Posted on 11/16/2013 11:37:29 AM PST by Q-ManRN
The network in question consists of more than 3,700 high-risk individuals – young, African-American males from a poor neighborhood – who were clustered into a network by instances of co-offending, meaning each person in the group had been arrested with another person.
Papachristos says it makes sense to look at the spread of gun violence like the spread of a disease or an epidemic, comparing it to how people contract HIV. Much like the roles needle sharing and unprotected sex play in the spread of HIV, a person's behaviors and personal associations play a role in the spread of gun violence homicides, he says.
"It's the behavior of sharing needles that puts you at risk for contracting HIV, not simply being poor and black and living in a certain neighborhood," Papachristos says. "The same is true with violence. It's who you hang around with that gets you in trouble."
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And the liberal researcher has even begun to grasp that violence springs from human beings although it is still implied in the article that the problem is really guns. No one mentions that criminals often die getting shot by police or that their are many other means of violent death that criminals face.
That’s funny. I’ve had social interactions my whole life and never felt the need for gun violence.
Who woulda thunk it?/s
apropos of nothing you either hate architects or you REALLY effing hate them
You need to spend time in regression therapy better known as progressive/Marxist indoctrination.
You are defined by the company you keep. Sometimes that definition becomes dead.
dead is the buzzfeed
“Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future.”
Remove black crime statistics from US crime statistics and we are as peaceful as Sweden.
We don't have a gun problem. We have a Trayvon problem.
You are defined by the company you keep.”
When I was growing up my daddy always told me that you are not judged by who you are but who people think you are and this is based on their first impression of how you are dressed, how you behave in public and when you think no one is watching, how you speak and who you spend time with. Raised my children with the same advice and they have passed it onto their children.
My parents always had what they called “door check” before I could leave the house. Used to refer it as “the inquisition”, particularly when I was a teen. Included check of my attire and questions of where I was going, with whom, who would be there and when could they expect me to return. Did the same thing with my kids. Everyone turned out well.
More door checks are needed!
“We don’t have a gun problem. We have a Trayvon problem.”
You need to send that to the Editor of the NYT.
This smells like a Federally sponsored study.
—maybe the copper-lead “injections” common in our urban paradises could be thought of as a vaccination—the recipient commonly doesn’t commit violence again-—
Science is overlooking a totally baffling connection between disease and criminal behavior.
Gun violence, rape and murder, and sickle cell anemia, seem to cluster together.
He's right at that point and the vector is liberalism/Progressivism/Socialism.
Kill the family, ruin the incentives to work, and a culture that glorifies evil and here's where you end up.
Do you have sources for your stats?
My yard is often full of brown, Mexican kids, Pueblo Indian kids, blonde headed kids, ranging in age and size from grade school kids to young middle schools kids. The big kids look after the little kids, and include them in whatever they are doing, riding bikes, digging holes, making a fort, throwing the football, a baseball, or playing games. They do this with little or no adult interjection. New kids are always welcome and included in the group. I’ve watched this process for several years now. None of them are rich, or even well off, and some of them are poor. The things I’ve noticed that they have in common are two parent families, and extended families that love them, and work to raise them right.
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