Rural Whites turn to Violent Crime in Droves Amid Drug Addiction and Mass Unemployment

[MarcATL]

The loss of jobs and the opioid epidemic are two of the biggest reasons.

(AP)
When you think about crime, what do you picture? Probably the dark and scary streets of a crowded city. After all, cop shows always seem to be set in big cities.

But while violent crime is still a problem in urban areas, many of them are in fact safer now than they’ve been in decades. The violent crime rate in rural areas, meanwhile, has climbed above the national average for the first time in 10 years.

In Iowa, the overall violent crime rate rose by 3 percent between 2006 and 2016, but shot up by 50 percent in communities with fewer than 10,000 residents. Violent crime rates have doubled in rural counties in West Virginia over the past couple of decades, while tripling in New Hampshire. “Rural areas, which traditionally have had lower crime rates, have seen dramatic increases in incarceration rates,” says Jacob Kang-Brown, a senior research associate with the Vera Institute of Justice. “We see them now having the highest incarceration rates in the country.”


The explanations for this change are familiar ones. Not all rural areas are poor, but many have lost jobs as factories have closed and farming has become increasingly consolidated. Lack of employment has naturally led to increases in poverty, which is closely associated with crime. The opioid epidemic has hit rural America particularly hard, and methamphetamine remains a major problem in many small towns.

In Rural America, Violent Crime Reaches Highest Level in a Decade

 

[JBvM]

You've learned, and now teach how to fight fire with fire, or serve up the same meal to the crowd. LOL

Love the framing and context

too funny and also spot on

 

[shockedcanadian]

The loss of jobs and the opioid epidemic are two of the biggest reasons.

(AP)
When you think about crime, what do you picture? Probably the dark and scary streets of a crowded city. After all, cop shows always seem to be set in big cities.

But while violent crime is still a problem in urban areas, many of them are in fact safer now than they’ve been in decades. The violent crime rate in rural areas, meanwhile, has climbed above the national average for the first time in 10 years.

In Iowa, the overall violent crime rate rose by 3 percent between 2006 and 2016, but shot up by 50 percent in communities with fewer than 10,000 residents. Violent crime rates have doubled in rural counties in West Virginia over the past couple of decades, while tripling in New Hampshire. “Rural areas, which traditionally have had lower crime rates, have seen dramatic increases in incarceration rates,” says Jacob Kang-Brown, a senior research associate with the Vera Institute of Justice. “We see them now having the highest incarceration rates in the country.”


The explanations for this change are familiar ones. Not all rural areas are poor, but many have lost jobs as factories have closed and farming has become increasingly consolidated. Lack of employment has naturally led to increases in poverty, which is closely associated with crime. The opioid epidemic has hit rural America particularly hard, and methamphetamine remains a major problem in many small towns.

In Rural America, Violent Crime Reaches Highest Level in a Decade

Both are the result of foreign nations, China and Mexico. It would seem this was intentional, to ensure those losing their industries to China are too strung out to care.

Fight back America. Crush the Communist government of China.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The loss of jobs and the opioid epidemic are two of the biggest reasons.

(AP)
When you think about crime, what do you picture? Probably the dark and scary streets of a crowded city. After all, cop shows always seem to be set in big cities.

But while violent crime is still a problem in urban areas, many of them are in fact safer now than they’ve been in decades. The violent crime rate in rural areas, meanwhile, has climbed above the national average for the first time in 10 years.

In Iowa, the overall violent crime rate rose by 3 percent between 2006 and 2016, but shot up by 50 percent in communities with fewer than 10,000 residents. Violent crime rates have doubled in rural counties in West Virginia over the past couple of decades, while tripling in New Hampshire. “Rural areas, which traditionally have had lower crime rates, have seen dramatic increases in incarceration rates,” says Jacob Kang-Brown, a senior research associate with the Vera Institute of Justice. “We see them now having the highest incarceration rates in the country.”


The explanations for this change are familiar ones. Not all rural areas are poor, but many have lost jobs as factories have closed and farming has become increasingly consolidated. Lack of employment has naturally led to increases in poverty, which is closely associated with crime. The opioid epidemic has hit rural America particularly hard, and methamphetamine remains a major problem in many small towns.

In Rural America, Violent Crime Reaches Highest Level in a Decade

Stats please.

 

[Oddball]

Cooking up meth in rural areas doesn't draw the attention that it does in cities.

 

[JBvM]

The loss of jobs and the opioid epidemic are two of the biggest reasons.

(AP)
When you think about crime, what do you picture? Probably the dark and scary streets of a crowded city. After all, cop shows always seem to be set in big cities.

But while violent crime is still a problem in urban areas, many of them are in fact safer now than they’ve been in decades. The violent crime rate in rural areas, meanwhile, has climbed above the national average for the first time in 10 years.

In Iowa, the overall violent crime rate rose by 3 percent between 2006 and 2016, but shot up by 50 percent in communities with fewer than 10,000 residents. Violent crime rates have doubled in rural counties in West Virginia over the past couple of decades, while tripling in New Hampshire. “Rural areas, which traditionally have had lower crime rates, have seen dramatic increases in incarceration rates,” says Jacob Kang-Brown, a senior research associate with the Vera Institute of Justice. “We see them now having the highest incarceration rates in the country.”


