Off Topic · OT: Hockey Fights (page 2)

Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the course of the last half-century, rising significantly in the late 1960s and 1970s, peaking in the 1980s and then decreasing considerably in the 1990s. Over the past thirty years, the crime rate rose throughout the 1980s, reached its peak in 1991 and then began to decrease throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The year 2005 was overall the safest year in the past thirty years. The recent overall decrease has reflected upon all significant types of crime, with all violent and property crimes having decreased and reached an all-time low. The homicide rate in particular has decreased over 42% between its record high point in 1991 and 2005.

This is what you linked to, OrangeBlob. LOL.

The bolded is obviously a symptom of rap music.

Crime is over-exaggerated in this country due to a sensationalistic media and fear-mongering politicians. Our prisons continue to swell in accordance to our prison industrial complex locking people up over draconian, non-violent drug laws.

[Edited by - sebstar on 05-04-2009 11:20 AM]

the sugarhill gang caused the war on terror...

Posted by djsunyc:

the sugarhill gang caused the war on terror...

i told u all hockey's an evil sport... it makes people listen to rap music & a potential cause for global destruction & warfare.

i love how, outside of allanfan, no one even attempted to address the NUMBERS the government has placed in your laps. and allanfan i don't think your argument is very good at all.

however, i will say this-- my condemnation of video games, rap music, and illicit substance was not thought out enough. for this, i admit to a mistake.

that said...how one can argue that crime hasn't increased, that we don't live in a crime-ridden society, is BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION. the number of violent crimes has SKYROCKETED, not merely nudged upwards.

blame it on what you want; and im sure the answer is not very cut and dry. but the FACT is that crime, violent crime, has risen in the last 40 years, and it has risen by a very serious, substantial amount. who can argue this? i am not offering an answer as to why nor am i offering an aanswer as to what can be done, but common, what the heck?



[Edited by - orangeblobman on 05-04-2009 12:30 PM]

Posted by sebstar:

Crime in the United States has fluctuated considerably over the course of the last half-century, rising significantly in the late 1960s and 1970s, peaking in the 1980s and then decreasing considerably in the 1990s. Over the past thirty years, the crime rate rose throughout the 1980s, reached its peak in 1991 and then began to decrease throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The year 2005 was overall the safest year in the past thirty years. The recent overall decrease has reflected upon all significant types of crime, with all violent and property crimes having decreased and reached an all-time low. The homicide rate in particular has decreased over 42% between its record high point in 1991 and 2005.

This is what you linked to, OrangeBlob. LOL.

The bolded is obviously a symptom of rap music.

Crime is over-exaggerated in this country due to a sensationalistic media and fear-mongering politicians. Our prisons continue to swell in accordance to our prison industrial complex locking people up over draconian, non-violent drug laws.

[Edited by - sebstar on 05-04-2009 11:20 AM]

i don't see where i linked to this. is it on the original wiki page?

Posted by orangeblobman:

i love how, outside of allanfan, no one even attempted to address the NUMBERS the government has placed in your laps. and allanfan i don't think your argument is very good at all.

however, i will say this-- my condemnation of video games, rap music, and illicit substance was not thought out enough. for this, i admit to a mistake.

that said...how one can argue that crime hasn't increased, that we don't live in a crime-ridden society, is BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION. the number of violent crimes has SKYROCKETED, not merely nudged upwards.

blame it on what you want; and im sure the answer is not very cut and dry. but the FACT is that crime, violent crime, has risen in the last 40 years, and it has risen by a very serious, substantial amount. who can argue this? i am not offering an answer as to why nor am i offering an aanswer as to what can be done, but common, what the heck?



[Edited by - orangeblobman on 05-04-2009 12:30 PM]

no rap music, video games, tattoos, drugs, etc - is this what your world looks like?:

Yes. Second paragraph in the 'Crime Over Time' section.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_th...

things were starting to get better towards the late 80's...but then that ruffian tone loc had to come out with "funky cold medina..."

i ask you, my friends, why not?

Posted by sebstar:

Yes. Second paragraph in the 'Crime Over Time' section.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_th...

sebstar, i read the paragraph. and it is perfectly IN-LINE with what I have been presenting all along. 2005 - 30 = 1975. even according to my original graph, one can see that crime HAS indeed been the lowest in 30 years. since 1975. but what even the 1975 level is MORE THAN DOUBLE that of the beginning of the graph (1960).

also, in the same paragraph, i would like to point out that:

Over the past thirty years, the crime rate rose throughout the 1980s, reached its peak in 1991 and then began to decrease throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Recent statistics indicate that crime could again be increasing. The year 2005 was overall the safest year in the past thirty years.

so really, thanks for backing up exactly what i have been saying since the first post with that graph. here is the graph again:


we might not agree on a lot, but i don't understand what it is about this that we can't agree on? crime-ridden society, indeed.

it also seems that you've conveniently left out the sentence that i've bolded in this post. why did you do that?


[Edited by - orangeblobman on 05-04-2009 12:49 PM]

Posted by orangeblobman:

i ask you, my friends, why not?

all of these people are murderers - prob from too much tone loc?

Posted by djsunyc:

things were starting to get better towards the late 80's...but then that ruffian tone loc had to come out with "funky cold medina..."

i guess i'll chalk this one up as a W.



[Edited by - orangeblobman on 05-04-2009 12:54 PM]

Whatever you're trying to do or accomplish this time OrangeBlob...please stop.

You tried to post a misleading graph and pass off false statistics to promote whatever fact-deprived, conservative agenda you have floating in your mental. Your assertions and assumptions have already been chopped and screwed, thoroughly. The thread is a joke now. Try better next time, I guess.

Now lets just all move on...

Posted by sebstar:

Whatever you're trying to do or accomplish this time OrangeBlob...please stop.

You tried to post a misleading graph and pass off false statistics to promote whatever fact-deprived, conservative agenda you have floating in your mental. Your assertions and assumptions have already been chopped and screwed, thoroughly. The thread is a joke now. Try better next time, I guess.

Now lets just all move on...

LMAO.

my fact-deprived, conservative...statistics??

so when you can't respond to numbers, you resort to personal insults?

very interesting (not really) how your mind works, sebstar.

i urge you to go over my posts, the graphs, and the information that has been presented and then re-evaluate your conclusion; though, since you've got such an aversion to facts and numbers, i doubt you will be able to draw a different conclusion.

so yea, lets move on, because there's no moving going on in presenting numbers and factual arguments to you.

here's a cheers to the decadence:




[Edited by - orangeblobman on 05-04-2009 1:08 PM]