Nina Simone's "Baltimore" haunted my youth. She made me fall in love with that city. I would only note that along with the Biden-Harris policies you discussed, when a long-oppressed people see leaders who look like themselves and appear to be working FOR them, change can be newly possible.
Waiting for my childhood home, North Carolina, to cross the line into the future.
Accepted wisdom is that "Gun Solve Problem, Fast" while research and experience show "Gun Make Problem, Fast". Sadly that's much too subtle a distinction for your average Joe Holster to grasp.
Baltimore is an interesting case. If the homicide rate is lower than the 1970's that's saying something. On the other hand, the population has been declining for a long time as jobs and industries have left the city, and a lot of workers followed suit. I would like to see economic revitalization that prioritizes developments that promote income and wealth equality instead of exacerbating income inequality.
Freddie Gray was a "lead baby". His family received a settlement and got ripped off by one of those companies that buy you out for pennies on the dollar. And, much as I loved the Wire, in real life those cops were a bunch of crooks.
I met the mayor a few weeks ago. I was very impressed. Likable, funny, friendly, and committed to his city. My wife met the mayor a Governor a few years ago and felt the same way. Maryland has very good public officials. That helps.
You may have your faceless statistics but my social media feeds keep showing me murders done by black people and illegal immigrants, and anecdotes are more meaningful than data, so therefore crime must be going up, which is Joe Biden’s fault, even though he’s not president anymore, because he destroyed the country and Trump will need at least two terms to fix the mess.
Also crime is always the fault of the nearest Democrat. No Democratic mayor, blame a Dem Governor, no Dem Governor, blame a Dem President, no Dem President, blame Dem policies whose effect still lingers, or just “woke culture” which protects the criminal class.
Over the next three years, as long as the proven rapist Trump and the Gathering Of Pedophiles are in control, I'm willing to bet that crime, murder, inflation, unemployment and a bunch of other things will rise from the levels President Biden got them to after the last bad Gathering of Pedophiles president, whoever that was.
However, American security and respect in the world will come crashing down.
Another big reason: cell phones, not only can people Livestream their crimes for clout, but cops can get cell tower location data and place the perp at the time and place of the crime.
Crime rates also follow demographic trends. Fewer teens and young adults means fewer crimes. So you can do nothing at all and the homicide rate will decline if the birthrate was declining 15 years prior.
Biden didn't convince me, the only reason I'm not stacking bodies like cord wood is just because I'm just too damn lazy.
Nina Simone's "Baltimore" haunted my youth. She made me fall in love with that city. I would only note that along with the Biden-Harris policies you discussed, when a long-oppressed people see leaders who look like themselves and appear to be working FOR them, change can be newly possible.
Waiting for my childhood home, North Carolina, to cross the line into the future.
It's just with that crowd, the defenition of "crime" keeps changing, just like Christianity keeps changing the defenition of what a "sin" is...
My wife watches Britbox, apparently everyone in the United Kingdom thinks of murdering each other all day long based on their tv shows.
But they're so polite about it!
Ta, Dok. Excellent news. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Accepted wisdom is that "Gun Solve Problem, Fast" while research and experience show "Gun Make Problem, Fast". Sadly that's much too subtle a distinction for your average Joe Holster to grasp.
Baltimore is an interesting case. If the homicide rate is lower than the 1970's that's saying something. On the other hand, the population has been declining for a long time as jobs and industries have left the city, and a lot of workers followed suit. I would like to see economic revitalization that prioritizes developments that promote income and wealth equality instead of exacerbating income inequality.
Kevin Drumm made the persuasive argument that crime in the US started to decline one generation after lead was removed from gasoline.
Yup:
https://substack.com/@oppositeofoligarch/note/c-140585537
Freddie Gray was a "lead baby". His family received a settlement and got ripped off by one of those companies that buy you out for pennies on the dollar. And, much as I loved the Wire, in real life those cops were a bunch of crooks.
I met the mayor a few weeks ago. I was very impressed. Likable, funny, friendly, and committed to his city. My wife met the mayor a Governor a few years ago and felt the same way. Maryland has very good public officials. That helps.
You may have your faceless statistics but my social media feeds keep showing me murders done by black people and illegal immigrants, and anecdotes are more meaningful than data, so therefore crime must be going up, which is Joe Biden’s fault, even though he’s not president anymore, because he destroyed the country and Trump will need at least two terms to fix the mess.
Also crime is always the fault of the nearest Democrat. No Democratic mayor, blame a Dem Governor, no Dem Governor, blame a Dem President, no Dem President, blame Dem policies whose effect still lingers, or just “woke culture” which protects the criminal class.
Simple bet:
Over the next three years, as long as the proven rapist Trump and the Gathering Of Pedophiles are in control, I'm willing to bet that crime, murder, inflation, unemployment and a bunch of other things will rise from the levels President Biden got them to after the last bad Gathering of Pedophiles president, whoever that was.
However, American security and respect in the world will come crashing down.
Anyone want to bet against me?
Oh mysterious stranger in the shadows, is that your gun or are you just happy to see me?
Another big reason: cell phones, not only can people Livestream their crimes for clout, but cops can get cell tower location data and place the perp at the time and place of the crime.
3 Rule of Committing a Crime
1. Do it alone
2. Don't tell anyone
3. Leave your damn cell phone behind
4. Take public transit, be a climate hero while criming.
5. discard the murder weapon
Crime rates also follow demographic trends. Fewer teens and young adults means fewer crimes. So you can do nothing at all and the homicide rate will decline if the birthrate was declining 15 years prior.