Comments on: Battleground: Philadelphia

[usastrong1]

There are two types of criminals: those who are already criminals and those who become criminals. I will opine on those who are released from prison and continue to commit crimes. Dealing with (criminals) who continue to commit crimes is easier than stopping people from becoming criminals in the first place, but it must be done.
People like to blame the NRA because they mistakenly associate the NRA with gun crime. I%u2019m not crazy about the NRA or guns but blaming them is inaccurate because%u2026
Just today it was reported that two (white) males with long rap sheets burglarized a Connecticut home and murdered most of the occupants. Somewhere, a judge and defense attorney let these people out. Why?
I have heard different statistics about recidivism rates, etc. It seems that in most cases, they are high. Our legal system is more willing to let people out onto the streets than to put people who have clearly shown they are not going to follow the rules in jail forever. Mechanisms should be in place to prevent the miscarriage of justice, but in most cases, things to which I am referring are not close calls at all. Our leniency runs the gamut from folks who continue to drink and drive to those who continue to commit violent crimes.
Therefore, if you insist on blaming someone, blame defense lawyers and lenient judges. These are the folks who are letting people who continue to terrorize the rest of us out on the streets.

[kilroy220]

what will stop the violence in our cities, will be when we recognize that we need to look at each other as a family. A human family that needs to love one another and not hate one another. I personally live by two scriptures. They are "Love the LORD your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength" and the second is like it, "Love your neighbor as yourself". If we would learn what it means to live by those two scriptures, the war on crime would end.

[phillyman701]

Philadelphia is a wonderful city with so very much to offer. It could be one of the finest in the US. It's a shame that it is getting this kind of coverage due to a narrow, ignorant segment of it's population. Most neighborhoods are wonderful. A few bad apples spoil the whole barrel. It's very sad.

[ncc1701pm]

Finally, I hit a nerve. OK, now the challenge, if you can, name a major U.S. city with a large black population that does not have a high violent crime rate. I %u2018m talking Rape, and Murder or any other violent crime you can think of. You do that and I%u2019ll name the cities in contrast with very low violent crime rates, the same sized cities, but, without the large black population. Let%u2019s do this and see where it goes.

[adhowardmba]

ncc1701pm I see that you are a pseudo-historian. "Blacks commit more senseless killings than any other race on the planet?" More than who? Hitler's SS? Slave owners? If you look at the history of different races that make up this country, you'll find that all participated in illegal activities, i.e., the irish and italian mafias. Hmmm, I wonder if they commit "sensible" murders. Question, does being part black reduce your chances of committing a senseless murder? You're a joke. Poverty is the mother of crime.

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[aahpat]

TO: ncc1701pm at 03:16 PM : Jul 24, 2007;

I did address it.

I do not accept your racist interpretation of the statistics. The problem is not Black race culture or any of your supremacist theories of racial inferiority or difference. The entire premise of your note is disgusting. I tried to ignore it because it disgust me so much.

The problem in all poverty oppressed communities in America is the unregulated Jim Crow economic warfare being waged on people. Disproportionately minorities.

Make excuses to lock up large percentages of a given population, over generations, treating them like animals, then throw in their faces billions of dollars in opportunity that is best protected by illegal guns and you have a mix for the current reality.

[ncc1701pm]

To : aahpat

You just love to go on and on with your little %u201CJim Crow Drug War%u201D rant. Well nobody reading this is going to take anything you say seriously if you don%u2019t address some of the issues I brought up in my last posting. Like I said, people just love to dance around the real issue and go off on some unrelated tangent and the problem never gets solved. So, you just go on with your bad self and live in the state of denial and everything will remain the same which is exactly the way you like it.

[aahpat]

In a world of dwindling economic and educational opportunity hundreds of billions of dollars a year in 'illicit' economic opportunity are thrust into their midst. Regulated only by the most aggressive gun play.

The drug war black market economy is creating chaos and instability on our streets.

This gangster fostering and terrorist funding Jim Crow Drug War absolutely does NOT "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare", as promised in the preamble of the U.S. constitution. The violence on our streetts and in the world are the proof.

[aahpat]

The drug war = political disenfranchisement and social disaffection in America on an ever expanding basis. Heavy armed. Alienated from the Judeo-Christian social norm that inspired community stantards prior to 1970.

Pronouncing zero tolerance for and then turning citizens into life-long criminals on the basis of something that at its worst is a disease, addiction is inhumane and the kind of social violence that begets the kinds of violence that we see on our streets today. violence begets violence. Decades of culture war/drug war violence on communities has served only to breed generations of disaffected half-citizens. Where at least in prison they get to count as 3/5's of a person for rural conservative safe-district incumbencies.