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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 01:35 AM Original message |
7 People Shot, 3 Fatally, on Violent Day in Newark |
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alex cross (109 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 01:54 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's not the laying off of the cops, they can only be reactive, |
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truth2power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 09:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Lack of a social safety net. You're correct. But it's not the Republican way.... |
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cyclezealot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 09:49 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. you rock. |
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Skip Intro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 01:56 AM Response to Original message |
2. Catch the criminals and put them behind bars, for a long time. |
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liberalmike27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
10. I sympathize with them being screwed by unemployment |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 04:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
22. I'm with you on this |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 02:41 AM Response to Original message |
3. Cory the wonder boy appears to be having problems |
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Sirveri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 04:01 AM Response to Original message |
4. It's not the lack of cops, it's the lack of good jobs. |
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Cutatious (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 05:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Shooting people for lack of jobs? |
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Sirveri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 07:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. So you think if these people were making 250k a year they'd be killing each other? |
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Cutatious (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 08:29 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. So you think these people were killed for a load of bread? (sic) |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 11:16 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. How do you know? You've probably never really been hungry. |
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Hestia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 12:21 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Exactly Lonestarnot - read The Grapes of Wrath & They Shoot Horses Don't They? |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 01:50 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. I've been hungry - yet never |
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Celeborn Skywalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 06:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. Then |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 11:42 PM Response to Reply #11 |
27. I grew up dirt poor.. and never turned to crime. |
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Celeborn Skywalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 06:26 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. Then |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 11:48 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Crime more closely correlates to illegal drug activity, rather than poverty. |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 01:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. "So you think if these people were making 250k a year they'd be killing each other?" |
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Cutatious (95 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 04:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. That should only happen in a Mad Max scenario |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 04:07 PM Response to Reply #5 |
21. Do you deny that an increase in poverty causes an increase in crime? |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 11:52 PM Response to Reply #21 |
29. I do, and the DOJ agrees with me.. |
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11cents (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 12:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. I live in Oakland. Believe me, it's lack of cops too. |
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Sirveri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 05:39 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Oakland wouldn't need so many cops if the people there had a chance at a real future. |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 11:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
26. Crime does not correlate to poverty.. or unemployment.. |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
14. We have prison systems that are holding pot smokers |
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sulphurdunn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. I believe that an inverse realtionship |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 11:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
30. The data doesn't bear that out.. |
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Ruperto31 (250 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
19. I used to teach at Bergen School in Newark. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-30-10 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
25. And 8,724,553 weren't. |
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