..."no mention of the great increase of people purchasing guns and ammo eh?"
Posted on 12/21/2009 4:07:19 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
Despite recession, crime keeps falling By DEVLIN BARRETT (AP) – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — High unemployment. More folks on food stamps. Fewer owning their homes. Yet for all the signs of recession, something is missing: More crime.
Experts are scratching their heads over why crime has ebbed so far during this recession, making it different from other economic downturns of the past half-century. Early guesses include jobless folks at home keeping closer watch for thieves, or the American population just getting older_ and older people commit fewer crimes.
Preliminary FBI crime figures for the first half of 2009 show crime falling across the country, even at a time of high unemployment, foreclosures and layoffs. Most surprisingly, murder and manslaughter fell 10 percent for the first half of the year.
"That's a remarkable decline, given the economic conditions," said Richard Rosenfeld, a sociologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who has studied crime trends.
Rosenfeld said he did not expect the 10 percent drop in killings to be sustained over the entire year, as more data is reported. But he said the broad declines are exceptional, given that past recessions stretching back to the 1950's have boosted crime rates.
Bill Bratton, the former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said the decrease comes from major police departments closely tracking developing crime patterns.
"Police have gotten much better at analyzing numbers and responding quickly," said Bratton, now chairman of Altegrity Security Consulting, a private security firm based in Virginia. "Los Angeles has been in an economic downturn almost two years ahead of the country and is now in its eighth straight year of crime decline."
In times of recession, property crimes, in particular, are expected to rise.
They haven't.
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I guess even criminals are facing the hard times of the recession. :)
..."no mention of the great increase of people purchasing guns and ammo eh?"
I’m thinking less cops, more PC BS that makes it harder to arrest criminals is really the factor here.
FBI is cooking the books.
More guns - less crime. And there’s a LOT more guns - citizens are fighting back - when criminals are shot there’s cheering...
Yes, article is bull. Atlanta is nonstop criminal activity.
Young gangs are stealing, smashing in stores, assaults
are always going on, home invasions happen all the time.
it is unbelievable.
The criminals may be smarter than the politicians.
Oh, wait the politicians are criminals, never mind.
Not around here!
All of the real criminals are busy working in the White House. Keeps them off the street.
Why, does the market data suggest a production backlog. ;-)
Think of it as the false calm before the storm.
“Experts are scratching their heads over why crime has ebbed so far during this recession.”
Kids today just aren’t motivated to do anything anymore. ;-)
Priest outrages police by telling congregation: 'My advice to poor is to shoplift'
Perhaps all that “medical marijuana” has caused criminals to lose their motivation...
Did they factor in all those unemployed folks, now home all day with nothing to do, cutting into potential burglars jobs?
Or maybe all those unemployed folks pawning and hocking all their stuff to survive, less stuff for the thieves to steal from the common folk...
All the criminals have been elected to Congress and the White House. Not to mention the judical system.
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