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re: Societal question: Would you trade the crime of today vs 70s-90s?
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:29 pm to wackatimesthree
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:29 pm to wackatimesthree
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Is this what passes through graduate school these days?
a person who questions assumptions? 
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Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:30 pm to 4cubbies
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a person who questions assumptions?
You're not "questioning assumptions," you're making them.
You really don't see what you just did, do you?
Maybe you are as dim as you're acting.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:32 pm to wackatimesthree
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You'd have to know what public safety would be like if the incarceration rates hadn't gone up (plus the information you posted) to conclude that.
Exactly, but I assume this went over her head
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:32 pm to KiwiHead
In the 80s and 90s, Harris County had a wonderful district attorney named Johnny holms. He sent a lot of people to death row. Now I hardly ever hear of anybody getting death sentences. Guess it's those George soros da's we get now.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:33 pm to wackatimesthree
You’re grumpy this afternoon.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:33 pm to NIH
I'm a 50's 60's guy.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:34 pm to 4cubbies
quote:The problem is crime.
We have to accurately diagnose the problem
You are looking for root cause of the problem. You consider incarceration redress after the crime. Your point is, life in prison, does not bring a murdered loved-one back. It does not unwind vandalism, or economic loss. Far better to find a preemptive solution.
So what is it?
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:35 pm to NC_Tigah
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The problem is crime.
The result is crime.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:36 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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I don’t go often but the FQ isn’t nearly
As bad as it was during the COVID years
The Quarter is sort of a mixed bag. There's not a lot of true criminal type personal crime. Fortunately, armed robbery doesn't really work that well in our digital age.
There's still a rather prevalent group of crazies/derilicts that seem a bit more aggressive these days than they did in the past.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:38 pm to 4cubbies
Make me a sandwich
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:38 pm to 4cubbies
quote:Fine.
The result is crime.
The result is the problem.
What you are seeking is the Root Cause leading to the "result."
What is it?
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:38 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Regarding the quarter, I'm not even talking about crime per se but I think the increased police presence has made it less of a desirable hangout for the undesirables.
I remember taking some people there a few years ago and it was just huge groups of people smoking blunts (not joints) and kind of mean mugging everyone. There is less of that now, in my (limited) experience. I don't leave my uptown bubble very often tbh.
I remember taking some people there a few years ago and it was just huge groups of people smoking blunts (not joints) and kind of mean mugging everyone. There is less of that now, in my (limited) experience. I don't leave my uptown bubble very often tbh.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:41 pm to NIH
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No, we need more prisons.
I'm not sure if we need more prisons, but we definitely need no privately held prisons. I used to think that the prison pipeline was bs liberal talk, but I've seen enough to change my mind. Compounded by the fact that big corporations get cheap labor out of inmates, and private prison profits keep going up, there's really no incentive to cut crime. It's a big business, and people are profiting big from it.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:43 pm to Masterag
quote:I definitely have some contradictory beliefs when it comes to crime/imprisonment and the current private prison system. It's a tough issue
I'm not sure if we need more prisons, but we definitely need no privately held prisons. I used to think that the prison pipeline was bs liberal talk, but I've seen enough to change my mind. Compounded by the fact that big corporations get cheap labor out of inmates, and private prison profits keep going up, there's really no incentive to cut crime. It's a big business, and people are profiting big from it.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:45 pm to NIH
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Violent crime rate reporting has also dipped in most major cities since 2020.
Fify
Crime is waaaay up in just about every major city in the U.S.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:45 pm to NIH
Hard to compare. We didn't have the technology in the 90s we have today. DNA and surveillance back then was negligible compared to 2026. The crime today should be exponentially lower than it was then but thanks to the culture of coddling criminals and liberal prosecutors/judges, we have not made the type of progress we should have made. If the criminals of the 90s had to deal with the judges/prosecutors of the 90s and the technology of today, there is no way the crime wave of the 90s would have been that bad. They would have been a lot more scared of being caught than they were.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:48 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Up until even like the early 2000s getting "held up" in the Quarter was a very real concern and a pretty regular occurrence. I know from people who lived there during that timeframe.
You just don't hear much about it these days. I just wonder how much that has to do with the fact that the odds are pretty slim that a holder-upper is going to find anyone carrying any sort of significant cash at all. My suspicion is, it has gone a long way in curtailing that kind of crime.
You just don't hear much about it these days. I just wonder how much that has to do with the fact that the odds are pretty slim that a holder-upper is going to find anyone carrying any sort of significant cash at all. My suspicion is, it has gone a long way in curtailing that kind of crime.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:55 pm to NC_Tigah
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What is it?
It’s multifaceted. Mental illness. Breakdown of community. Collapse of social norms and values. Economic instability. Social isolation. Addiction. Family dysfunction. Lack of meaning or social investment. Distrust in institutions. Environmental conditions. Educational failure. Concentrated poverty.
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:55 pm to 4cubbies
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The result is crime.
LESS crime
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:56 pm to 4cubbies
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it doesn’t seem plausible that there is a one-size-fits-all problem or solution either.
There is a one size fits all solution but it would make women and soys upset
The sad thing is y’all know what it is and that it would work
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