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What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate
time magazine ^ | Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 | By David Von Drehle

Posted on 10/22/2011 10:01:41 AM PDT by RC one

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What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate

More armed citizens.

41 posted on 10/22/2011 11:06:00 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: RC one

We don’t count the million killed each year via abortion.

The scariest men force their bitc&es to kill their young.

The coldest women kill their young on their own.

The most ignorant as well as the most selfish kill their young in utero as well.

Voila - more pro-lifers kids breathing air than anti-lifers kids. Anti-lifers have it thus easier to self-medicate without having to do the heroic thing of raising their children - and failing so miserably at it because the government and society encourage their failure.


42 posted on 10/22/2011 11:07:45 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: RC one

Cops almost never prevent any particular instance of crimes.

The more of them on a force that is out visibly patrolling, however, do tend to reduce crime in the sense word gets out and certain neighborhoods and areas tend to be avoided, because thugs want easier work environments.


43 posted on 10/22/2011 11:14:07 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: OldEagle
Charlotte, NC Police Department Admits Changing Crime Reporting Numbers

Just one example pulled from a Yahoo search.

44 posted on 10/22/2011 11:17:13 AM PDT by ex91B10 (The only option now is mass resistance.)
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To: OldEagle

Right. Quit counting. Cops took a give-a-damn attitude, do not check out complaint, or do not prepare report adequately, no charge filed, no arrest made, people stop calling law enforcement with their problems. Either go vigilante or live with it. There are many other good reasons listed by others on the thread. Biden is the “wrong” answer, to almost any question. LOL


45 posted on 10/22/2011 11:20:04 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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Something that you'll never read in a publication by Time inc is that gun ownership might lead to lower crime rates. It goes against the editorial standards. Ever since the 1980s, after the "Death By Gun" issue, when Time publicly admitted that they had no intention of presenting unbiased stories when it comes to gun control. Time's editorial board decided that supporting gun control was too important an issue to bother with being fair or honest. Time's public position was to push for tyrannical gun control legislation, which meant presenting guns and gun owners in the worst possible light, no matter what the truth was. This was stated plainly in letters to outraged subscribers after that issue was published.

Mark

46 posted on 10/22/2011 11:24:07 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: elcid1970

Add to that cell phones and cell phones with cameras. Chances of being seen and reported and recorded in the act, have gone up substantially.


47 posted on 10/22/2011 11:25:32 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: RC one

More guns, less crime?


48 posted on 10/22/2011 11:25:39 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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More guns, much higher gun ownership, CC is rapidly rising.

An armed society makes for a polite society.

250 pound 6 foot strong arm muggers are now having second thoughts about bashing that wizened old man or woman and taking their wallet or purse. Why? Well the old weak farts just might, gasp, be armed.

Break into a house to get some drug money, and you very well just might wind up with a load of triple ought buck in the gut.

Examples above are not conductive for perps having a nice day.

49 posted on 10/22/2011 11:52:09 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
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To: ccmay

Wife 70, me, 72, we both own and shoot firearms, a lot, as I type two handguns are within reach of her or I. We both sleep with handguns under our pillows.

No permit required CCW here in AZ, and we do carry.


50 posted on 10/22/2011 12:01:37 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
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To: RC one

Better police work? Hardly. I’m a judge. Police are doing less and less police work. Crimes are not being filed because DAs are dismissing so many cases. Understaffed prosecution agencies, not police depts. Lots of crime, just fewer arrests.


51 posted on 10/22/2011 12:06:54 PM PDT by Integrityrocks
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Unless it's buried in the text, the article didn't point to cities where violent crime has not fallen. Of course, it there are statistics showing Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, . . . bucking the trend, that would be nice epidemiological data to suggest armed citizens are the reason. I rather favor the competing explanation that violent video games have cut the rate of violent crime by providing a cathartic release for young men's violent urges:


52 posted on 10/22/2011 12:34:06 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: RC one

The author is a blinkd libtard who could not come up with “Elephant” even if he spent a week in the beast’s cage.


53 posted on 10/22/2011 12:39:15 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: AFreeBird

“Add to that cell phones and cell phones with cameras. Chances of being seen and reported and recorded in the act, have gone up substantially.”

Excellent point! Maybe I’ll finally get me one.


54 posted on 10/22/2011 12:55:20 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: RC one

More shall issue states and castle doctrine laws, combined with demographics. Both of which are not what the statist libs would like. Guns for obvious reasons, and the demographics because that doesn’t back up the idea thaty the “almighty” government is the answer to all problems.


55 posted on 10/22/2011 12:55:43 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: RC one

More shall issue states and castle doctrine laws, combined with demographics. Both of which are not what the statist libs would like. Guns for obvious reasons, and the demographics because that doesn’t back up the idea thaty the “almighty” government is the answer to all problems.


56 posted on 10/22/2011 12:58:15 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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More shall issue states and castle doctrine laws, combined with demographics. Both of which are not what the statist libs would like. Guns for obvious reasons, and the demographics because that doesn’t back up the idea thaty the “almighty” government is the answer to all problems.


57 posted on 10/22/2011 1:01:43 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: RC one

According to Joe Biden - the STIMULUS!


58 posted on 10/22/2011 1:03:10 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: RetiredArmy

While I agree with your sentiment, and personally find nothing wrong with the signs, if you ever are placed into a position of shooting someone to defend yourself or a loved one, then that will all be used against you in both criminal and civil court. You may ultimately be vindicated, but those signs won’t make your life easier.


59 posted on 10/22/2011 1:05:24 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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To: RC one

The welfare state has made Americans too lazy to steal. :)


60 posted on 10/22/2011 1:07:08 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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