[USA Girl]

To what do you attribute this sudden increase in crime across the country?

Illegal immigration?

Increase in gangs?

Increased family tensions?

More kids dropping out of school?

More kids staying in school and being brainwashed? (I'm only half-kidding)

More pornography on the Internet?

[MplsSteve]

In minneapolis, it's the increase in gangs AND drugs.

[Question_Assumptions]

Increate in gangs and a suspicion that more gangs are being led by and populated with psychopaths. Dr. Robert Hare estimates that about 1 percent of the population consists of psychopaths but that the majority don't become killers for a variety of reasons. I think gangs may be providing a way for psychopaths to meet, concentrate, and for the dangerous killer psychopaths to push others over the edge into that category. Attacking random strangers for stupid reasons along with the attempted rapes suggest people that aren't right in the head.

[sticker]

Getting close to midterm elections, so the left has to publicize anything they can claim is Bush's fault

[kitkat]

Interesting reply to that question from a young black woman to our radio show host this morning:

She lays the blame squarely on the liberal policies of the '70s and on up. Too much dependence on the government; too much acceptance of non-family values; too much coddling of criminal behavior.