(07-17-2014 05:48 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(07-17-2014 04:14 PM)TPBlaze84 Wrote:  

(07-17-2014 04:11 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(07-17-2014 04:06 PM)TPBlaze84 Wrote:  

(07-17-2014 03:37 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  I reject the notion this is just a police problem. Society is becoming more violent and the police are the ones having to deal with that.

Try putting on that uniform and doing their job.

Statistically, America has become much less violent. Of course it's a hard job no one is denying that, lots of people still manage to do it without beating up teenage girls too.

False
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archi...-last-year

As sterling a source as "The Economic Collapse Blog" must be, a one or two year spike in crime is not statistically significant enough to declare previous trends of declining crime and violent crime to be null and void. At least that's what I think.

The tone of the entire piece is extremely sensationalist and anecdotal.

Are you sure violent crime has decreased or is it the way those crimes are reported?

That's definitely a possibility, I'm not sure. I did read while briefly looking into this that the definition for inclusion of rape and assault for these statistics has been widened a good bit as the years have passed, especially rape.