Are guns the problem, or is it the sinking economy? Or is it the increased isolation of our elected officials from their constituents? Or is it the systematic march toward Socialism and the loss of freedom that comes with it? Or is it a biased media that no longer accurately reports the news but now creates it? Could it be a combination of all of the above?
Psychologists have already predicted that violence would increase as the economy worsens. Feelings of helplessness, isolation, job loss, home foreclosures and increasing government control over citizen's lives and livelihoods.
I think that it's going to get worse. But one thing I refuse to do is to do nothing when the same idiots in Washington who created this mess, and the media that supports them, tries to blame this surge in violence on guns.
Guns didn't create this mess we're in, politicians and the media did! I blame this surge in violence on them!
U.S. recession fuels crime rise, police chiefs say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police chiefs in the United States say the economic downturn is fueling a rise in crime and warn that cuts to their budgets could handcuff their efforts to tackle it, according to a report on Tuesday.
Of 233 police agencies surveyed by the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement organization, 44 percent reported a rise in certain types of crime they attributed to the United States' worst economic and financial crisis in decades.
The survey, conducted in late December and early January, also found that 63 percent of the departments were making plans for overall cuts in their funding for the next fiscal year. "We are not saying there is going to be a crime wave, but we are saying this is a wake-up call and we anticipate the situation will continue to deteriorate," PERF executive director Chuck Wexler told Reuters in an interview.
There has long been debate over the connection between crime and the economy, but criminologists, sociologists and police chiefs interviewed by Reuters in October predicted a rise in crimes as the United States sinks deeper into recession. Crime has increased during every recession since the late 1950s, sociologists said............."
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE50Q6FR20090127
Psychologists have already predicted that violence would increase as the economy worsens. Feelings of helplessness, isolation, job loss, home foreclosures and increasing government control over citizen's lives and livelihoods.
I think that it's going to get worse. But one thing I refuse to do is to do nothing when the same idiots in Washington who created this mess, and the media that supports them, tries to blame this surge in violence on guns.
Guns didn't create this mess we're in, politicians and the media did! I blame this surge in violence on them!
U.S. recession fuels crime rise, police chiefs say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police chiefs in the United States say the economic downturn is fueling a rise in crime and warn that cuts to their budgets could handcuff their efforts to tackle it, according to a report on Tuesday.
Of 233 police agencies surveyed by the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement organization, 44 percent reported a rise in certain types of crime they attributed to the United States' worst economic and financial crisis in decades.
The survey, conducted in late December and early January, also found that 63 percent of the departments were making plans for overall cuts in their funding for the next fiscal year. "We are not saying there is going to be a crime wave, but we are saying this is a wake-up call and we anticipate the situation will continue to deteriorate," PERF executive director Chuck Wexler told Reuters in an interview.
There has long been debate over the connection between crime and the economy, but criminologists, sociologists and police chiefs interviewed by Reuters in October predicted a rise in crimes as the United States sinks deeper into recession. Crime has increased during every recession since the late 1950s, sociologists said............."
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE50Q6FR20090127
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