So many communities are experiencing unbridled crime.
Kids are engaging in this too easily.
While I don't know what is the solution, I have this model for the problem:
1. A sense of a personal moral bearing keeps you in check
-- When that isn't in place--
2. A fear that your community or family will abandon you
-- When that isn't in place--
3. The Law
We're at the level of The Law for many.
We need to solve the problem all the way back to #1.
Besides personal antidotes, can you show any legitimate statistics that show that crime is increasing?
In cities all across America, crime is decreasing.
@corlin
It depends upon which crime and the influence that crime has on society.
The smash-and-grab and random attacks are impacting my city and state. It might be due to the fluidity of news, but it is effecting my society.
Ok.
Noted.
@corlin
What's interesting is that the category of Burglary is historically low. But, the smash-and-grab incidents are causing people to fear going to downtown San Francisco. We're getting a bad reputation around the world. A month ago I even heard tourist in Copenhagen talking about us.
@JebKFan @corlin
I find that the conservatives I know will always being their arguments with "in my experience..."
Nevertheless, San Francisco is getting an unfair rap for crime overall even though it has been improving or staying steady.
I think it is the type of crime.
Smash-and-Grab gangs scare the shit out of people. It's a violent mob. Nobody wants to shop where a violent mob might hurt you.
And, retailers are getting hurt badly. My wife is a retail exec. It's really bad.
@jurban what say you to behavioral genetics?
For instance, the results from the Twin Studies?
Too close to eugenics?
@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN
I'd never default to that premise.
Even if there is a grain of truth in it, it is not worth getting distracted from seeking or developing solutions.
@jurban regarding solutions, if gene therapy can be accurate and effective for treating disease could it maybe help with "bad seeds"?
@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN
I fundamentally don't believe that genetics, or mental health, is a consistent root cause of any of these issues.
It may be an influence, but not a primary one.
The problem lies elsewhere.
@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN
I also don't believe in proposing solutions until you fully understand the problem.
You will probably miss or at least propose a sub-optimal solution.
@SunAcrossWater
I agree that a certain level of despondency is being reached. And, I think kids are more susceptible to it than the more hardened adults around us.
What do you think is at the core of this condition?
@jurban To get to #1 our first job is to love them.