At my LeftIndependent blog regarding the FBI crime report this week:
The Washington Post reported that “Violent Crime Is Up For 2nd Straight Year”
“A surge in violent crime that began last year accelerated in the first half of 2006, the FBI reported yesterday, providing the clearest signal yet that the historic drop in the U.S. crime rate has ended and is being reversed.”
(snip)
“While no one is certain of the causes, experts cited an increase in the number of young men in their crime-prone years, diminished crime-fighting assistance from the federal government, fewer jobs for people with marginal skills and even the ongoing growth in methamphetamine use in some places.”
Most crime is economic. People in poverty oppressed communities that are today being pressured by Chinese competition and illegal immigration for low wage factory jobs in our cities instead turn to the $ 144 billion illicit black market for drugs that entices them into America’s criminal subculture. As long as drugs are illegal the black market will grow, thrive and induce poor people to turn to a life of crime for personal economic viability. It is prohibition economics. the same prohibition economics that wisely motivated America to abandon the alcohol prohibition of the last century’s Roaring Twenties.
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