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Registered: December 18, 2005
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Crime has decreased thanks to abortion. No more crack whores having crack babies who grow up to be crack heads.
i stand for love and peace!
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Registered: September 06, 2008
Posts: 23
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quote: Originally posted by clpo13:
They claimed crime was increasing during the early 1990s, too, but crime actually decreased throughout the '90s. Don't believe everything the media tells you. Three-quarters of the time, it's just hype. The other quarter of the time, it's based on faulty or incomplete data.
Crime occurs usually because, in the case of the criminal in question, it pays. They might not have enough opportunities for a good job, so they rob a 7-11 to pay taxes or buy a new car, or maybe they do it just to get food. Most often, it's probably drug-related. Life sucks wherever they live, so they get hooked on heroin or meth to get a high. They need to pay for that habit somehow, which usually leads to muggings, robberies, etc.
The best way to combat crime is to eliminate the conditions which allow it to thrive. While having a lot of police is good for fighting crime, preventing crime before it even starts (by taking away the reasons people do commit crimes) is a lot more important. How to do this? I really have no clue. It would require a lot of time, tax money, and cooperation by many different groups of people, though.
Crime is not black or white nor does it discriminate. You should ask yourself what surroudings or enviroment is one living in to possess them to commit crimes. Majority of the crimes committed is non-violent. Most crimes committed are done by people are age or close to our age range. The media never tells the background information or the story behind one's doing so. Psychologists have said there may be a criminal gene that some people possess. How true is that I dont know? But all I know is if we can stop complaining about everything and do something about it then maybe this world we live in could be a better place. We can decrease the crime by giving youth a place to enhance or improve themselves, mentors for those with no parent figure, friends , etc.
Live...Love...Struggle...Model
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Registered: February 05, 2005
Posts: 929
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quote: The most effcient way to handle crime is to be less lenient towards criminals we need to be harsher by letting them off we are not saying anything. Captial punishment is a big no it will give a swift end to the criminals. But if he is allowed to sit and suffer he will learn and if he does not it will reapeat and then he will learn the error of his ways.
Yeah because somehow the dude with the life sentence is psychically connected to other criminals, so when they know he's in jail they'll crap themselves and become nice model citizens. Adress the social and economic issues that lead to criminal behaviour, like xenophobia, unemployment, and poverty. It has been proven hundreds of times by hundreds of statistical studies that strict punishment does not dissuade potential criminals. If you're broke, live in a ghetto, and don't have an education there's not much to lose if you get caught stealing. White collar criminals are another issue entirely but I don't think that's what you wehre referring to.
If god existed he'd be right winged
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Registered: November 04, 2007
Posts: 2
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The most effcient way to handle crime is to be less lenient towards criminals we need to be harsher by letting them off we are not saying anything. Captial punishment is a big no it will give a swift end to the criminals. But if he is allowed to sit and suffer he will learn and if he does not it will reapeat and then he will learn the error of his ways.
Sic Vic Pacem Para Bellum. Latin "if you want peace prepare for war
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Registered: November 05, 2004
Posts: 6100
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The irony of outlawing crime just kills me. If something is a crime, it is already outlawed. Outlawing it again...would make it legal? I'm not sure where things cancel out.
The more you know, the less you don't know.
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Registered: May 07, 2003
Posts: 7624
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quote: quote:
Originally posted by Kharybdis:
Clearly the solution is to outlaw crime.
Been tried, look at the list of laws and curfews. Outlawing crime would be as successful as outlawing alcohol.
Hahaha.
"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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Registered: September 14, 2007
Posts: 153
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quote: Originally posted by Kharybdis:
Clearly the solution is to outlaw crime.
Been tried, look at the list of laws and curfews. Outlawing crime would be as successful as outlawing alcohol.
It could be worse.
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Registered: September 19, 2007
Posts: 78
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crime happens out of greed and envy its stupid that the human mind can be twisted into believing these things are ok i dont believe in the death penalty but things have got to start changing
I wish my lawn were emo so it would cut itself.
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Registered: July 21, 2007
Posts: 12
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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets [war]." - Voltaire, _Candide_ Our penal system wasn't designed to rehabilitate. It was designed to segregate. To keep criminals poor and under represented. Ironically, the biggest crimes which affect us all are white collar crimes, far more devastating to our economic order. But laws aren't written by those who suffer under them. That has been known for a long time.
MBTI: INTP
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Registered: July 04, 2007
Posts: 2
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I live in a suburb near Philadelphia, which as you probably all know has been having skyrocketing crime rates. (the city, not where I live) Our newspaper recently said that there are more people dying there a day than in Iraq. I'm not sure if that's true, but I found it hard to believe..
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Registered: November 05, 2004
Posts: 6100
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They claimed crime was increasing during the early 1990s, too, but crime actually decreased throughout the '90s. Don't believe everything the media tells you. Three-quarters of the time, it's just hype. The other quarter of the time, it's based on faulty or incomplete data. Crime occurs usually because, in the case of the criminal in question, it pays. They might not have enough opportunities for a good job, so they rob a 7-11 to pay taxes or buy a new car, or maybe they do it just to get food. Most often, it's probably drug-related. Life sucks wherever they live, so they get hooked on heroin or meth to get a high. They need to pay for that habit somehow, which usually leads to muggings, robberies, etc. The best way to combat crime is to eliminate the conditions which allow it to thrive. While having a lot of police is good for fighting crime, preventing crime before it even starts (by taking away the reasons people do commit crimes) is a lot more important. How to do this? I really have no clue. It would require a lot of time, tax money, and cooperation by many different groups of people, though.
The more you know, the less you don't know.
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Registered: April 15, 2003
Posts: 1485
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Clearly the solution is to outlaw crime.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world. -- Eugene V. Debs
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