U of I shooting

God damn.

Too much violence. Feel sad for innocent victims getting shot and killed.

Too much violence. Feel sad for innocent victims getting shot and killed.

meanwhile, in reality, there's statistically never been a better, safer time to be alive than now.

 

So...

Damn, I lived at 2nd and Green senior year, was always in the area.

 

 

 

 

 

meanwhile, in reality, there's statistically never been a better, safer time to be alive than now.

 

So...

How the hell could that be true? Are you talking in America? Give me stats regarding cities of over 150,000. Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Kansas City. Murder, murder, murder. You make it sound like America is Mayberry. Cmon. Our country is DANGEROUS.

How the hell could that be true? Are you talking in America? Give me stats regarding cities of over 150,000. Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Kansas City. Murder, murder, murder. You make it sound like America is Mayberry. Cmon. Our country is DANGEROUS.

 

Violent crime is about half what it was 15 years ago. Here is a simple graph to show you this.

 

Given your field of work, it's surprising you get yanked like this. You've been suckered into the fact that so much more is in the news now than was before, which gives the illiusion of more crime. It's not reality though.

 

Now that said, there are always exceptions in there. Chicago's murder rate bottomed out a couple years ago, at a level of about a third of what it had been a couple decades prior. But it's spiked back up a little bit the last 2 years.

 

Violent crime is about half what it was 15 years ago. Here is a simple graph to show you this.

 

Given your field of work, it's surprising you get yanked like this. You've been suckered into the fact that so much more is in the news now than was before, which gives the illiusion of more crime. It's not reality though.

 

Now that said, there are always exceptions in there. Chicago's murder rate bottomed out a couple years ago, at a level of about a third of what it had been a couple decades prior. But it's spiked back up a little bit the last 2 years.

 

More than a little bit.

'Spilled drink' triggered Campustown shooting

 

Full breakdown of how the shooting occured

that boot camp did wonders for the shooter. Good job, judge

How the hell could that be true? Are you talking in America? Give me stats regarding cities of over 150,000. Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Kansas City. Murder, murder, murder. You make it sound like America is Mayberry. Cmon. Our country is DANGEROUS.

It's much much much less dangerous than at any other point in history. Not just our country, but the world. Fact.

Here ya go, greg Just a few pesky statistics to prove we live in the safest time in the history of human kind.

Edited September 29, 20169 yr by Reddy

See this is where politics gets in the way. You could also say there is no better time in history to be black, female, and/or poor in this country, and you would be absolutely correct.

See this is where politics gets in the way. You could also say there is no better time in history to be black, female, and/or poor in this country, and you would be absolutely correct.

 

Yep

 

EDIT: Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop striving to improve.

Edited September 29, 20169 yr by Reddy

Here ya go, greg Just a few pesky statistics to prove we live in the safest time in the history of human kind.

Well I guess you guys are right. Even though it seems very very dangerous. Sad that there was a shooting at a school today.