Posted on 12/21/2012 1:26:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
Interesting.
Deeply associated with ‘rats packed together in ‘rat hellholes.
I don’t think firearms would be a suitable vector for homicide.
ADC welfare payments might be a better predictor.
"We looked at homicide as an infectious disease," Zeoli said in an interview. "To spread, an infectious disease needs three things: a source of the infection; a mode of transmission; and we need a susceptible population."
Considering that homicide occurs more frequently in minority neighborhoods there might be something there to suggest susceptibility.
Yup. Look for the welfare recipients, and you'll find the fatherless children. There you will find the crucible of sociopaths. How many children of single *fathers* will you find killing other children?
So now it is OK profile. Good!!!
Yup, you correctly guessed my point.
You get a cookie.
It didn’t require the use of an abacus to figure that one out...lol
0bama supporter?
Owns an 0phone?
Learned to expect stuff from 0bama's stash immediately?
““Gang members and those who live criminal lifestyles may be uniquely susceptible [to homicide perpetration],” the researchers state, citing previous research that indicates that gang homicide rates are up to 100 times that of the broader population.”
Homicides were initially confined to the Central Ward section of the city but spread to Newark’s West and South Wards. Firearm homicides spread throughout the West Ward and the western portion of the South Ward, and gang-related homicides from the lower section of the Central Ward and outwards to the upper Central Ward as well as the West and South Wards.
Gang-related homicides were concentrated in areas of the city already suffering from higher-than-average homicide rates before they spread to adjacent areas.
Approximately two-thirds of homicide victims and over three-quarters of offenders were African-American males from 26 to 30 years old.
“Of the 20 overall homicide clusters… 75% of them have a population that is over 60% African-American and, in the census tract [center] of 70% of the clusters, over 20% of the residents live below the poverty line.”
In Newark there is a small census tract flanked by areas with high levels of gang activity that reported no gang-related homicides during the study period. The North and East Wards, which have remained relatively immune to the elevated homicide rates of adjacent wards, are comparatively wealthy and home to a lower percentage of African-Americans."
It's not the fact that they're black that causes the high crime rate. It's the culture. The poverty culture even without the element of race injected is toxic enough; add in all the race-hustlers, and the culture becomes radioactive. The reason the more wealthy areas have fewer blacks is because there is considerable pressure on poor blacks not to leave those toxic environments.
It's a horrible situation, but how do we fix it? The fact that politicians (mostly of one particular party) use those people to accrue their own power and are very adept at it makes it an extremely difficult problem to solve.
Send them to Bermuda for their education?
I expect homicide here does not refer to the occasional killing unfaithful spouses etc. Rather it probably refers to the tribal warfare happening in ‘minority’ areas.
Note that there are quite a number of African-Americans who are white; Notably JF'nK's wife.
If you follow this train of thought; the one thing that can effectively treat both infective and contagious disorders, it is to create an effective and permanent quarantine. Also prevent it procreation.
I don’t think firearms would be a suitable vector for homicide."We hypothesized that the distribution of this crime was not random, but that it moved in a process similar to an infectious disease, with firearms and gangs operating as the infectious agents,"
Considering the large ratio between the number of guns to the number of murders, guns might better be considered a symptom of crime, rather than a vector of it.Just as a high white blood cell count is indicative of infection . . .
Studying homicide via a broad public health lens, Zeoli added, also allowed researchers to identify positive outliers: "We actually had some areas within Newark that were resistant to homicide, despite being surrounded by areas with high homicide rates. So we need to investigate why those little islands exist."First thing to look at might be the amount of surveillance against crime, and the kind/number of armed men (whether police officers or others) who can be expected to respond to crime in the area.
Absolutely. Here's an eye opening read: Life at the Bottom
Yes. I was raised in the poverty culture. It took a lot of reflection and attitude examination to recognize and reject it, tenet by tenet. Hence my screen name.
Per the book, few make it out. Congratulations on your escape.
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