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Despite recession, crime keeps falling
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| 12-21-09
| DEVLIN BARRETT
Posted on 12/21/2009 4:07:19 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
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To: Lera
Think of it as the false calm before the storm.I agree, many potential thugs are still scamming the system. Once that comes to halt and it will. Watch out
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:25:46 PM PST
by
Popman
(Election 2010: Congress: your pink slips are coming ............... :)
To: TaxPayer2000
Many illegal aliens have gone home to the turd world hell holes they came from have helped drop the crime rate
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:27:44 PM PST
by
Popman
(Election 2010: Congress: your pink slips are coming ............... :)
To: TaxPayer2000
To: TaxPayer2000
Being poor does not equate to being a criminal; it did not happen during the last great depression and it will not happen during this new coming greater depression.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:35:30 PM PST
by
BillT
(If you can not stand behind our military, you might as well stand in front of them!)
To: TaxPayer2000
It’s the faction of illegal aliens — lots of them have gone back to Mexico.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:36:52 PM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(Our black President is quite blackmailable.)
To: SeaHawkFan
How many illegals have returned to Mexico and Central America?
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:36:59 PM PST
by
Melchior
To: steve7
Post of the day! I would add the U.S Congress, and the and the legislatures of all 50 states.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:38:42 PM PST
by
MotorCityBuck
(You mark that frame an 8, and you're entering a world of pain.)
To: TaxPayer2000
Naturally, they never mention the increased levels of CCW and gun ownership being factors.
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posted on
12/21/2009 4:42:38 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
To: TaxPayer2000
If the leftist bean counters in the FBI intentionally made Bush look bad in 2008, then a return to regular accounting of crimes in 2009 would lead to a decline.
I suspect these numbers are politically motivated. There must be other State sources to compare against the FBI numbers.
After Climategate—no numbers can be trusted.
To: Ptarmigan
That or all the gun purchases in the past 18 months are also working to deter crime.
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posted on
12/21/2009 5:02:16 PM PST
by
tbw2
(Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
To: TaxPayer2000
Kids today are too lazy to steal!
To: Popman
Correct....illegals have gone back to mexico where the economy is better than the US. :)
Seriously, it is true in many border states which has dropped crime big time. I think more gun owners have helped too.
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posted on
12/21/2009 5:29:54 PM PST
by
chiller
( ALMOST SPEECHLESS)
To: chiller
....its hilarious in Phoenix to hear liberal city officials and media question why crime is down. None will admit Sheriff Joe has chased many illegals out of town, but none of the libs want to admit it.
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posted on
12/21/2009 5:32:00 PM PST
by
chiller
( ALMOST SPEECHLESS)
To: tbw2
"That or all the gun purchases in the past 18 months are also working to deter crime." Yeah. Now that you mention it....
what a coinkydence.
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posted on
12/21/2009 5:36:22 PM PST
by
XenaLee
To: TaxPayer2000
And the poor criminals affected by the recession have to think about the continually rising proliferation of guns in houses and in waistbands. Those newspapers that self-righteously publish the lists of CCW holders with their addresses actually promote caution among the B&E crowd. It not only tells which houses to specifically avoid but it indicates neighborhoods that probably have more guns in more houses than are on the CCW lists.
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posted on
12/21/2009 5:53:23 PM PST
by
arthurus
("If you don't believI really hate to in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
To: arthurus
Crips can’t afford the bullets?
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posted on
12/21/2009 5:58:28 PM PST
by
DAC21
To: TaxPayer2000
"The popular wisdom is wrong," said Fox. "If a law-abiding citizen loses their job, they don't typically go on a crime spree." A weird statement. If a law-abiding citizen loses his (or her, if you must) job, not a single one of his multiple personalities goes on a crime spree?
If any of your multiple personalities gives in to the temptation to commit a crime, you (whoever you are right now) are not a law-abiding citizen?
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posted on
12/21/2009 6:00:53 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: An Old Man
Speaking of that, our area has seen a rise of robberies.
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posted on
12/21/2009 8:12:44 PM PST
by
Ptarmigan
(Death Penalty For Bunny Rabbits!)
To: Ptarmigan
We had two cops shot last night, and two roberies so far this morning.
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posted on
12/22/2009 9:36:31 AM PST
by
An Old Man
(Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without.)
To: monkeyshine
Perhaps all that medical marijuana has caused criminals to lose their motivationActually, here in Colorado, the incidence of robberies of marijuana "dispensaries" has really been picking up. That, and the fact that we seem to be having bank robberies several times a week and the black on white hate attacks in Denver have also been rising makes me think that this report is bs.
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posted on
12/22/2009 9:40:52 AM PST
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
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