Murder rate drops

[Ravi]

U.S. law enforcement agencies are reporting a surprising drop in crime last year with murder rates in some major cities dropping to the lowest levels for four decades.
The FBI's latest nationwide figures show that violent crime for the U.S. as a whole fell 4.4 per cent in the first half of 2009, compared with the same period in 2008, led by a 10 per cent drop in murders.

Murder rate in U.S. drops to lowest levels for four decades | Mail Online

Good work, Obama.

 

[Dr.House]

What did Barry do to drop the rate?

Will the secret be in his next book?

 

[Ravi]

What did Barry do to drop the rate?

Will the secret be in his next book?

Who knows? But whatever he did...it worked.

 

[rightwinger]

U.S. law enforcement agencies are reporting a surprising drop in crime last year with murder rates in some major cities dropping to the lowest levels for four decades.
The FBI's latest nationwide figures show that violent crime for the U.S. as a whole fell 4.4 per cent in the first half of 2009, compared with the same period in 2008, led by a 10 per cent drop in murders.

Murder rate in U.S. drops to lowest levels for four decades | Mail Online

Good work, Obama.

Great news

Shows a shift in our society for the good. If we could cut down on gang murders we could drop it another 10%

If we abolished guns, it would drop another 40% but that ain't going to happen, its just the price we pay for the second amendment

 

[California Girl]

I'm converted. I am now a believer in the Obamanation.

 

[Dr.House]

What did Barry do to drop the rate?

Will the secret be in his next book?

Who knows? But whatever he did...it worked.

Then I guess him doing "nothing" was a good thing...

Let's hope he can do the same "nothing" for healthscare reform...

 

[Vortex]

Good work, Obama.

Gun sales skyrocketed as well. Connection?

 

[Yurt]

lmao....

we are now praising obama for STATES decreasing the murder rate....her link doesn't even mention obama

hey, the sun came out today, thank the lord almighty that obama is president, becuase it would be a dark day otherwise

 

[uscitizen]

Partisanship is funny. Like sports fanatics and their team devotion.

 

[Yurt]

Partisanship is funny. Like sports fanatics and their team devotion.

why are you making of ravi?

 

[noose4]

U.S. law enforcement agencies are reporting a surprising drop in crime last year with murder rates in some major cities dropping to the lowest levels for four decades.
The FBI's latest nationwide figures show that violent crime for the U.S. as a whole fell 4.4 per cent in the first half of 2009, compared with the same period in 2008, led by a 10 per cent drop in murders.

Murder rate in U.S. drops to lowest levels for four decades | Mail Online

Good work, Obama.

Congrats and Thank You President Obama!!!!!!!

 

[rightwinger]

U.S. law enforcement agencies are reporting a surprising drop in crime last year with murder rates in some major cities dropping to the lowest levels for four decades.
The FBI's latest nationwide figures show that violent crime for the U.S. as a whole fell 4.4 per cent in the first half of 2009, compared with the same period in 2008, led by a 10 per cent drop in murders.

Murder rate in U.S. drops to lowest levels for four decades | Mail Online

Good work, Obama.

Congrats and Thank You President Obama!!!!!!!

Keeping America safe!

 

[Dr.House]

0bama: Doing Nothing to Keep You Safe!

 

[KentuckyThinker]

What did Barry do to drop the rate?

Will the secret be in his next book?

Scared people into buying more guns and stocking up on ammo.

 

[PoliticalChic]

U.S. law enforcement agencies are reporting a surprising drop in crime last year with murder rates in some major cities dropping to the lowest levels for four decades.
The FBI's latest nationwide figures show that violent crime for the U.S. as a whole fell 4.4 per cent in the first half of 2009, compared with the same period in 2008, led by a 10 per cent drop in murders.

Murder rate in U.S. drops to lowest levels for four decades | Mail Online

Good work, Obama.

Glad you posted the story.

And now for the truth:

"The recession of 2008-09 has undercut one of the most destructive social theories that came out of the 1960s: the idea that the root cause of crime lies in income inequality and social injustice. As the economy started shedding jobs in 2008, criminologists and pundits predicted that crime would shoot up, since poverty, as the "root causes" theory holds, begets criminals. Instead, the opposite happened. Over seven million lost jobs later, crime has plummeted to its lowest level since the early 1960s. The consequences of this drop for how we think about social order are significant.

The notion that crime is an understandable reaction to poverty and racism took hold in the early 1960s. Sociologists Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin argued that juvenile delinquency was essentially a form of social criticism. Poor minority youth come to understand that the American promise of upward mobility is a sham, after a bigoted society denies them the opportunity to advance. These disillusioned teens then turn to crime out of thwarted expectations.

The spread of data-driven policing has also contributed to the 2000s' crime drop. The Compstat mentality is the opposite of root causes excuse-making; it holds that policing can and must control crime for the sake of urban economic viability. More and more police chiefs have adopted the Compstat philosophy of crime-fighting and the information-based policing techniques that it spawned. Their success in lowering crime shows that the government can control antisocial behavior and provide public safety through enforcing the rule of law. Moreover, the state has the moral right and obligation to do so, regardless of economic conditions or income inequality.

In 1990s New York, crime did not drop because the economy improved; rather, the city's economy revived because crime was cut in half.
Heather Mac Donald: A Crime Theory Demolished - WSJ.com



NYC led the way:

"Commissioner William Bratton, Mayor Giuliani’s first police chief, rejected that excuse for failure. He announced that the NYPD would lower violent crime by 10 percent in his first year. No police leader in living memory had announced such a numerical benchmark. Visionary police strategists Jack Maple and Louis Anemone turned the department into a data-driven crime-fighting machine. Using increasingly sophisticated crime-mapping technologies, police leaders could evaluate on a daily basis which strategies were working and which were not.
The enforcement of low-level public-order laws nabbed high-level felony offenders. The rigorous debriefing of every arrested crime suspect yielded information for solving other crimes. The aggressive use of stop-and-frisks lowered the rate of gun-carrying and hence of shootings. “The word on the street became, ‘You’ll be frisked if you carry a gun,’ ” says Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone. “There was pressure not to carry, which stopped the killings.”
New York’s Indispensable Institution by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 7 July 2009

 

[Yurt]

incredibly, for this time of year, the tempature here was in the balmy 70's

THANK YOU OBAMA

 

[Avatar4321]

You are praising Obama for doing something, but you dont know what he did? How then do you know he did anything?

 

[Ravi]

Actually it was his message of hope that reduced the murder rate.


You know this is going to make the nutters cry, right? They only want bad news of course.

 

[Xenophon]

What did Barry do to drop the rate?

The same thing he did to win a Nobel prize.

 

[Yurt]

Actually it was his message of hope that reduced the murder rate.


You know this is going to make the nutters cry, right? They only want bad news of course.

you're so right...that why it was so warm here today....

because obama is such a warm person and his hope caused the sun to burn brighter

long live the god obama!!!!