Posted on 06/13/2015 9:56:15 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Edited on 06/13/2015 3:22:53 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sounds like fun.
It seems things were more fun back in the day.
“Delirious” is still the funniest all-time stand-up video...
“Hey boy, you look mighty cute in them jeans.....”
Three or four Shreks?
If you are offended that easily, the last 30 years must have been hell on you.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Those don’t cover the 1950s, and what is it that you want to post out of those numbers, they don’t seem to fit what you said.
Crime was lower in the 1950s and 1960s,and that was with keys in our cars at night, our doors unlocked when gone, windows open, no security cameras, no DNA, few police, guns on display in the living rooms, little of anything, because the people just didn’t do much wrong.
Today, we are catching up on some (one, a couple?) of crimes, like the murder rate, which is back to that era’s rates, but at what cost?
Think about all the technology, and CSI, and vast cop numbers, and helicopters and surveillance and on and on, that is used to accomplish those gains.
In my area of the country while there's more drug-related offenses, violent crime is about the same as it was fifty years ago. There's about one or two homicides annually in a metro population of over one hundred thousand.
Big cities have seen the biggest drops in crime. Before Rudy Giuliani took over as mayor about twenty-five years ago, NYC was recording over two thousand homicides annually. Last year there were less than four hundred homicides.
#2 You anecdotes about unlocked doors, etc mean about as much as, “Music was better back in my day!”.
#3 The dropping crime rates actually are a mixed blessing. Crime rates correlate to ONE statistic - young males. And, since Americans don't reproduce anymore, the percentage of young males is shrinking. Our nation is following Japan and Russia, aging and dying out.
Your original post was responding to MY post, and my post said pre-1970s, and later I got more specific with pre 1965 Immigration Act.
Why would you change it to the 1970s?
My anecdotes about unlocked doors etc, are real, and widely recognized as true, and they are not mere opinion such as a music preference, they are facts of life before the late 1960s, and especially from 1970 on.
Crime hasn’t dropped, and what gains we have seen recently come largely from the technology and all powerful, massive policing and scientific advancements, that still cannot bring the crime down to what it used to be when cops were few, and personal freedom was huge, and we could live in big cities, living as I described.
If you are young, then these descriptions of what we generally call the pre 1960s, which really means before about 1965, past may sound unbelievable, but it was life.
Just as was kids getting on school buses and subways, and city buses, with guns, and we schoolboys had knives and zippo lighters in elementary.
“‘I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms,’ said (Supreme Court Justice Antonin) Scalia, noting that as a youth in New York City he was part of a rifle team at the military school he attended. ‘I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle,’ he said.
I did not know Jesse Jagoff hosted SNL, LOL.
“Building nice display gun racks for the home, was one of the most common wood shop projects.”
When I was in high school, it was common for student wood shop projects to build a gun rack.
Nah,I can laugh at myself.
Put a telephone in your butt!
Say, put some dust in your butt!
Say, “It’s a must!” in your butt!
Say, pizza crust in your butt!
I have yet to ever watch an entire episode of “SNL”.
Well, that’s a good thing these days. Too many people are way, way too serious! Ha ha. Have a great Sunday.
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