Crime rates, Today vs the Early 20th Century

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The Early 20th Century, defined as from January 1st 1900, to December 31st, 1949.


1. From the very conception of Coca Cola, until Cocaine was banned in the 1920s, the people who drank coca cola, and assuming it would have been everybody, they would have been addicted to cocaine, which has a violent withdraw.

2. There was no MLDA (minimum legal drinking age), and alcohol was taxed at the same rate as anything else, making it cheap, and plentiful.
Alcohol is a major social problem, and contributor to violence, both in frequency, likelihood of usage, and severity.

3. The most sophisticated means of tracking criminals was profiles and finger prints, composite sketches, black and white photographs, physical evidence, circumstantial evidence, and police questioning and basic investigations.
This is a huge advantage that criminals would have (compared to the system) provided that he's intelligent.

4. People back then don't know what people know today, as far as street smarts, and knowing how to stay safe from criminals.
They also didn't fully understand the psychological makeup of criminals, nor did they understand as well, the societal consequence to crime, and what it means for the people in the community.

5. Any time you have widespread child labor, and children being allowed to function in the community unattended and not cared for, you have a population of sexually and physically victimized children, and uneducated adults that they grow up into.

And a lack of education is a contributor to crime, and so is mental instability caused by victimization.
And Child labor, and independent childhood was rampant.

6. Any time that you have a servile population, you have a victimized and powerless population.
And women were all three, they were servile, powerless, and victimized.

7. Any time that children are allowed to drive an automobile as freely as adults, that makes the children more likely to run away from home, and makes it easier to exploit children for child labor purposes, and gives children greater means to organize to commit crimes.

The average age of a person getting a driver's license was less than 16, and 16 is still a child.

8. Any time you have an environment that glorifies competition, you have violence.
Sports was king back then.
And the greatest, most looked up to sport at the time was Boxing, a very violent and ruthless sport.

10. Keeping Coal powered steam engines full, and steel making are two of the most brutal, and stressful jobs ever created, and the hardest on the lungs.
Such employment was the pinnacle of America's economy, and the very definition of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

11. Lead was cheap, plentiful, and way too common.
High blood Lead levels contributes to violence.

12. Guns were also cheap and plentiful and widely available.
Contributing to violence.

13. The death penalty was given out like candy.
And the death penalty creates in fact more violence.


14. Political Incorrectness and Racism and Hate and advocating violence flowed like wine.
Contributing to Violence.

:)
 
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The Early 20th Century, defined as from January 1st 1900, to December 31st, 1949.


1. From the very conception of Coca Cola, until Cocaine was banned in the 1920s, the people who drank coca cola, and assuming it would have been everybody, they would have been addicted to cocaine, which has a violent withdraw.

2. There was no MLDA (minimum legal drinking age), and alcohol was taxed at the same rate as anything else, making it cheap, and plentiful.
Alcohol is a major social problem, and contributor to violence, both in frequency, likelihood of usage, and severity.

3. The most sophisticated means of tracking criminals was profiles and finger prints, composite sketches, black and white photographs, physical evidence, circumstantial evidence, and police questioning and basic investigations.
This is a huge advantage that criminals would have (compared to the system) provided that he's intelligent.

4. People back then don't know what people know today, as far as street smarts, and knowing how to stay safe from criminals.
They also didn't fully understand the psychological makeup of criminals, nor did they understand as well, the societal consequence to crime, and what it means for the people in the community.

5. Any time you have widespread child labor, and children being allowed to function in the community unattended and not cared for, you have a population of sexually and physically victimized children, and uneducated adults that they grow up into.

And a lack of education is a contributor to crime, and so is mental instability caused by victimization.
And Child labor, and independent childhood was rampant.

6. Any time that you have a servile population, you have a victimized and powerless population.
And women were all three, they were servile, powerless, and victimized.

7. Any time that children are allowed to drive an automobile as freely as adults, that makes the children more likely to run away from home, and makes it easier to exploit children for child labor purposes, and gives children greater means to organize to commit crimes.

The average age of a person getting a driver's license was less than 16, and 16 is still a child.

8. Any time you have an environment that glorifies competition, you have violence.
Sports was king back then.
And the greatest, most looked up to sport at the time was Boxing, a very violent and ruthless sport.

