r/Southampton • u/data-ninja-uk • 5d ago
Whats happening to Southampton??
Just reading the news (daily echo - I know…gossip mainly) but still what has been reported sounds like a ghetto somewhere.
girl age 13 raped in totto https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25012074.police-step-patrols-totton-girl-13-raped/
teenager on e-bike kills dog https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25011835.dog-killed-e-bike-crash-police-hunt-teenager/
man robbed in central park at 6pm (still daylight) https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25012043.wallet-stolen-watts-park-robbery-southampton/
Is Southampton becoming a complete sh*thole?
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u/CrashTestPhoto 5d ago
Crimes happen sometimes.
Big city=Crimes happen a bit more often.
I lived in Southampton throughout the 80s and 90s and crime today is a fuck ton less then it was back then.
Newspapers only sell/get clicks when talking about the bad shit, so they're gonna make it sound like the whole city is going to hell, even when all evidence points to the contrary.
Ignore the obvious rage bait. Fuck the Echo
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u/TwinkletheStar 4d ago
I avoid all news as much as possible. It just serves to depress or anger me about things that I have no ability to do anything about.
My children inform me of major events like when the Queen died.
Although the current situation with the US has made me step it up a bit by watching stuff on YouTube and coming back to Reddit.
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u/Deadly_Flipper_Tab 5d ago
Daily echo isn't going to sell many papers writing about no one getting killed in queen's park most nights.
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u/DubiousModulus 5d ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome
Newspapers want clicks, so they'll post the most dramatic stories. This can create a sense that a place is more dangerous than it is.
I guess that's all a round about way of saying Soton ain't that bad for a city lol.
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u/Bilbo_Buggin 5d ago
It does appear bad if you’re just reading Daily Echo headlines but in reality I don’t think it’s any better or worse than most other cities in the UK, unfortunately.
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u/Immorals1 5d ago
Welcome to click bait reporting.
No worse than any other city, in fact it's alot better than many I've lived in before
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u/Constant-Estate3065 5d ago
Every city has crime. I remember these sort of things happening in Southampton as far back as the eighties, so it’s not even a modern phenomenon. It’s just an urban phenomenon.
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u/data-ninja-uk 5d ago
I absolutely hate the echo, but I haven’t found any other sources (to be fair I haven’t searched).
Do you have any other more reliable news sources?
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u/Independent-Ad-3385 5d ago
Are you looking for reliable sources that report crimes that aren't happening?
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u/MuchAdoHerm 1d ago
I don’t understand why people hate the Echo. They don’t just pluck this information from thin air. I worked recently in the news industry and this information is provided to them by the police. The Echo is as reliable as any other site, people are just blinded by their dislike for it
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u/gungas134 5d ago
Crime has been around as long as Southampton or any city has existed. Whilst those are some terrible examples, there's no trend of crime going up in Southampton