

    Astral Codex Ten Podcast · Mar 14, 2026 · 17 min
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    The problem: people hate crime and think it's going up. But actually, crime barely affects most people and is historically low . So what's going on? In our discussion yesterday, many commenters proposed that the discussion about "crime" was really about disorder. Disorder takes many forms, but its symptoms include litter, graffiti, shoplifting, tent cities, weird homeless people wandering about…

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