Violent Crime on the Rise
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.
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