Major Cities' Plummeting Crime Rates caused by Obama's Election!

[FrenchieCat]

Source: Washington Post

Violent crime has plummeted in the Washington area and in major cities across the country, a trend criminologists describe as baffling and unexpected.

The District, New York and Los Angeles are on track for fewer killings this year than in any other year in at least four decades. Boston, San Francisco, Minneapolis and other cities are also seeing notable reductions in homicides.

Experts did not see this coming at all," said Andrew Karmen, a criminologist and professor of sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

In the District and Prince George's County, homicides are down about 17 percent this year.
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The District is on track to have fewer killings than in any year since 1964, when the population was about 760,000 and Vietnam War protests were just beginning.
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In the years since, the city has struggled at times with civil unrest, the arrival of crack cocaine and the rise of street gangs. In 1991, the District was known as the murder capital of the United States, recording 479 that year. This year, there have been 79.

Last summer, the city was struggling with so much violence in the Trinidad neighborhood that police set up military-style neighborhood roadblocks and stopped people from entering unless they had a "legitimate reason." The checkpoints were so restrictive that they were ultimately ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Violent crime is also down in some of Washington's other large suburbs, including Montgomery and Fairfax counties.

Montgomery has recorded six homicides this year, putting it on track to have its lowest total since 1986.

more....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071902154.html?hpid=topnews


They don't say it was caused by Obama's election,
but I am.

Since the media appears to be able to say what it wants anytime,
I guess that I can too! ;)

[PretzelWarrior]

1. a car alarm outside just went off....and then I sneezed

so clearly this means I am allergic to car alarms.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Look, the media makes all of the causal arguments they want,

and no one questions them about it.....
or I never see it actually happen.

If they can make shit up on the fly,
well, so can I!

[PretzelWarrior]

6. I agree. I was actually siding with you in my peculiar way

[FrenchieCat]

15. I understand!

I'm just still mad from the last two days!
I feel abused and insulted by the media...

But you are my friend! :hug:

[CTyankee]

18. Frenchie, don't be mad, we've got to hold our heads up and go forward.

We're going to look back on this episode and say "Why were we so worried? He had this thing all along!"

I know, I get mad too, but then I remember how every liberal I knew, including myself and my family, was going practically out of our collective mind in the last few weeks of the election campaign. All we could talk about and think about was the latest polls and which states Obama was going to win and whether his strategy was working. We look back now and say "My god, look what he did!"

We have to remind ourselves that health care reform was never gonna be easy. He's gotten farther than any other president in our country's history. He's young, smart as hell and relentless. He's gonna outsmart -- and outlast-- the bastards.

[intaglio]

17. Herr Doktor Intaglio speculates that

the car alarm resonated inside your skull oscillating the funny wobbly bit at the back of your throat so hard that it tickled your nose - FROM THE BACK!!!!






:sarcasm: because otherwise there is always someone who will take you seriously!

[BlooInBloo]

2. I saved a bundle on my car insurance...

Because of Obama.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. I've noticed I've been committing a lot less random vandalism.

They might have a point.

[FrenchieCat]

5. See what I mean!

I'm gonna credit Obama.....
since he gets discredited for just about everything. :shrug:

[Cha]

8. I've been actually

committing random acts of kindness..and where did that come from?!:bounce:

[autorank]

13. You could always move to Baltimore or Dallas if you get the urge

Maybe a weekend. Gives you more time online :evilgrin: It's all good.

[Cha]

7. I'm thinking if it had happened

during bush's stranglehold they would have made a connecting point.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Remember the inauguration? How all of those folks were at the capital,

and no crimes were committed and no arrests were made?

That's when it started. :)

[Cha]

11. Yes, good times!

That's when the lovefest commenced:loveya:

[Uzybone]

10. LOL

my car would have been long stolen...


if not for my Obama sticker

[DarthDem]

12. You Know . . .

I know you meant this satirically, and it is damn funny . . . but it actually wouldn't be the craziest hypothesis ever adduced. He gave hope to some who had none and would have turned to crime, and so forth . . . I dunno . . . :shrug:

[FrenchieCat]

14. Anything is possible, ain't it.....?

The drop did start this year....
Not in the last 8 years of Bush!

[DarthDem]

16. And You're Not Even Talking About Unindicted White Collar Crime!

I'm pretty sure that has dropped as well since the, uh, last administration.

Anything is possible indeed!

[CTyankee]

19. There is a logic to this. It just may not be apparent to everyone yet.

I'm willing to bet that this thesis as set forth here has a solid basis.

Don't be in a hurry to rule this out, folks...

[Prism]

20. Meanwhile, Chicago is devolving into the tenth circle of hell

Which would seem to go against this theorem.