Posted on 02/25/2006 11:56:58 AM PST by new yorker 77
Every 23.1 seconds: One Violent Crime
Every 32.6 minutes: One Murder Every 5.6 minutes: One Forcible Rape Every 1.3 minutes: One Robbery Every 36.9 seconds: One Aggravated Assault
Every 3.1 seconds: One Property Crime
Every 14.7 seconds: One Burglary Every 4.5 seconds: One Larceny-theft Every 25.5 seconds: One Motor Vehicle Theft
The Crime Clock should be viewed with care. The most aggregate representation of UCR data, it conveys the annual reported crime experience by showing a relative frequency of occurrence of Part I offenses. It should not be taken to imply a regularity in the commission of crime. The Crime Clock represents the annual ratio of crime to fixed time intervals.
http://www.dispatch.com/national-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/02/25/20060225-A3-01.html
45 murders per day in the US in the last four days - 180 Murders
Prepare for Civil War?
safer in Iraq!!
No, just prepare to defend (arm) yourself and don't hang out with unsavory characters.
I live in New York state.
I live in Westchester County.
Only criminals get to carry guns here.
It's a quagmire. We are creating crime by being here. Time to pull out.
Sorry to hear that... guess you are SOL when it comes to avoiding unsavory characters as well!
There is nothing inherently wrong about people getting killed, as long as the RIGHT people are getting killed.
Now if those people are already members of the criminal class, with careers of violence behind them, I say "no loss".
Likewise, if those people include any terrorist Islamofascists looking to hook up with their 72 virgins and the all-you-can-eat buffet at Moohamed's Pork BBQ, I say we should render every assistance in making sure those aspirations become achievements.
Which ones are better? Red states or blue states?
I was watching this CNN story on gangs of South Central LA and after watching I couldn't help to think that walking the streets of Baghdad would probably be safer than LA.
Would like to see that reaction.
I prefer the county map. In Washington the blue spots are mostly Puget Sound area. The rest of the state is red. (I hate the use of a communist/socialist color to indicate conservative areas).
The rest of the country follows this same pattern. The high crime is in the blue - where citizens are mostly disarmed.
Saying first attributed to Texans: "Some people just need shootin".
Hmmm ... does the daily murder rate include abortions?
All gun control laws are a violation of the constitution.
Even so.. do not violate any gun control laws.
If you are convicted of improper firearm possession or use, the right to vote, take part in scouting, own firearms, (to name a few) will be gone forever.
There is a civil war being waged in the United States presently and it is called the War on Drugs.
Break out the murder rate by race. The relative risk disparity is astonishing.
"45 murders per day in the US in the last four days - 180 Murders
Prepare for Civil War?"
Gee, since we've gotten millions of immigrants from violent, third world cultures since the sixties is it any suprise? Just on the basis of population what percentage is it? What have we got, around 300 million? That's .00000015. I really wouldn't worry about a civil war just yet but keep your hopes up.
"All gun control laws are a violation of the constitution. "
"You can't rule an honest man, you have to make him a criminal first".
That's one of the reasons we left Rockland County, NY for Western, NC. We had no crime in our area of NY, but I like pistols and warmer weather.
Good question.
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