Harvard University debate team loses to New York inmates

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9. maybe or maybe not

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There were, for example 1,431,000 violent crimes in the United States in 1999. There were also 2,100,000 burglaries and 1,147,000 motor vehicle thefts.

Probably breaking in to somebody's house when they are not there and stealing their stuff is a "non violent crime" but I still tend to think it is evil.

Also in 1999 1,701,100 arrests were made for 'serious crimes' - that's (in thousands) 11.7 murders, 21.4 forcible rapes, 95.1 robberies, 359.7 aggravated assaults, 214.4 burglaries, 880.8 thefts, 106.1 motor vehicle thefts (less than 10% of the number of vehicles stolen) 11.9 arson.

Presumably many of those people also end up in prisons.

Here's a "non violent crime" I know fairly well - perhaps it was committed by a drug user. I used to own a laundromat. One night somebody broke in to the machines. Their take - perhaps $30 in quarters, and a nice pipe wrench.

Sort of a petty crime, you might think. Well, except for the part about doing $2,500 worth of damage to my machines and closing the business.

Who knows but that maybe some of the a$$wipes who did that eventually ended up in prison for drug possession. I can hope anyway.