We need a forum on Crime….and here’s why

[Woodznutz]

That you need to stop playing stupid.

Well, that's helpful.

 

[beautress]

Election season is in full swing, and there are separate forums for two of the top three issues that weigh on voters’ minds: 1) The economy, and 2) Immigration (mostly illegal). There is, however, no separate forum for the third top issue, which is 3) Crime, which the majority (according to the Pew study linked below) are concerned about.

Given the skyrocketing rate of crime, and that it is among the top three issues of concern for voters, why should only the first two get a separate forum and not the third?

State of the Union 2024: Where Americans stand on the economy, immigration and other key issues

Ahead of President Joe Biden's third State of the Union address Americans are focused on the health of the economy and immigration.

www.pewresearch.org

I hate to say it, but with an economy that is weakened by inflation, price rises seem to be out of control. People who were just getting by on a wing and a prayer may be tempted to steal food they couldn't afford any more. And a single mom who is estranged from the father of her children who is in jail for a year for using unlawful drugs. What is she going to do if she can't buy them clothes that fit because they hrew out of them. How can she get by with no resources except to take jobs and leaving a 14 year old kid taking off from school to babysit the newborn/infant who is learning to crawl in places no child should go? I have such a friend. AND I pray for her and those like her every day, because welfare doesn't pay for her phone to accept emergency calls from the school about a sick child. Her father is at address unknown and her mother has gone bankrupt.

We have a lot of problems when people with no resources see their children dressed in clothes their schoolmates laugh or snub them for not being "cool." Normal kids can be cruel. Just saying.

 

[beautress]

Woodznutz

I hate to say it, but with an economy that is weakened by inflation, price rises seem to be out of control. People who were just getting by on a wing and a prayer may be tempted to steal food they couldn't afford any more. And a single mom who is estranged from the father of her children who is in jail for a year for using unlawful drugs. What is she going to do if she can't buy them clothes that fit because they hrew out of them. How can she get by with no resources except to take jobs and leaving a 14 year old kid taking off from school to babysit the newborn/infant who is learning to crawl in places no child should go? I have such a friend. AND I pray for her and those like her every day, because welfare doesn't pay for her phone to accept emergency calls from the school about a sick child. Her father is at address unknown and her mother has gone bankrupt.

We have a lot of problems when people with no resources see their children dressed in clothes their schoolmates laugh or snub them for not being "cool." Normal kids can be cruel. And fights can turn ugly. Just sayin'

 

[Woodznutz]

Woodznutz

Last line in the play "Bus Stop",

"Well, I guess that's what happens to some people."

 

[Toro]

Good idea.

With all these crimes Trump and his family have committed / are committing, I can't keep up!

 

[Hector12]

If violent crime is declining, it's because it isn't being reported, not because it isn't happening. MAGA

The New York Times, January Jan. 11, 2024

The number of murders in U.S. cities fell by more than 12 percent — which would be the biggest national decline on record. The spike that started in 2020 now looks more like a blip, and the murder rate is lower than it was during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. The recent data also suggests that the violent-crime rate in 2023 was near its lowest level in more than 50 years, as Jeff Asher, a crime analyst, wrote for his newsletter.

Crime on the Decline

Murders likely fell at record speed last year.

www.nytimes.com

 

[the watcher]

I am very surprised that the word "crime" hasn't been replaced with the kinder words " cultural activities" by the Newspeak press.

 

[DudleySmith]

Who did you get your drugs from?

Scum who murdered, robbed, and killed.

 

[DudleySmith]

The rise in incarceration for violent and drug offenses has been working, then. We need to keep arresting more blacks and latinos and keep the trend going.

 

[Woodznutz]

The rise in incarceration for violent and drug offenses has been working, then. We need to keep arresting more blacks and latinos and keep the trend going.

We're 'detaining' the wrong people. We need to get the addicts and users into secured treatment facilities for loooooong term treatment. Money is the life-blood of the illegal drug industry and it all comes from addicts and users, every penny. Remove the blood, the creature dies.

 

[Woodznutz]

It's the low-hanging fruit that law enforcement won't touch. In fact legislators across the country want to make drug use legal (most of their supporters must be users). See my comments at the bottom of my posts.

Here's the low-hanging fruit mentioned above.

967,615

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"In 2017, the most recent year for which population-level estimates of nonfatal overdoses can be generated, a total of 967,615 nonfatal drug overdoses were treated in EDs, an increase of 4.3% from 2016, which included 305,623 opioid-involved overdoses, a 3.1% increase from 2016."

This was 2017, imagine how many ED visits take place today.

 

[Hector12]

The rise in incarceration for violent and drug offenses has been working, then. We need to keep arresting more blacks and latinos and keep the trend going.

Because Negroes are so typically engaged in crime, anything that puts more of them into prisons reduces the crime rate.

 

[DudleySmith]

We're 'detaining' the wrong people. We need to get the addicts and users into secured treatment facilities for loooooong term treatment. Money is the life-blood of the illegal drug industry and it all comes from addicts and users, every penny. Remove the blood, the creature dies.

We don't have room for all the degenerates; many of the 'non-violent' incarcerations are actually violent scum themselves, so the numbers are misleading; the drug offenses are how they keep a lot of them off the streets, due to lack of evidence or witnesses who will testify against gangsters to convict them on the more serious charges. We just need to either sentence the gang members to death, since they are all guilty of all the crimes their gangs commit anyway, that would be the best solution. Membership alone is enough to round them up.

The only real way to handle runaway criminal gangs. Very successful, in fact.



If they have to jam 30 of them in cells with two bunks, so be it; fuck the thugs, They all know what they're joining. 'Human rights' belong to their victims and not the feral animals.

That little country found room for 66,000. We can find room for 10 million easy.

 

[Woodznutz]

We don't have room for all the degenerates; many of the 'non-violent' incarcerations are actually violent scum themselves, so the numbers are misleading; the drug offenses are how they keep a lot of them off the streets, due to lack of evidence or witnesses who will testify against gangsters to convict them on the more serious charges. We just need to either sentence the gang members to death, since they are all guilty of all the crimes their gangs commit anyway, that would be the best solution. Membership alone is enough to round them up.

The only real way to handle runaway criminal gangs. Very successful, in fact.



If they have to jam 30 of them in cells with two bunks, so be it; fuck the thugs, They all know what they're joining. 'Human rights' belong to their victims and not the feral animals.

That little country found room for 66,000. We can find room for 10 million easy.

Absolutely. The gangs are the distribution arm of the cartels, and every member is guilty of conspiracy. Tweak the R.I.C.O. laws to include this or write new laws to address it. Take the gangs and the addicts out and the 'side hustles' will die as well.