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

[Muhammed]

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.

The stats cited in the article range from 2006 - 2016. The Obama Economic Depression.

 

[22lcidw]

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

The rise of the extremist feminists and extremist gay agendas have priority. White males are being emasculated just like African American males only they have a priority over white guys in agendas. And we are losing our excellence because of it. You do not have to believe me. The Asians are slowly taking over. And they don't play the emasculation game.

Wow, a really good example of the ignorance I was pointing out.

Notice the rant?

Notice there are no solutions offered?

Notice the racism and misogyny?

An example of an ignorant right winger working themselves up into a frenzy and imagining danger everywhere except where there really is danger.

Please stop it. There is no frenzy. Just not wanting more and more dollars stolen from my wallet. That gay Pulse Club tragedy was not done by some red neck It was done by an Islamic ally of yours. In Paris, instead of showing the red, white and blue lights on the Eiffel Tower, they showed rainbow colored lights for the tragedy. The same Eiffel Tower where the French have build a fence to protect it from the Islamic immigrants that moved there. You know that I know that you know that when of those crazies detonates a radiation bomb in one of your blue areas we will laugh. And the tragedy is that you do not know what the real world is.

What is it with right wingers, always wishing death and mayhem on other Americans? I don't read liberals posting that they hope all conservatives die horrible. I can't imagine wishing death on anyone much less a fellow Canadian.

Because it is you who do it. You can't help yourselves. Its your sickness. You went from ideas to insanity. I do not disagree with some of your planks. I would not type this if I did not see your buddies on many sites over the years promoting death and exterminations of people who do not agree with them. This is not wishing. It is the inevitable. You will get wha tyou deserve. How can I feel for people traveling here from Central and South America who are hurting when you have azzes protesting for the sake of protesting who get checks and benefits sent to them here and living a much more comfortable life? You do know our system will go into a bad way if the stock market ever collapses again don't you? All of those checks sent out in any way with loans collapsing and medical rationed. You do not believe in saving acorns for foundation. There are people who do. And they are losing the game.

 

[sparky]

That's probably because the death and mayhem is a result of liberal policies. And liberals won't figure that out until some of that death and mayhem they were responsible for, sneaks up and bites them on the ass.

Like they say, a conservative is a liberal who got mugged. I've already been where you are, so no thanks.

And here's were we can agree, after a fashion JG

I live rural , i served 3 deacdes in FF & EMS , dealt with a few OD's , etc....

Recent years saw a state prison errected and filled here, all the bells & whistles

The town became a waiting room for incarcerees , their cohorts and families, the gangs moved in, and the fertilizer really hit the ventilator

The state greased it all, incluing rents and employment kickbacks to landlords and (usually construction) jobs

the mental health community set up shop, and i'm talkin' serious shop out in the sticks

any given day i can stand out in front of the state offices ,and watch the hordes of dopers come/go w/fistful of my tax $$$'s , as long as they dance to the 'save the masses' policies we have

That so many can make a career out of it , and so many careers are spawned by it is some sort of cyclical BSDM , tax $$$'s go <poof> & the problem never really gets a solution.

~S~

 

[Correll]

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

Hence Trump's push on Trade.

 

[airplanemechanic]

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

It might really help to actually read your own article. They cover a 10 year period. 8 of which was under Obama, 2006 to 2016. But that makes sense. Obama oversaw the slowest economic recovery in the history of our nation and record high unemployment.

Oh yea....

Self pwnage is the best pwnage.

 

[Missourian]

Only TWO Missouri Counties had violent crime stats over HALF that of Saint Louis City's 1702 violent crimes per 100,000.

Scott County with 1051 violent crimes per 100,000 and Pemiscot County with 904 per 100,000.

My county, one of the most rural with a total population of 9,627 at last census had 14.2 violent crimes per 100,000 people...far less than 1/100th the St Louis rate.

Homicides and Violent Crime by County, MO

 

[justoffal]

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

considering that this thread was nothing but shit to begin with I can hardly see how it would be spoiled by anyone's entrance.

These forums are for interchange. If you doubt that I recommend you go back a read the USMB introductory comments.

The poster you're praising appears to be a
Maladjusted social helgrammite bent
On the theme of minority victim-hood.
His lack of balance makes him boring and predictable.

Jo

 

[sparky]

The opioid epidemic is a crisis, but Trump isn’t treating it like one

~S~

 

[pismoe]

nice thing about criminals in rural areas is that quite often they are Shot Dead by home owners , renters with no problem if the criminals are caught doing a crime . Doesn't work that way in big cities with their gun control on renters and home owners though . ----------- just a comment .

