Posted on 01/10/2014 12:42:28 PM PST by Kartographer
There are crimes that mark a society. I started wondering whether I should write this entry in Spanish. But there is enough local outrage on the web, and tomorrow on print, that English must be the vehicle. The affair started early when we learned that Monica Spear was murdered with her (ex?) husband inside her car, in front of her 5 year old daughter whose cries eventually alerted other passerby.
In a way the casual observer could wonder why the murder of two people should matter in a country which had this past year around 24,000 murders, more than twice what happened in Iraq; only behind, I suppose, Syria. We are talking more than 66 murders A DAY, and even if we were taking at face value the lies of the regime we would still be at more than 30 crimes a day. Monica Spear comes only from one of the at the very least 30 families that must cry today.
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It's early yet.
Be patient .. the maggøts have a genocide wish.
An excellent point. Just as the same advances means there are a LOT fewer dead Americans from Iraq and Afghanistan than would have been the case in previous decades.
Murder rate is one of the few crime rates that’s more or less readily comparable across jurisdictions and decades. After all, either there’s a dead guy or not. Other crime comparisons are subject to definitional problems.
I haven’t researched it in some time, but if I remember correctly the total violent crime rate has declined in a way similar to the rate for murder. So it seems unlikely that the entire murder rate decline is an consequence of improved medical care.
For instance, the total number of violent crimes went down from 1.4M in 2008 to 1.2M in 2011, before rebounding slightly in 2012.
All the statistics are on that website and somebody can certainly thrash out whether murder has gone down faster than total violent crime. Or, indeed the opposite is also possible.
Things can always get worse.
By the looks of things, it’s a safe bet.
Google is amazing!
Here are the total number of violent crimes by type and rate from 1960 to 2012.
Murder went from 4.6 in 62 to 10.8 in 1980. 2012 was 4.7, which is why I said it’s possible 2013 will set a new low.
Total violent crimes, OTOH, were at 158 in 1961, and peaked at 759 in 1991. There has been a steady decline since, with 2012 at 387, which is still a good deal more than double the low in 1961.
Given that murder appears to have dropped much faster than other violent crimes, I think it’s reasonable to assign a good bit of that difference to better emergency medical care. Percentage to assign not known, and probably not really knowable.
Possibly the difference is due to fewer guns in America, and especially fewer handguns. / s
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
A pen dosimeter will work, but you need a means to charge them up. A couple of pens and a charger are around $500. Depending on what pen you get, they may saturate in a serious mishap.
Thanks for the additional info.
I believe the info I saw was referring to simple, instant readout devices like the RADSticker.
Yes, and the socialists also know that allowing, and, indeed, encouraging endless and consequence-free sex will also occupy the time and minds of the hoi polloi. Providing contraceptives and, failing that, paying for the almost inevitable result, either through abortion or, if need be, support payments, will cement the deal with voters too preoccupied to pay much attention to anything else.
"Daniel In Venezuela" is a very compelling blog. I'd forgotten about it for a while. Thank you for posting.
I also like the Devil’s Excrement blog
I bought a surplus Civil Defense radiation detector from Sportsman's Guide. It functions, but I need to find a way to calibrate it. Amazon used to sell radiation sources (!) for use in calibrating radiation detectors, but apparently no longer does so. An alternative is a gadget called a Nukalert. It's pocket sized and comes calibrated, but you have to listen to it ticking to get an approximate radiation count. You can't stick it out the door of your shelter and get a reading. My recommendation: get one of each.
I forgot about the RADsticker. I have several in my freezer. I gave my brother a couple when he traveled to Taiwan shortly after the Fukushima accident. Yes, they're good for serious levels of radiation. They won't pick up a lantern mantle or pottery with uranium in the glaze.
That sounds like a valuable piece of info right there..
I assume from your comment that storage in the freezer lengthens the life of the device.
Is that a correct assumption?
Very interesting blog piece. Thanks for the pings.
And Obama had ANYTHING to do with that? Pray tell me, please. He routinely breaks laws himself if he doesn’t like them..
I make no claim that Obama has done anything to reduce crime, but it also hasn’t bounced up dramatically since his taking office. It’s continued a long downward trend, at about the same rate as under Bush or Clinton.
Such longterm trends are not much affected by which pols are in power. You have only to look at the stats for the last 50 years I linked to in the post above to see that.
When we reach the Venuzulean level of dystopia, at least the people will have more guns to resist the tyrants.
“Except that under Obama murder and other crimes have continued a decades-old downward trend”
Excuse me, but yes you did claim Obama had something to do with it.
I said while Obama was president crime continued its previous downward trend. This is not saying that he caused that to occur, only that he was president during the period in question.
If radiation is on your prep list look into potassium iodide.
amazon sells
At 25R for the lowest scale, this would be OK for serious events. It will tell you what you have been exposed to, but not what you are being exposed to (RadSticker won’t measure rates of exposure like a Geiger will).
I’ve got to get one! I’ll be traveling to a large cobalt source in a week or two, one that does commercial sterilization.
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