Posted on 10/22/2011 10:01:41 AM PDT by RC one
Health care, climate change, terrorism — is it even possible to solve big problems? The mood in Washington is not very hopeful these days. But take a look at what has happened to one of the biggest, toughest problems facing the country 20 years ago: violent crime. For years, Americans ranked crime at or near the top of their list of urgent issues. Every politician, from alderman to President, was expected to have a crime-fighting agenda, yet many experts despaired of solutions. By 1991, the murder rate in the U.S. reached a near record 9.8 per 100,000 people. Meanwhile, criminologists began to theorize that a looming generation of so-called superpredators would soon make things even worse. (See the top 10 crime stories of 2009.)
Then, a breakthrough. Crime rates started falling. Apart from a few bumps and plateaus, they continued to drop through boom times and recessions, through peace and war, under Democrats and Republicans. Last year's murder rate may be the lowest since the mid-1960s, according to preliminary statistics released by the Department of Justice. The human dimension of this turnaround is extraordinary: had the rate remained unchanged, an additional 170,000 Americans would have been murdered in the years since 1992. That's more U.S. lives than were lost in combat in World War I, Korea, Vietnam and Iraq — combined. In a single year, 2008, lower crime rates meant 40,000 fewer rapes, 380,000 fewer robberies, half a million fewer aggravated assaults and 1.6 million fewer burglaries than we would have seen if rates had remained at peak levels. There's a catch, though. No one can convincingly explain exactly how the crime problem was solved. Police chiefs around the country credit improved police work. Demographers cite changing demographics of an aging population.
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More armed citizens.
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.
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.
Just one example pulled from a Yahoo search.
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
Mark
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.
More guns, less crime?
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.
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.
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.
The author is a blinkd libtard who could not come up with “Elephant” even if he spent a week in the beast’s cage.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
According to Joe Biden - the STIMULUS!
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.
The welfare state has made Americans too lazy to steal. :)
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