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Only TWO Missouri Counties had violent crime stats over HALF that of Saint Louis City's 1702 violent crimes per 100,000.

Scott County with 1051 violent crimes per 100,000 and Pemiscot County with 904 per 100,000.

My county, one of the most rural with a total population of 9,627 at last census had 14.2 violent crimes per 100,000 people...far less than 1/100th the St Louis rate.

Homicides and Violent Crime by County, MO

Urban areas are obviously more violent than rural. Just looking at shootings will tell you that. The bigger cities have shooting contests every weekend it seems.

Crime is obviously a problem everywhere but Democrat cities are the worst

 

[airplanemechanic]

Only TWO Missouri Counties had violent crime stats over HALF that of Saint Louis City's 1702 violent crimes per 100,000.

Scott County with 1051 violent crimes per 100,000 and Pemiscot County with 904 per 100,000.

My county, one of the most rural with a total population of 9,627 at last census had 14.2 violent crimes per 100,000 people...far less than 1/100th the St Louis rate.

Homicides and Violent Crime by County, MO

Urban areas are obviously more violent than rural. Just looking at shootings will tell you that. The bigger cities have shooting contests every weekend it seems.

Crime is obviously a problem everywhere but Democrat cities are the worst

With all due respect Gramps, how do you define a "democrat city?"

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

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

More Obama legacy.

 

[Leo123]

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

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

Your link takes me to a radical progressive site which links to another such site which purports to have proof of this insane and outrageous claim about ‘rural’ areas. It’s an opinion piece masquerading as factual reporting. Sorry but Mr. Kang-Brown is not an expert and Vera Institute of Justice is a radical leftist organization. I suggest folks go to your link and make up your heir own minds.

 

[tyroneweaver]

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

this is a test

 

[Disir]

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

Actually, this isn't hidden information. The difference is the media doesn't pay attention to it until they decide it's a priority. Then everyone acts like it's a new thing. It isn't. Meth is a huge problem. Huge.

Then you have a bunch of nitwits that jump up and down and scream about war on drugs and utilize statistics from the 1990s and incarceration rates or spend endless hours talking about legalizing drugs.

And ya, your major cities have had an increase in violent crime and to pretend otherwise is a disservice to people. Human beans. You know, where the focus should be rather than on scoring points about a created division between the city mouse and the country mouse.

 

[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

How can that be?

This is the Best Tax Cut Economics can do.

I know, right?

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[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.

Totally not seeing it.

So...you first say the sheriffs are locking up the drug-peddlers and then you say you don't see it?

All kinds of excuses from self-proclaimed conservatives. None of 'em make any sense.

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[Disir]

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.

So...you first say the sheriffs are locking up the drug-peddlers and then you say you don't see it?

All kinds of excuses from self-proclaimed conservatives. None of 'em make any sense.

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Nobody is locking up the drug peddlers. Those changes were rolled out over the last decade nationwide.

 

[Dragonlady]

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

The rise of the extremist feminists and extremist gay agendas have priority. White males are being emasculated just like African American males only they have a priority over white guys in agendas. And we are losing our excellence because of it. You do not have to believe me. The Asians are slowly taking over. And they don't play the emasculation game.

Wow, a really good example of the ignorance I was pointing out.

Notice the rant?

Notice there are no solutions offered?

Notice the racism and misogyny?

An example of an ignorant right winger working themselves up into a frenzy and imagining danger everywhere except where there really is danger.

Please stop it. There is no frenzy. Just not wanting more and more dollars stolen from my wallet. That gay Pulse Club tragedy was not done by some red neck It was done by an Islamic ally of yours. In Paris, instead of showing the red, white and blue lights on the Eiffel Tower, they showed rainbow colored lights for the tragedy. The same Eiffel Tower where the French have build a fence to protect it from the Islamic immigrants that moved there. You know that I know that you know that when of those crazies detonates a radiation bomb in one of your blue areas we will laugh. And the tragedy is that you do not know what the real world is.

That Pulse Nightclub tragedy wasn't committed by a terrorist infiltrating your country. It was committed by an American with a gun.

A radiation bomb? That's some threat. Are there still any of those things around? Testing stopped in the 70's or 80's.

We do know what the real world is Russky. It's full of people like you trying to destroy democracy and fair play and have us all living under murderous thugs like Putin. No thank you.

 

[harmonica]

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.

stats/truth are racist--we can't posts those