Posted on 08/26/2011 10:21:59 PM PDT by neverdem
So crime is rational if one’s perception is distorted by exagerated senses of despair?
I can see some heavy socialist manipulation there.
It might have to do with carrying hand guns...
Indeed, I know a cop who says that these are panzies. They only use a gun when they know the other guy does not have one. They come in blazing with guns and when offered resistance with a gun, they run away 99% of the time scared, dropping their weapons.
Thus criminals become antiwar, they drop their weapons, and they may come in with a little knife or in passive aggressive manner without any weapon if they know the victim they are attacking is armed or stronger.
But once they figure there is no resistance, they come in with the guns.
It’s how democrates, ie. liberal Nazis, are operating. Hitler did the same... and all these types used “political” means and perception of inferiority and inoffensivity. But the minute you bring truth and force, they get “offended”.
It’s the bully lazy mentality.
NYC has long had a lower murder rate than Houston. In 2010, Houston had 13 murders per 100K people compared to NYC's 7. Ultimately, tough-on-crime policies combined with the easy acquisition of guns by law-abiding citizens can only do so much. I think demographics and police coverage per square mile are very important. Blacks and Hispanics (90+% of NYC's violent crime) are 50% of NYC's population, and 60% of Houston's population. Police coverage in Houston is much sparser - 9 cops per sq mile compared to NYC's 113 cops per sq mile. Ultimately, I think these are the reasons why on a per capita basis, Houston has violent and non-violent crime rates that are double or more NYC's.
Actually, there's a theory that welfare benefits increase crime. The main reason? Crime really doesn't pay. Not as well as even the crappiest full time job. Because crime can really only be a part time job. Do it enough to approximate full-time wages, and the criminal will either be arrested by police or killed by a private citizen defending his property.
Thank you.
Read the article, we are talking about property crimes
Houston’s per capita property crime rate is 2 to 6 times NYC’s. Burglary is about 6x:
http://www.city-data.com/city/Houston-Texas.html
http://www.city-data.com/city/New-York-New-York.html
What I don't understand is this: the majority of property crimes and crimes against persons are committed by the younger adults. In the US in the 1960's, when crime was rising and attracting headlines, the modal American was in his twenties.
Now, the modal American is over forty, the oldest ever. Not so many forty-plus year-olds out there stealing cars and stirring up trouble. I wonder why criminologists don't report on the obvious age variable, even to knock it down if it doesn't hold.
For 2009, the FBI reported an 8 percent drop in the nationwide robbery rate and a 17 percent reduction in the auto-theft rate from the previous year. Big-city reports show the same thing. Between 2008 and 2010, New York City experienced a 4 percent decline in the robbery rate and a 10 percent fall in the burglary rate. Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles witnessed similar declines...
In my area, crime has definately risen.
Actually punishing those who are guilt has NOT risen.
They keep getting let go without fines or punishment.
That alone helps there statistics. It isn’t helping the victims of all the break-ins.
In my area, crime has definately risen.
Actually punishing those who are guilt has NOT risen.
They keep getting let go without fines or punishment.
That alone helps their statistics. It isn’t helping the victims of all the break-ins.
Looks like this guy has been in a coma for the last couple of years.
He has yet to hear about "flash mobs?"
Something is wrong with the site for New York, look at nearest cities.
You have to add all of these together to get NY NY
When they talk Houston, you have to check to see if they are including all of it or just the downtown areas, if they did the same thing as Houston, same thing.
You know the number one for violence is El Paso even though right across the border there are mass graves.
Go to the FBI and look at the metropolitan data
Potential victims have changed their habits, for instance, going to the mall less, shopping in parking lots with cameras like Walmart has. We all know instances of cars getting their windows smashed in broad daylight in the big mall lot.
I definitely am seeing a seedy element popping up all over my town, they are out in force.
I keep the gun loaded and ready to fire.
They eyeball me and I eyeball them back ...
Crime went down in Florida after conceal carry was passed.
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