that and the fact the L$M would never say anything about crime with the boy still in office...
Posted on 12/25/2011 7:34:30 AM PST by rellimpank
The 1950s are often recalled as a golden age in American life — stable families, rising incomes, wholesome TV shows and low crime rates. Doesn't sound like 2011, does it? When it comes to crime, though, there is a striking similarity: We are, believe it or not, in a new golden age.
Crime has never subsided as a topic for local news or prime-time detective shows. Anyone looking for reasons to fear going out of the house can find plenty. But the truth is our streets are safer than they have been in a long time.
The latest evidence came last week, when the FBI reported that in the first half of 2011, "violent crimes were down 6.4 percent, while property crimes fell 3.7 percent." Murder declined by 5.7 percent, rape by 5.1 percent, and robbery by 7.7 percent.
Six-month drops don't mean much by themselves. But this one continues an established trend. Crime peaked in 1991 and fell steadily before flattening out somewhat in the mid-2000s. But since 2006, both violent crime and property crime have plunged.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
OWS and Air Jordan crimes included? I don’t think so.
We need wholesome TV shows now. But the punks in Hollywood couldn’t produce a wholesome show to save their lives.
Remove the rhetoric and the facts don’t support the contrived perception.
An armed society is a polite society.Especially after the vermin have been taken out with the trash.
“But the truth is our streets are safer than they have been in a long time.”
Speaking as someone in the security business, I know this statement to be false.
This drives me crazy.
The reason that crime rates SEEM to be down is that the reporting rules have changed for political reasons.
You want to live well?
Bring back the mores of the Fifties.
Desperate Chicago Liberal — HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
We had home invasion this year. Reported it, but it never made the TV or the paper.
How many times does this happen every day?
How many crimes are not reported because the victims know with absolute certainty that nothing will be done about them?
The crimes have shifted to the lobbies and back rooms opf state capitals and Washington, rules and laws changed to make things that were once illegal legal, and the reporting method used by the FBI and Just Us Department under-report true crimes. So yeah - let’s celebrate a drop in crime.....
that and the fact the L$M would never say anything about crime with the boy still in office...
What the hell is this? Some sort of Jedi mind trick?
Exactamundo.
Pesonally, I believe that this fact jusxtaposed with..."the latest evidence...that in the first half of 2011, violent crimes were down 6.4 percent, while property crimes fell 3.7 percent....murder declined by 5.7 percent, rape by 5.1 percent, and robbery by 7.7 percent"...pretty well proves Heinlein's maxim, "An armed society is a polite society."
But try telling that to any standard Liberal Whack Job.
In the 1950’s government was about half the size it is now.
Even by Steve Chapman’s standards, this is a moronic article. How many murders were there in Chicago this year?
Another possible reason for reporting low crime: ‘They’ would be more justified in mandating greater restrictions on firearm ownership because we don’t need weapons anymore, because crime is so low.
My little town has a nearly zero crime rate and as a result we have a county patrol car roll through here about once a week.
When you lose the crime, you lose the police as well.
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