False Assumption Registry

Public Safety

5 entries in this category

• Anti-Police Activism Cuts Homicides
  Reducing police presence through anti-police activism will lower violence and homicide rates in Black communities.
  Growing recognition that this assumption was false, but not yet mainstream 6 sources
• Grooming Gangs Are a Moral Panic
  Concerns about South Asian grooming gangs sexually abusing young white girls in the UK constitute a racist moral panic with no disproportionate ethnic connection to child sexual exploitation.
  Experts are divided on whether this assumption was actually false 3 sources
• Trans Women Reject Toxic Masculinity
  Transgender women, as former men, do not embody or represent masculinity at its most toxic.
  Experts are divided on whether this assumption was actually false 3 sources
• Somali Immigration Sparks Irrational Backlash
  Concerns about Somali Muslim refugees in St. Cloud arise from irrational Islamophobia rather than real security risks.
  Experts are divided on whether this assumption was actually false 1 sources
• Waymo Cars 91-96% Safer Than Humans
  Waymo self-driving cars cause 91 percent fewer serious crashes and 96 percent fewer injury crashes at intersections than human drivers on the same roads.
  Experts are divided on whether this assumption was actually false 1 sources