SobieskiSavedEurope
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The issue was black crime. Not poverty or the causes of crime.I'm grumpy because before 8 a.m. I was being called anti-American. I'm a terror prior to coffee and it hasn't quite worn off. Besides, I HATE math and I particularly hate questions like this where every article you go to gives you different numbers for the same issue. So you glaum onto 52% and I seem to recall something more in line with TN's first study that said something like 30%. For something. I don't recall if it was murder or crime or what in hell they were measuring, but it's all a tricky bullshit waste of time and your numbers aren't any more trustworthy than mine, truth be told.S
See? Now that is not nice.
You dispute my post, but offer nothing to back your position.
Why?
What is probably more to the point is that the black community still has a poverty level three times that of the white community and I know from years of social work in an all white community that poor is where the majority of crime comes from.
Like I said a lot of posts ago, breaking the cycle of poverty is a big one but breaking the drug cartels that prey on our people and finding a way to reform our justice system to TREAT addicts rather than incarcerate them is one way to stop ruining poor people's lives. Once you've done time, your chances of EVER getting a decent job tank. Meaning a life of repeated crime. People gonna eat. You can't stop them until you shoot them.
However, I generally agree with your point that poverty can cause crime, though during the Great Depression very little crime was committed...so there may be an argument to be made to dispute that.
I refer you to Thomas Sowell.
The Inconvenient Truth about Ghetto Communities’ Social Breakdown
The real cause of Poverty and Crime is culture and values. As has been proven over again, the path that reduces poverty and crime is: get an education, get a decent job, get married and then have children (and stay married).
The rather controversial book the Bell Curve, really would be a great connector, that low IQ's foster such issues on the whole.
It does make sense, I mean people with good impulse, and planning skills are more likely to probably have higher IQ's, but also are more likely to plan out their future.
Murray's book "Losing Ground" is a better read regarding what the destruction of traditional values does to the lower income cohorts.
While I certainly don't deny that there's some strong environmental impacts.
It would sure seem that some individuals would be more prone to degeneracy.
I mean some people still have held pretty normal values since the 1960's, while many have not.
Why is that? Why would some be more prone than others?
Maybe because certain factors like high Testosterone, low IQ's, and low MAO-A levels lead to degeneracy?