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US crime figures: Why the drop?
BBC ^
| 6/20/11
| Tom Geoghegan
Posted on 06/22/2011 2:42:44 PM PDT by Mike Darancette
For 20 years, crime in the US has been falling and new figures from the FBI show a sharp drop in the last two years, despite the recession. Why?
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: collapse; crime; default; dollar; oil
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This is not sarcasm, but the #1 reason is a bit racist.
To: Mike Darancette
Video games are keeping kids off the street.
except for the ones that have to go out and steal to afford the systems and the games.
or just steal the systems and the games.
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:45:10 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
To: Mike Darancette
11. Can't afford to put gas in the getaway car
To: Mike Darancette
Why go to the trouble of stealing yourself when you can have the government do it for you?
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:46:59 PM PDT
by
old3030
(I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look.)
To: Mike Darancette
Answer? Abortion has eliminated millions of the criminal class.
To: Mike Darancette
and yet petty crimes like burglaries happen so often that Police departments don’t even seem to care about them. Either home break-ins or vehicle break-ins seem to happen no matter what town you live in and I think they often aren’t solved because police have bigger things to do so the crooks know these are easy pickings.
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:47:42 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
To: Mike Darancette
US crime figures: Why the drop?Concealed carry laws, and the millions of firearms sold especially in the last couple of years.
Criminals want easy prey. It's very hard to know these days who is easy prey, and who is packing.
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:47:47 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: Mike Darancette
12. Many criminals have outsourced the robbery to Obama.
To: Mike Darancette
All of the Amish and the Swedes from the ADT and Brinks commercials are staying home.
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:48:37 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Liberalism is socialism in a party dress. And just as masculine.)
To: Mike Darancette
This is not sarcasm, but the #1 reason is a bit racist.
Are you talking about the theory asserted in “Freakonomics”?
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:48:42 PM PDT
by
Spok
To: Mike Darancette
Crooks are too poor to do crime :P
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:49:06 PM PDT
by
AlexW
(Proud eligibility skeptic)
To: Mike Darancette
Because the Government has already stolen everything.
Slim picken's left for ordinary criminals.
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:49:32 PM PDT
by
sjmjax
(Politicans are like bananas - they start out green, turn yellow, then rot.)
To: Mike Darancette
The last few years have seen record firearms sales, as well as rollbacks in many state’ gun laws. We are now approaching all but a couple states allowing some form of concealed carry. While I can’t guarantee the above brought down crime, it sure didn’t produce blood in the streets as predicted.
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:49:32 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: spodefly
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:50:06 PM PDT
by
WVNan
To: Mike Darancette
Well, Holder has insisted that blacks don’t commit any crimes. So maybe he has passed the word to the FBI. Black crimes don’t exist, so don’t count them.
A typical flash crime can involve up to 50 robbers at at time. How many crimes is that? One, or fifty?
Or none?
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:50:12 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Mike Darancette
3 strikes rule making a lasting impact.
To: Mike Darancette
the #1 reason IMHO is the “3 strikes and you’re out” policy.
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:52:02 PM PDT
by
RC one
(Do Not Raise the Debt Limit!)
To: TexasFreeper2009
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:52:30 PM PDT
by
RC one
(Do Not Raise the Debt Limit!)
To: Mike Darancette
Stalin:
‘It’s Not the People Who Vote that Count; It’s the People Who Count the Votes’
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posted on
06/22/2011 2:53:57 PM PDT
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: Mike Darancette
A lot of crimes are not reported. If your home or car are buglarized and you don’t have insurance, why should you call the police?
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