bucs90
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I see bucs90 has fled from his own thread after being thoroughly thrashed in a lie...
What lie? The murder rate did go up 21%. South Carolina has long had a violent crime problem. Over the past 20 years, police in this state have fought hard to get it under control. And slowly but surely they did. In the latter part of the 2000's, it really started getting under control.
But then, in 2010, the Tea Party took power in city halls, county councils and the state government. They instantly slashed budgets, starting with what is usually the biggest budget item locally- police. And within a year, a relatively low murder rate by state historic standards spiked back up to it's ugly, violent past numbers.
Funny how one year of radicalism in power can reverse years of hard work.
As for why the murder rate went up 21%, but other violent crime- robbery, etc- went down? Easy. When a robbery occurs, you get charged with robbery. When a robbery occurs, and the perp murders the victim, you get charged with murder. Thats how a few robberies went down, and murders went up.
Combine that with "UCR policing", where PD's see a spike in crime, and they label reports with only the most serious crime that occurred. So while a burglary/robbery may have occurred, if they kill someone, they title the report UCR just "murder".
Its fairly normal for murder rates to spike and other violent crimes see a slight drop. Because the murder charge wipes out some of the UCR reports for what would've just been a robbery or assault.
Gotta read up on this stuff to understand it.
what? I live in Ocnee county, you get thrown in jail for a day just for j-walking. they are dudes serving 6 months in jail for non payment of child support. their is No Work release.
Oconee is a far away land compared to North Charleston and the East Side of downtown Charleston. Two different worlds. I will say, however, to be fair....the upstate counties like Oconee, Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, etc, have been much less willing to slash PD budgets, well, sheriffs dept budgets anyway. The upstate still has some reasonable people who believe in law and order.