The explanations for this change are familiar ones. Not all rural areas are poor, but many have lost jobs as factories have closed and farming has become increasingly consolidated. Lack of employment has naturally led to increases in poverty, which is closely associated with crime. The opioid epidemic has hit rural America particularly hard, and methamphetamine remains a major problem in many small towns.

In Rural America, Violent Crime Reaches Highest Level in a Decade

Both are the result of foreign nations, China and Mexico. It would seem this was intentional, to ensure those losing their industries to China are too strung out to care.

Fight back America. Crush the Communist government of China.

We in America are too busy fighting Enemy Russia and her Fifth Column within the US

 

[JBvM]

Cooking up meth in rural areas doesn't draw the attention that it does in cities.

please go away or drop dead. whichever suits you best.

you add absolutely shit to any thread you enter

 

[JGalt]

Where's this "lack of jobs", Chicken Little? I live in a rural area right across the river from Iowa, and things are booming both here and there. The County Sheriffs are doing a good job of locking up the drug-peddlers too.

Totally not seeing it.

 

[Oddball]

Cooking up meth in rural areas doesn't draw the attention that it does in cities.

please go away or drop dead. whichever suits you best.

you add absolutely shit to any thread you enter

Go piss up a rope, shit biscuit.

 

[Oddball]

Where's this "lack of jobs", Chicken Little? I live in a rural area right across the river from Iowa, and things are booming both here and there. The County Sheriffs are doing a good job of locking up the drug-peddlers too.

Not seeing it.

We have the meth cookers in Wisco...Much as they've tried, they still have drawn the attention of the County Sheriffs.

 

[MarcATL]

Where's this "lack of jobs", Chicken Little? I live in a rural area right across the river from Iowa, and things are booming both here and there. The County Sheriffs are doing a good job of locking up the drug-peddlers too.

Not seeing it.

Of course not.

 

[Oddball]

We in America are too busy fighting Enemy Russia and her Fifth Column within the US

You owe me a new irony-o-meter, dickweed.

 

[Rambunctious]

Human beings that abuse drugs will ruin their lives and often will resort to crime....human beings of all colors...why do you always have to separate by color?.....

 

[DigitalDrifter]

If they are meth heads and opioid users, fuck 'em.

 

[Likkmee]

"US rural areas".
Ghetto with lossa them thar trees N shit !

 

[JGalt]

Where's this "lack of jobs", Chicken Little? I live in a rural area right across the river from Iowa, and things are booming both here and there. The County Sheriffs are doing a good job of locking up the drug-peddlers too.

Not seeing it.

Of course not.

Bullshit, asscracker. Do you have a scanner going all day where you live? Are you on a first-name basis with more than several members of your local law-enforcement?

Your scare-mongering BS ain't happening here, hillbilly. I think you're just paranoid or something. or wait....could it be about something else?

It's about Trump, isn't it? Your imaginary crisis is all "Trump's fault", right?

 

[JGalt]

If they are meth heads and opioid users, fuck 'em.

That's my sentiment. Legalize the shit and give them all they want. Then dump 'em in a pit, sprinkle 'em with some quicklime, and cover 'em up with a D9.

Problem solved!

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

The loss of jobs and the opioid epidemic are two of the biggest reasons.

(AP)
When you think about crime, what do you picture? Probably the dark and scary streets of a crowded city. After all, cop shows always seem to be set in big cities.

But while violent crime is still a problem in urban areas, many of them are in fact safer now than they’ve been in decades. The violent crime rate in rural areas, meanwhile, has climbed above the national average for the first time in 10 years.

In Iowa, the overall violent crime rate rose by 3 percent between 2006 and 2016, but shot up by 50 percent in communities with fewer than 10,000 residents. Violent crime rates have doubled in rural counties in West Virginia over the past couple of decades, while tripling in New Hampshire. “Rural areas, which traditionally have had lower crime rates, have seen dramatic increases in incarceration rates,” says Jacob Kang-Brown, a senior research associate with the Vera Institute of Justice. “We see them now having the highest incarceration rates in the country.”


The explanations for this change are familiar ones. Not all rural areas are poor, but many have lost jobs as factories have closed and farming has become increasingly consolidated. Lack of employment has naturally led to increases in poverty, which is closely associated with crime. The opioid epidemic has hit rural America particularly hard, and methamphetamine remains a major problem in many small towns.

In Rural America, Violent Crime Reaches Highest Level in a Decade

Both are the result of foreign nations, China and Mexico. It would seem this was intentional, to ensure those losing their industries to China are too strung out to care.

Fight back America. Crush the Communist government of China.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

If they are meth heads and opioid users, fuck 'em.

That's my sentiment. Legalize the shit and give them all they want. Then dump 'em in a pit, sprinkle 'em with some quicklime, and cover 'em up with a D9.

Problem solved!

Yeah...it kinda goes along with liberals and abortion. While they're killing off their liberal spawn It's disgusting that they're killing children.
Give em all they need to kill themselves sounds like the better option.

 

[JGalt]

If they are meth heads and opioid users, fuck 'em.

That's my sentiment. Legalize the shit and give them all they want. Then dump 'em in a pit, sprinkle 'em with some quicklime, and cover 'em up with a D9.

Problem solved!

Yeah...it kinda goes along with liberals and abortion. While they're killing off their liberal spawn It's disgusting that they're killing children.
Give em all they need to kill themselves sounds like the better option.

I like the cut of your jib, sir. Can I subscribe to your newsletter?