Posted on 06/10/2009 5:06:35 AM PDT by marktwain
This is your typical “spreading the wealth” situation, Thanks to Section 8 housing. Here in Illinois they shut down the big housing projects in the inner city Chicago and declared small apartment complex’s in small down state towns section 8 housing and viola, they can’t live in their hood any more so they go down state and start a new “smaller” hood.
Yet, ironically, the racial group with the largest percentage of churchgoers also commits the disproportionate amount of crime.
Say what you will about the secular whites in the northeast: they don't rob, rape and murder. Meanwhile, the ghetto is filled with churches that are usually packed on sunday.
Still plenty of neighborhoods like that.
When the criminals move into a neighborhood, thanks to the liberal democrat lending policies, they can and often do terrorize the existing residents. That is what causes the phenomenon of white flight. The residents who stay are not defended by the police.
This multiculturalism causes a distrust of the police forces, and all other authority as well as distrust of neighbors. The distrust is rising among what I term the less criminal elements of the population. The term less criminal is used because it is impossible to obey all the laws and dictates that have been put in place by the anti-capitalists.
While I agree with your point about guns I think there is more at work here. I know 4 people (including Mrs. Mad) this year who have had a robbery committed against them. Since none were violent they simply did not report them to the police because it is such a time waster and generally a pain in the a$$. In addition the militarization of the police makes it so that every time you go to a police station you are treated like a criminal. Even victims are view as hiding something. Now, I go along way around to avoid any contact with the cops. I do not like being interrogated when I am the victim.
The article is full of crap. Crime is down MOST sharply in suburbs, where urban flight has gone to. Where crime is rising is in non-metropolitan small towns.
Is it the ruralization of the illegal alien? The spread of recreational drugs for boredom, such as crystal meth? I don’t know, and I don’t claim that those are reasonable guesses. But it is NOT that criminals follow their victims into the suburbs. During the worst years of the crack epidemic and white flight from D.C., Georgetown went years without a single murder.
Two words....”Doctor Spock”!
Sounds like municipalities, town meetings, and city councils need to reign in these militarized cops.
Since cops are local, we don’t really have much excuse to not speak up at our town meetings.
I think you express some very real concerns, but they don’t explain the crime data. Crimes are down the most sharply for the crime categories which must be reported: murder/non-negligent homicide and vehicle theft.
Oh yes they do, and way way more. They just use different, more organized, with better PR, methods...
I spoke too soon. The BIG problem we have in the northeast is that taxation falls almost entirely on 1. High wage earners (Finance and Pharma) and 2. Business owners. Meanwhile, the middle and lower middle classes are disproportionately comprised of state and local employees (to say nothing of the highly unionized “health care” industry). Basically, Numbers 1 and 2 are squeezed to the max in order to support the public sector “middle class.”
I agree. I avoid the ever higher social spiral downwards of the Cop Tribe. Not to mention the usual repellent bureaucracy.
I live in, and amongst uber white, upper income, leafy antique towns. Walking into a station is like walking into a prison. Absent surly desk Sgt, counting the years to retirement. Forms slid through two inches of plexi. Total disinterest if not annoyance of a ‘civilian’ entering the inordinantly large Security Apparatchiks perimeter.
Yes I saw that in the data. I have no good explanation and the system has been around for years so that it should have stable collection techniques. One other explanation is that hardcore drug use has gone country. Big city crime labs may have some effect on criminals moving to smaller locales.
Exactly.
They have to go after ‘high earners’.
Small and medium business can not exist in the Darwinian tax, regulatory environment. They can not afford the professional lawyers, tax accountants, zoning, and other burdens.
Hence most towns have the same large corporations that have enough capital to distribute those costs amongst many stores and demand good service prices from the professionals.
It used to be in my town if you had a building lot, amongst other lots in a established development, then the building permit would be a 30 minute thing in the building department. Now, in the same, but now way, way older development, if you had that lot, it could be two years and 30K or more dollars, with the fees going to chummy rule supporting lawyers, architects, environmentalists.
The professional class, or paperwork shufflers, or our new Mandarin class is very supportive of the growth of town bureaucracies into little FedGovs.
Take away our guns, and home invasions will skyrocket, libs will say they’re trying to figure out why, but can’t come up with an ans. yet. The fed/guv knows this and is counting on it IMO.
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