juddling Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 U of I shooting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 God damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Too much violence. Feel sad for innocent victims getting shot and killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddy Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 03:11 PM) Too much violence. Feel sad for innocent victims getting shot and killed. meanwhile, in reality, there's statistically never been a better, safer time to be alive than now. So... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted September 25, 2016 Share Posted September 25, 2016 Damn, I lived at 2nd and Green senior year, was always in the area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 08:42 PM) meanwhile, in reality, there's statistically never been a better, safer time to be alive than now. So... How the hell could that be true? Are you talking in America? Give me stats regarding cities of over 150,000. Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Kansas City. Murder, murder, murder. You make it sound like America is Mayberry. Cmon. Our country is DANGEROUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthSideSox72 Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 10:44 PM) How the hell could that be true? Are you talking in America? Give me stats regarding cities of over 150,000. Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Kansas City. Murder, murder, murder. You make it sound like America is Mayberry. Cmon. Our country is DANGEROUS. Violent crime is about half what it was 15 years ago. Here is a simple graph to show you this. Given your field of work, it's surprising you get yanked like this. You've been suckered into the fact that so much more is in the news now than was before, which gives the illiusion of more crime. It's not reality though. Now that said, there are always exceptions in there. Chicago's murder rate bottomed out a couple years ago, at a level of about a third of what it had been a couple decades prior. But it's spiked back up a little bit the last 2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmags Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 26, 2016 -> 08:04 AM) Violent crime is about half what it was 15 years ago. Here is a simple graph to show you this. Given your field of work, it's surprising you get yanked like this. You've been suckered into the fact that so much more is in the news now than was before, which gives the illiusion of more crime. It's not reality though. Now that said, there are always exceptions in there. Chicago's murder rate bottomed out a couple years ago, at a level of about a third of what it had been a couple decades prior. But it's spiked back up a little bit the last 2 years. More than a little bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleHurt05 Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 'Spilled drink' triggered Campustown shooting Full breakdown of how the shooting occured Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted September 28, 2016 Share Posted September 28, 2016 that boot camp did wonders for the shooter. Good job, judge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddy Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 25, 2016 -> 11:44 PM) How the hell could that be true? Are you talking in America? Give me stats regarding cities of over 150,000. Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Kansas City. Murder, murder, murder. You make it sound like America is Mayberry. Cmon. Our country is DANGEROUS. It's much much much less dangerous than at any other point in history. Not just our country, but the world. Fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddy Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 (edited) Here ya go, greg Just a few pesky statistics to prove we live in the safest time in the history of human kind. Edited September 29, 2016 by Reddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 See this is where politics gets in the way. You could also say there is no better time in history to be black, female, and/or poor in this country, and you would be absolutely correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reddy Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 (edited) QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 28, 2016 -> 08:05 PM) See this is where politics gets in the way. You could also say there is no better time in history to be black, female, and/or poor in this country, and you would be absolutely correct. Yep EDIT: Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop striving to improve. Edited September 29, 2016 by Reddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 29, 2016 -> 12:02 AM) Here ya go, greg Just a few pesky statistics to prove we live in the safest time in the history of human kind. Well I guess you guys are right. Even though it seems very very dangerous. Sad that there was a shooting at a school today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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