Originally posted by: bradruth
Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Class-ist rationalizing. Violent crime has been on the retreat for years, yet the media hypes it to continue the propaganda of "FEAR USA Inc.". ACTUALLY violent crime cuts across all demogaphic spectra, but is only hyped on the lower income brackets to continue the "myth" and thus perpetuate the stereotype.
If ALL citizens were allowed to carry concealed firearms, robberys and other violent crime would PLUMMET. However, burgularies of businesses would increase, because with no one in the store, it's easy pickin's and a store dummy isn't going to walk downstairs packing heat. Better that criminals be allowed to prey on the citizenry, as no one but the family cares if someone is hurt during a break in and loses his TV and car. One small insurance claim as opposed to a MASSIVE one from retail stores everywhere claiming from Smash and Dashes.
The lower class commits more crime than higher classes. That's how it is. They're also the most common victims of crime.
All citizens have the potential to do so in my state. Take an easy written test and ridiculously easy shooting test, pay the $40 fee, and there you go. Let me ask you this...if robbing businesses is so easy, why do criminals even bother robbing homes? Just go straight to the businesses now.
You missed the point. I said that IF citizens were all allowed to carry CW's, THEN business burgulary would increase. The reason Business Burgulries ARE NOT as common as Home is because Police do not give home burgalries the same priority as Business Crime.
In Sacramento and San Francisco, you PHONE iN your HOME break in report. They do not allocate any manpower to any investigation. The same was true in Small Town South Carolina. If you're a business, you get an officer at the door and a detective to follow up. How is the economy or the public served by allocating resources in this fashion?
'm sure you're aware that the lower class has traditionally higher crime rates and that they're also the most common victims of crime. As such, it is rare to encounter a crime being committed by a member of the upper classes of society. In such a case where it does happen, those in the upper classes are less likely to resist physically. Feel free to argue as to why that is...perhaps because they assume they can rest on their political connections to get them off.
I submit that the head of ENRON's action were as violent to his former workers, (whose pensions were plundered) as a beat down and losing your wallet in a parking lot to a couple of thugs from daHood. Being BRoke and Homeless as a result of this abject theft is no kinder than a punch in the gut. Yet there is rarely a PUBLIC "perp walk" of these criminals. Where is the deterrant action in any of that? If you're Juan LowRider, you can expect a boot in the neck if you back talk a cop. But if you're the son or daughter of the city's monied elite, the Police Chief schedules your surrender away from tha cameras to avoid "embarrasment". The embarrassment is the Police Chief for Brown Noseing these assholes. It only reinforces the US vs THEM mentality.
Remember the BullSh1t one of the ATOT'rs here in Sac got last year when his Mustang was stolen? HE had to do all the investigation. When he found it, they even blew him off iirc.
I'll bet you a doughnut that the occurance of crime is not that much greater in any particular portion of the socio - economic strata, just that the REPORTING of said crime is greater on the lower end, as it plays into the stereotype that the media plays into and exaggerates both to sell column inches of ad space and to perpetuate the constant call for increased "protection " by L.E.O. which comes at the cost of increased spending of TAX dollars for Law enforcement, rather than increased money for better schools, more books, and more and better teachers. Those three things, by the way, have been shown to reduce crime more than any other social panacea.
Low Hanging Fruit = dumbasses who do crimes right in front of you, with little or no work required.
Why exactly would I want to be a slave to propaganda?
I'm not saying you would, but to avoid the stigma of not conforming to "Department Policy", or at the risk of being labeled "a trouble maker" you might cave in to peer pressure. Many in "Blue" have. Hence the infamous "Code of Silence" that permeates all Departments.
Why would we not investigate home burglaries? If you want to take the skeptics point of view you can still recognize that WE have homes and would seek to prevent those crimes.
Budget. That's the reason I was given by the Sac County Sheriffs dept. The reason MOST depts let officers drive their patrol cars home is to extend the "aura" of Blue in their neighborhood. This "arua" effect has the tendancy to make the petty thieves choose "low hanging fruit" of their own.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not hatin', I'm just not buying the altruistic nonsense that is put out by LEO's. My brother takes just a little too much pleasure in giving a beating to a bad guy for my liking. Some of his fellow officers were schooling him how to mess someone up without leaving a mark. Sounds like a criminal conspiracy to me. But since they have a badge a gun and pick up a paycheck on Friday's, they're the good guys. Now what's wrong with that picture? Besides all of it?
That whole line of "All suspects are considered inocent until proven guilty in a court of law" that tags each episode of COPS is the worlds biggest "wink wink nudge nudge" ever.
At least have the decency to not insult our collective intellegiance.
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