10. Keeping Coal powered steam engines full, and steel making are two of the most brutal, and stressful jobs ever created, and the hardest on the lungs.
Such employment was the pinnacle of America's economy, and the very definition of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

11. Lead was cheap, plentiful, and way too common.
High blood Lead levels contributes to violence.

12. Guns were also cheap and plentiful and widely available.
Contributing to violence.

13. The death penalty was given out like candy.
And the death penalty creates in fact more violence.


14. Political Incorrectness and Racism and Hate and advocating violence flowed like wine.
Contributing to Violence.

:)


This has to be one of the most thought out high on meth stupidest OPs in the history of message boards

Say what?
 
Unusual approach to the OP, but, yes, America is far safer than seventy years ago.
 
Unusual approach to the OP, but, yes, America is far safer than seventy years ago.


What the fuck how is it safer? Nanny state safer? Keep stupid genes alive safer? God only knows fake Jackey how you managed to stay alive so long.
 
Alcohol is a major social problem, and contributor to violence, both in frequency, likelihood of usage, and severity.

Probably most people drink and don't have a problem with violence or severity.


They also didn't fully understand the psychological makeup of criminals, nor did they understand as well, the societal consequence to crime, and what it means for the people in the community.

Is that in some kind of code? People weren't confused about crime or the assholes that did them.


Any time you have widespread child labor, and children being allowed to function in the community unattended and not cared for, you have a population of sexually and physically victimized children, and uneducated adults that they grow up into.


Lot's of that now with strict child labor laws.

Any time you have an environment that glorifies competition, you have violence.
Sports was king back then.
And the greatest, most looked up to sport at the time was Boxing, a very violent and ruthless sport.


Most people just drink beer when they watch it. Violent assholes have always existed, TV or not.


Keeping Coal powered steam engines full, and steel making are two of the most brutal, and stressful jobs ever created, and the hardest on the lungs.
Such employment was the pinnacle of America's economy, and the very definition of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

But technology has increased greatly and both are safe and clean now.


Guns were also cheap and plentiful and widely available.
Contributing to violence.

Bullshit. Guns are tools, mine stay where I put them. But they were much easier to obtain, even mail order was common. No background checks. Kids took guns to schools to participate in target shooting classes.

What has changed is more and more people like you who blame everything on somebody or something else.


The death penalty was given out like candy.
And the death penalty creates in fact more violence.

How so? You simply throw out assertions as givens. Besides that dead people are extremely peaceful individuals.


Political Incorrectness and Racism and Hate and advocating violence flowed like wine.
Contributing to Violence.

That explains today's racism, hate and violence?
 
Unusual approach to the OP, but, yes, America is far safer than seventy years ago.


What the fuck how is it safer? Nanny state safer? Keep stupid genes alive safer? God only knows fake Jackey how you managed to stay alive so long.
Stay alive safer? Stay alive longer safer? Stay alive longer healthier safer? Yeah, all that, bear.
 
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Unusual approach to the OP, but, yes, America is far safer than seventy years ago.


What the fuck how is it safer? Nanny state safer? Keep stupid genes alive safer? God only knows fake Jackey how you managed to stay alive so long.
Stay alive safer? Stay alive longer safer? Stay alive longer healthier safer? Yeah, all that, bear.

People back then did not live as long on average, and they were not as healthy, due to the things they were consuming, and the life they had and the pollution, and the violence.
 
Unusual approach to the OP, but, yes, America is far safer than seventy years ago.


What the fuck how is it safer? Nanny state safer? Keep stupid genes alive safer? God only knows fake Jackey how you managed to stay alive so long.
Stay alive safer? Stay alive longer safer? Stay alive longer healthier safer? Yeah, all that, bear.

People back then did not live as long on average, and they were not as healthy, due to the things they were consuming, and the life they had and the pollution, and the violence.
The far right hates the EPA and the FDA and clean air and clean water and clean food.
 
Unusual approach to the OP, but, yes, America is far safer than seventy years ago.


What the fuck how is it safer? Nanny state safer? Keep stupid genes alive safer? God only knows fake Jackey how you managed to stay alive so long.
Stay alive safer? Stay alive longer safer? Stay alive longer healthier safer? Yeah, all that, bear.


So now you are equating technology to it is safer today? Yea by your logic it was safer 70 years ago then it was 50 million years ago because warm blooded mammals didn't have to deal with being eaten by a dinosaur.
 
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Must admit, things got a bit better.
 
Unusual approach to the OP, but, yes, America is far safer than seventy years ago.


