“The Grim Reaper took a break this week.”
The last time the city experienced a murder-free week was in the midst of a cold spell last January.
Cops said that 256 murders have taken place in the city in 2013, a sharp decrease from the 346 people that were killed during the same time period in 2012.
The change constitutes a 26 percent drop.
When it comes to crime-fighting, this year could be one for the record books.
For the entire year of 2012, the city logged 419 murders — its lowest total since comparable records have been kept.
NY Post,
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If that murder number happened where I live, there'd be less than 100 people left.
That should read stop and frisk, but I kinda like "stock and frisk," too.
Banning all private firearm possession and giving death sentences to anyone caught with a gun would lower the murder rate, too.
It turns out that violating people's rights is an effective policing technique. That's why police do it.
Yet another benefit of the government shutdown!
One of the few benefits of an aging population.
Frankly, the murder rate is down because I've decided to switch over to rape for a while.
We'll see how it goes.
Belmont Club on Obamacare. It's not a health care system at all.
"The purpose of the [system] is to transfer money from your pocket to another pocket and power over your health choices from you to the boys who run this gizmo. That’s what it does. And maybe it does this brilliantly."
I attribute this to a dulling of active physical masculinity. Instead of roaming the streets, they are living in a virtual world of social media and gaming. Even among the criminal-minded, violent personal conflict is replaced with a casual and comfortable virtual crime space with hacking and identity theft. It's a new world.
bagoh20 said...
I attribute this to a dulling of active physical masculinity.
Sadly, there could be some truth to this. People are lazy.
We'll see how it goes.
Good luck, you crazy, crime lovin' fruit bat!
Yet another benefit of the government shutdown!
And the Fox* shall lie down with the ax murderer... or something.
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One of the few benefits of an aging population.
This. Plus, there are more outlets for violent instincts now thanks to the ubiquity of violent entertainment.
Forty-somethings with Team Fortress 2 addictions don't go around startin' shit. Believe me, I know. :)
Bagoh's post is on the money. They say that the drop in rape cases is related to the availability of Internet prom. Why couldn't the same phenomenon be happening with computer games. It just seems to me that the most satisfying way to hack someone to death would be on a video game. In real life that arterial blood goes just about everywhere. It's a hell of a mess to clean up afterwards, and, even if your wear a smock, you sometimes have to throw away your clothes.....,..Maybe Chicago should stop trying to ban handguns and try to provide more and better video games for its children
If my theory is true, I'm not entirely happy about it. I think a certain amount of criminal violence is a price worth paying to have men who actually move off the couch and experience their world in real life.
And when I say "have men", I mean have them in my community, my nation, etc. I don't mean to have them personally, in you know, that way, .... oh just forget it.
Bagoh - It's OK. We know you are a lesbian at heart.
Interesting theory -. I'd project that out to cover more than just the potentially violent segment.
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