JimBowie1958
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And yet all the crime rates were much lower than in 1979.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.