What the fuck how is it safer? Nanny state safer? Keep stupid genes alive safer? God only knows fake Jackey how you managed to stay alive so long.
Stay alive safer? Stay alive longer safer? Stay alive longer healthier safer? Yeah, all that, bear.
So now you are equating technology to it is safer today? Yea by your logic it was safer 70 years ago then it was 50 million years ago because warm blooded mammals didn't have to deal with being eaten by a dinosaur.
fallacy of false equivalence

Technology can be safer today because of government required standards.

bear, every time you quarrel with me, you will lose. Accept that is the same as you breathing.
 
I think it's more about medicine than anything else. I'm not convinced average people eat better. Since the 50s sure. Plus people smoked like trains then.
 
I think it's more about medicine than anything else. I'm not convinced average people eat better. Since the 50s sure. Plus people smoked like trains then.
And drank contaminated water and ate contaminated food and worked in contaminated places and breathed contaminated air and live in contaminated shelters.
 
Plus people smoked like trains then.

In addition to increasing lifespans, the decline in smoking has narrowed the lifespan gender gap, because more men used to smoke than women. The lifespan difference has gone from women averaging 6 more years in the 80s down to 4 more years now.
 
My post is the reality regarding Donald Trumps "Make America Great Again"....
lmao
 
My post is the reality regarding Donald Trumps "Make America Great Again"....
lmao
So you went back to the post industrial revolution to the WW2 era to make your case?

Before the Industrial Revolution it was even worse.
We had the wild west, a Civil War, and a lack of Modern Medicine.
The USA wasn't as modern as any country in Europe at the time before the Industrial Revolution, in fact the USA was reliant on Imports.
:)
 
it was also very surprisingly recently that being shot with a gun, wasn't an automatic death sentence, medically.
:)
 
The Early 20th Century, defined as from January 1st 1900, to December 31st, 1949.


1. From the very conception of Coca Cola, until Cocaine was banned in the 1920s, the people who drank coca cola, and assuming it would have been everybody, they would have been addicted to cocaine, which has a violent withdraw.

2. There was no MLDA (minimum legal drinking age), and alcohol was taxed at the same rate as anything else, making it cheap, and plentiful.
Alcohol is a major social problem, and contributor to violence, both in frequency, likelihood of usage, and severity.

3. The most sophisticated means of tracking criminals was profiles and finger prints, composite sketches, black and white photographs, physical evidence, circumstantial evidence, and police questioning and basic investigations.
This is a huge advantage that criminals would have (compared to the system) provided that he's intelligent.

4. People back then don't know what people know today, as far as street smarts, and knowing how to stay safe from criminals.
They also didn't fully understand the psychological makeup of criminals, nor did they understand as well, the societal consequence to crime, and what it means for the people in the community.

5. Any time you have widespread child labor, and children being allowed to function in the community unattended and not cared for, you have a population of sexually and physically victimized children, and uneducated adults that they grow up into.

And a lack of education is a contributor to crime, and so is mental instability caused by victimization.
And Child labor, and independent childhood was rampant.

6. Any time that you have a servile population, you have a victimized and powerless population.
And women were all three, they were servile, powerless, and victimized.

7. Any time that children are allowed to drive an automobile as freely as adults, that makes the children more likely to run away from home, and makes it easier to exploit children for child labor purposes, and gives children greater means to organize to commit crimes.

The average age of a person getting a driver's license was less than 16, and 16 is still a child.

8. Any time you have an environment that glorifies competition, you have violence.
Sports was king back then.
And the greatest, most looked up to sport at the time was Boxing, a very violent and ruthless sport.

10. Keeping Coal powered steam engines full, and steel making are two of the most brutal, and stressful jobs ever created, and the hardest on the lungs.
Such employment was the pinnacle of America's economy, and the very definition of the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

11. Lead was cheap, plentiful, and way too common.
High blood Lead levels contributes to violence.

12. Guns were also cheap and plentiful and widely available.
Contributing to violence.

13. The death penalty was given out like candy.
And the death penalty creates in fact more violence.


14. Political Incorrectness and Racism and Hate and advocating violence flowed like wine.
Contributing to Violence.

:)


This has to be one of the most thought out high on meth stupidest OPs in the history of message boards

Say what?

Can you be more specific.

Crime and corruption was widespread when criminals and bad actors could fly under the radar.
 
My post is the reality regarding Donald Trumps "Make America Great Again"....
lmao
So you went back to the post industrial revolution to the WW2 era to make your case?

Before the Industrial Revolution it was even worse.
We had the wild west, a Civil War, and a lack of Modern Medicine.
The USA wasn't as modern as any country in Europe at the time before the Industrial Revolution, in fact the USA was reliant on Imports.
:)
Somehow I think the big picture is beyond your scope.
 

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