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Politics - The World - Crime


  Crime statistics

Crime is not caused by poverty

Crime is caused by ideas, not by poverty

Family breakdown and the sexual revolution

Non-PC statistics

The death penalty

The Western poor

Crime

The state has almost ceased to attack innocent people in the West, with the Drug War being the last remaining major battlefield.

Apart from the Drug War, the major way that human rights and civil liberties are assaulted in the West today is by individuals attacking us. I do not see why we should tolerate this any more than we tolerate the state attacking us. Once the drug issue is resolved, it seems the spotlight of the civil liberties group should finally swing away from the state and towards crime:




Criminals named on Internet forever

The Internet is a serious threat to the privacy of criminals. It used to be that they were named in soon-lost newspaper reports. Now they are named online forever.


Crime statistics


It certainly looks as if something started to go wrong in the UK in the 1960s.
That crime rose despite society getting far richer.
Stats from here and here.


Likewise, as Ireland gets richer, it has more murders.
Stats from here.


How Ireland's wealth increased massively since 1950.
Contrary to left-wing dogma, this led to an increase, not decrease, in crime.
Stats from Angus Maddison.


As Ireland gets richer, it has more serious (indictable) crimes.
Stats from here.




Crime is not caused by poverty

Crime is not caused by poverty. In the modern west, crime has increased greatly as poverty has decreased over the last 40 years.




Crime is caused by ideas, not by poverty

Crime is caused by ideas, not by poverty. Most criminals in the west are not decent people, starving and "stealing a chicken to feed their family". Feed their expensive drug, alcohol and gambling habits, perhaps - while they beat up their family. Or just lazy layabouts who want a DVD player but don't want to work. Most criminals are greedy, lazy, selfish bullies. It's old-fashioned language, and it's annoying for them to hear it. But they need to hear it. Because that is what they are. They are not victims. They are greedy, lazy, selfish bullies.




Family breakdown and the sexual revolution



Non-PC statistics

Much political and social discussion takes place in the absence of statistics, and is driven by ideology (what we want to be true) instead of statistics (what is true). Even the fundamental difference between anecdote and statistics is not grasped by many people.





Figures for child abuse and neglect by family type.
Colours are hard to read, but top-to-bottom maps to left-to-right. ("Married biological parents" is gold.)
There are few findings as solid as the fact that children are safest (by far) when their parents are married and stay together.
From US Department of Health "National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect"
Hat tip Tony Allwright, Mar 2010.




The death penalty

Another strange position by western civil liberties groups is to be against the death sentence for murderers.


The "United Killers of Benetton"


3 year old Tesslynn O'Cull (above) was beaten, burned, sexually assaulted, starved, tortured, mutilated and finally murdered by her 20 year old "step-father" Jesse Compton in Oregon in 1997.
Compton was sentenced to death by lethal injection, but is still alive today on death row.



Benetton sweaters thought it would be in good taste to feature Jesse Compton in an ad for their product.
See petition to get his death sentence carried out.




Much of the population is to the right of me on crime




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