Who do we blame this time?  Video games, single mothers of 5 children?  The school system?  Politics?  I don’t know, but violent crime is up again and on the rise from past years.  According to reports violent crime was up 2% last year, but even so, property crimes have dropped.  Does that make any difference?

Violent crime incidents — defined as homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault — have gone up 1.9% in 2006.  Homicides were up 1.8% also.  The violent crime rate is measured as incidents per 100,000 people.  The number peaked in the 1990’s and fell until 2005.

With all of that said, who do we blame?  I like to blame the single parents or the video games.  Rock-n-roll doesn’t work anymore, but the school system or movies is always a nice one to fall back on.  Or like in Milwaukee, it’s just too hot to not shoot someone.  Whatever the reason is, it’s not an excuse.