[clamper1797]

Again ????

[VRWC For Truth]

We're all Detroiters now.

[lucias_clay]

At which point did they become safe ?

[Tarpon]

Yes, it’s already started.

[SGCOS]

..."There's no iron law linking [the economy and crime]," said UCLA criminal justice professor Eric Monkkonen. "This recession could see a crime wave or could not see a crime wave. It could promote crime, but it could be 15 years from now."

Oh, this guy nails it...

[SandRat]

BHO will make them just Mugabe did the cities in Zimbabwe

[Lurker]

Waddya mean “again”?

[Republic of Texas]

YES.

[ari-freedom]

Even urban undesirables such as squeegee cleaners, panhandlers and illegal street vendors are appearing in greater numbers in New York these days, after dwindling during police crackdowns in recent years.

thanks to bloomberg. well at least we’re cracking down on salt and plastic bags.

[umgud]

Are they gonna cut off the Katrina gravy train?

[Clemenza]

Maybe the re-emergent goblins will cause the annoying hipster douches from Middle America (red states, STOP sending NYC your obnoxiously smug/dysfunctional children!) who are pouring into my soon to be neighborhood. It was better off as a Greek/Latino/Italian/South Asian backwater. Now, the skinny jeans and Che t-shirt wearing Nilla wafers with the Whole Foods bags (can't shop locally, can you, friggin hippy-crates), will finally have to grow some balls or go crying back to mommy and daddy.

WTC, I believe you had some excellent commentary on a similar thread a few weeks back.

[anniegetyourgun]

Yes, and because lawlessness will increase throughout the land, people’s love/empathy will grow cold. And that, is a vicious cycle.

[Longhair_and_Leather]

No, the economy has almost nothing to do with crime. During the Great Depression, the country did not see massive crime like the inner-cities do today, because they had a moral foundation based on Biblical teachings. Poverty doesn’t cause crime; crime causes poverty.

[Clemenza]

There was quite a large spike in violent crime and robbery during the 1930s. J. Edgar and WWII put a stop to much of that.

[meyer]

In Chicago as of last week, police had recorded 612 murders so far in 2001 compared to 584 in the same period last year.

Seems that the big, liberal cities never stopped being dangerous. I realize that Chicago is huge, but 584 murders is pretty enormous as well.

[tvdog12345]

Crime will increase dramatically. It will be much worse than the Depression. People now have no problem with taking what isn’t theirs, and they admire thugs and criminals.

[dragnet2]

At the same time, many big cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Boston and Pittsburgh are reporting an increase in homicides this year

This came out today

The crime rate in Los Angeles is the lowest it has been since 1956 and last year the total number of homicides dropped to a 38-year low. The city expects to have more than 10,000 police officers by the end of the year.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6686573

Los Angeles has less violent crime per capita than Phoenix, Dallas, and Houston, and less crime than most all other major cities in other states.

[pallis]

It will be worse now that 0 is president. We are experiencing 0’s economic collapse, and soon we will experience 0’s social collapse.

[erman]

I hope so.... let's see... consequences of liberal judges, spending money on bullsh#t and not on jails, raising an entire generation of feral children now adults... a huge dependent class that can only think of the governments next check as their payday....

as an example... go to Detroit, Chicago, New York and New Orleans...go to a public housing area and see how many are "disabled" with SSI and just getting their checks to "get some from the man"...

Pathetic. If Detroit was on the gulf coast, you'd of seen the same thing that happened to new Orleans... bunch of idiots just standing around for the government to tell them what to do, cause they are incapable of even thinking an independent thought to save themselves.

We will never see another black president as long as my kids and grandkids live. Obama is the the democrats biggest joke on their african-american base.

[erman]

I hope so.... let's see... consequences of liberal judges, spending money on bullsh#t and not on jails, raising an entire generation of feral children now adults... a huge dependent class that can only think of the governments next check as their payday....

as an example... go to Detroit, Chicago, New York and New Orleans...go to a public housing area and see how many are "disabled" with SSI and just getting their checks to "get some from the man"...

Pathetic. If Detroit was on the gulf coast, you'd of seen the same thing that happened to new Orleans... bunch of idiots just standing around for the government to tell them what to do, cause they are incapable of even thinking an independent thought to save themselves.

We will never see another black president as long as my kids and grandkids live. Obama is the the democrats biggest joke on their african-american base.