[lvoc]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

It depends on what crime you are most concerned about. Theft? Meh, not so much. Violent crime? Ya, that's a big one.

To me one would be a deal breaker the other one annoying.

violent crime in LA was up over 20% in 2015. Cannot tell for sure but likely worse than LV.

So it is LA whose crime rate is going south. And that is because they are sending their scum to LV?

Does not compute.

[kttam186290]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

And compared to the person who is working two or three minimum wage, part time gigs to make ends meet, you're doing great. The vast majority of the people I've met who are doing really, really well have no empathy for the minimum-wage, multiple-job workforce. For instance, a great many of my friends from school/back home have no idea how SNAP works, but they're happy to comment about their perception about how SNAP works. That's the big problem.

It's good that you mentioned your dad. Because that's another root cause of problems. (Not your dad. But dads in general.)

The angry white guys who are fueling this latest round of political chaos are the sons of men who lost their family farm, lost their cabinet shop, lost their small hardware store and similar. The suicide rate for these men was off the scale. It was higher in the 1990s than it was during the Great Depression. Suicides were a major cause of death in the agricultural belt. These are men who concluded they were the failures of their family tree -- squandering the legacy of their ancestors and bankrupting the future of their heirs. Their sons believe they were failed by the generations-old social compact. And to a certain extent, they're right. (I don't condone what they propose to do about it. But these people were largely written off by callous CEOs and CFOs.)

It is no surprise therefore that crime is up all over the country. People see the old social order crumbling around them. Some of us are cheering about it. (Yay for the death of monoculture! Good riddance!) And others are donning bedsheets, or committing crimes. Or both.

I like most of your posts and I found your boldened words to be very poignant! However, then we get to your last sentence (underlined words) and you lost me.

Are the loss of family legacies and suicides of young white males really something to be cheering about?

Has the "progressive Left" (which you admit to being part of) really gotten so deep into their anti-white hatred that they would cheer on something like this? To me, that's vile. I have seen this sort of intense white male-bashing on Bernie Sanders support pages too.

[lvoc]

We still can't seem to get our minds around the fact that crime is down substantially since the early 1990s. The violent crime rate has decreased almost 50% from its peak in the early 90s.

Maybe something bad is underway. But we need to see a lot more data to understand it.

And it certainly does not appear to be Las Vegas specific....

[BBMW]

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There's the issue of shorter terms trends. We're hearing the same thing in NYC. Crime in NYC is a small fraction of what it was twenty five years ago. But we're getting the feeling that it's bottomed out, and turning upward again. The same thing may be happening out there.

[ScoopLV]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

I like most of your posts and I found your boldened words to be very poignant! However, then we get to your last sentence (underlined words) and you lost me.

I'm cheering about the end of monoculture. Not that an entire generation of a particular demographic was screwed over. We're shifting into a multicultural society. (We've always been a nation of many cultures, of course. But one group ALWAYS held the reins. Those days are gone. And good riddance.) There isn't a causal relationship between the shift and what happened to that generation of men who lost everything. (Other than the fact they couldn't see it coming and couldn't/wouldn't/didn't adapt.) They're not 100% to blame for their failure. But they're also unwilling to accept ANY blame for what happened to them, and their farm/small business.

[Merrily Gather]

Originally Posted by lvoc

We still can't seem to get our minds around the fact that crime is down substantially since the early 1990s. The violent crime rate has decreased almost 50% from its peak in the early 90s.

Maybe something bad is underway. But we need to see a lot more data to understand it.

And it certainly does not appear to be Las Vegas specific....

Originally Posted by BBMW

^
There's the issue of shorter terms trends. We're hearing the same thing in NYC. Crime in NYC is a small fraction of what it was twenty five years ago. But we're getting the feeling that it's bottomed out, and turning upward again. The same thing may be happening out there.

FWIW It's the year of the fire monkey in the Chinese New Year. Crazy, unpredictable, irrational things are supposed to be happening this year along the lines of increased crime, violence and explosive political revolutions. Everything moves quickly like the element of fire. That's just one side of it though. There are positive attributes as well. The influence of the year can be as much as 6 months prior to it and 6 months after the year is over. I read that the clever and curious monkey did indeed sneak in early because it is a fire monkey after all.

[laresistance]

Las Vegas Valley sees huge spike in violent crime - FOX5 Vegas - KVVU

See? Don't tell me I posted this thread for nothing.

[lvoc]

Originally Posted by laresistance

Las Vegas Valley sees huge spike in violent crime - FOX5 Vegas - KVVU

See? Don't tell me I posted this thread for nothing.

Did you read your own cite?

The Professor - "“We don’t know if this is a trend. We need more data from multiple years to compare, to go back a little ways,” he said. “Crime does ebb and flow to some extent.”

Read more: Las Vegas Valley sees huge spike in violent crime - FOX5 Vegas - KVVU

And it could be real. Appears to be going on in many places. So let us see what actually happens.

[kttam186290]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

I'm cheering about the end of monoculture. Not that an entire generation of a particular demographic was screwed over. We're shifting into a multicultural society. (We've always been a nation of many cultures, of course. But one group ALWAYS held the reins. Those days are gone. And good riddance.) There isn't a causal relationship between the shift and what happened to that generation of men who lost everything. (Other than the fact they couldn't see it coming and couldn't/wouldn't/didn't adapt.) They're not 100% to blame for their failure. But they're also unwilling to accept ANY blame for what happened to them, and their farm/small business.

How do you separate "one" from the "other"? Do you think it's really just a coincidence that one culture gets screwed over while losing their power and having to cede it to other(s)?

Sorry, but I don't. I think it was orchestrated. And that means a lot coming from me because I'm not one to buy into conspiracies. Regardless, you have to admit that the timing of it all is pretty intriguing, if nothing else.

And, on that note, do we "cheer" on the Chinese losing power in China? The Japanese losing power in Japan?

The French losing power in France? Germans losing power in Germany?

The UN Declaration of Human Rights explicitly states that every culture is guaranteed a piece of land on which to make their own laws and practice their own culture. So, when exactly did this human right cease to exist for American-born white people?

[Clarkcty]

See something, Say something, police at least the ones I have spoken to want to know what is going on in their neighborhood. I tell it like it is, I keep an eye on what is going on around me. We do have a 'Neighborhood Watch' sign posted on our gate and around our car ports.

Take your neighborhood and don't let it slide. You work hard to have your own home and these investors especially out of state investors are trying to ruin it by placing tenants who truly do not care about the community, many but NOT ALL tenants are scumbags.