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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMurder rates have risen. Our FBI Dir. thinks it's 'cuz of viral videos. Grrr.
He has no evidence to support that theory. Sloppy (or worse) thinking. Irresponsible as Hell to voice it. Morons or protofascist assholes.
Experts cannot agree on what to call a recent rise in homicides, much less its cause, but new data on Friday that showed a sharp spike in homicide rates in more than 20 cities rekindled debate over whether it was time for alarm.
The data showed particularly significant increases in homicides in six cities in the first three months of the year compared with the same period last year Chicago, Dallas, Jacksonville, Fla., Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Memphis. But almost as many cities reported a notable decline in recent months.
New York saw a 25 percent drop, while Las Vegass homicide total nearly doubled.
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The agencys director, James Comey, has linked rising crime to less aggressive policing the viral video effect, he called it this week, rejecting the more racially charged Ferguson effect. His theory, however, found little support from the White House, law enforcement groups, criminologists or even the group that gave him the new data on Friday.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/us/murder-rates-cities-fbi.html?_r=0
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Or something.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)This is on a neighbor's T-shirt. Another's about how his home is protected by Smith and Wesson. We don't talk social issues.
This seems on point.
Whats basically happening is these cities are becoming victims of their own success, said Professor Fox. "The crime rate cant go to zero, and when you hit really low numbers, it can only go up.
Mr. Fox said Mr. Comeys idea of a viral video effect was contradicted by the many cities that had decreases in homicides, even as police videos continued to emerge.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Which kind of puts some of the "culture in crisis" hyperbole we hear from some corners, in perspective.
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)In the 1950s it was horror comics. In the 1980s video nasties and then it was video games.
And now it's viral videos, because it couldn't possibly be guns now.
cali
(114,904 posts)As someone from the UK I can never understand America's love affair with guns, or the Gun Lobby's need to look everywhere else for solutions rather than what's right under their noses.
cali
(114,904 posts)to America's gun madness. And that myth accrued other images and mythlets over the years
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)Like King Arthur being buried in Glastonbury, along with the Holy Grail. And London being established by Brutus fleeing the Trojan War. Not a lot of room for guns there.
cali
(114,904 posts)Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)What precisely is the link between murder rates and guns?
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)We don't have either. It's not rocket science.
hack89
(39,171 posts)what does that tell us about the link between guns and the murder rate?
Other than that figures are probably being manipulated. It's not just murder, it's also death by misadventure, a trigger happy police force and homicide by toddler. All part and parcel of a rather pathetic need to hold onto a gun.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)allowed to beat and murder suspects with no fear of being recorded. He's full of crap.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Things that make you go hmmmmmm.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)There is no way to prove that ending segregation caused a spike in crime, and only irresponsible assholes would mention it.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)about due process and so is my mayor.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)That when the police start making an effort to scupulously follow the rules, because of the likelihood that someone is videoing them, criminals may take advantage? Possibly more crime is just a price we have to pay for better-behaved cops.
cali
(114,904 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)Last edited Sat May 14, 2016, 12:13 PM - Edit history (1)
cali
(114,904 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Besides the fact that most criminals aren't very bright, most violent crime -- especially murder -- is spontaneous, and therefore has absolutely nothing to do with videos of police brutality.
If we're playing the Maybe Game, then I'm going to do Bush's FBI director one better: due to constant exposure to real life snuff films starring real life criminals with badges, other criminals feel emboldened. Not because the police are doing their jobs, but because the police set poor examples.
former9thward
(32,025 posts)By Obama. Nice try.
apnu
(8,758 posts)Response to cali (Original post)
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villager
(26,001 posts)Frankly, none of them were the "change" I was "hoping" for.