will crime rise??

[timo]

with the unemployment running out are we about to see a major rise in crime as peoples unemployment gets cut off and things get even more desperate?

[Luminous Animal]

1. Yes.

We are already seeing more muggings in San Francisco.

[eleny]

2. I have no doubt that it will

[leftstreet]

3. Whaddya call it when the Ruling Elite are stealing billions from the Serfs?

:shrug:

[flvegan]

4. Yes, especially as more municipalities criminalize "panhandling"

Ask for assistance on the corner? That's a criminal act now in many places.

[demosincebirth]

5. Bigger the gap between the rich and the poor or the smaller the middle class

all equates to more crime.

[virgogal]

6. I don't know. Crime was very high nationwide in the 90's

and the economy was great.

[RainDog]

11. for some people

the economy was great for the tech sector.

the manufacturing sector, on the other hand, dealt with massive lay offs as companies moved their factories to Mexico, for instance, while the managers bought houses just across the border in El Paso. The companies could pay third world wages for people making tvs and washing machines - the stock holders were happy to see their profits rise, the corporations' bottom lines looked good... and in the meantime, working class people suffered.

I saw this happen in my town at the time.

But people in white collar jobs really didn't give a fuck (just as they don't give a fuck now.)

Which is why our govt. is a failure for the common person.

[northoftheborder]

7. I fear that it is inevitable.

[timo]

8. I am paranoid

that in a few weeks with the holidays in full swing things are just going to break, I am seriously considering holding off the trek to the inlaws in Mo.

[Imajika]

9. Err, yeah, your being paranoid...

You can make your trip to the inlaws safely.

Even if a UI extension is not passed, the country isn't going to explode.

[timo]

10. hmmm

not so much the country "up north" but down here on the border things are not looking so good, I am leery of leaving the farm with no one to stay and keep an eye on things.

[Imajika]

13. Well, your right, things are definitely much worse...

...in some places.

I am here in Northern VA and we haven't really felt the recession/depression the way many, even most, parts of the country have.

I am always leery of leaving the house without having some neighbors and friends check in and do a bit of housesitting, so I definitely see where your coming from now.

[RainDog]

12. I just hope they mug the rich instead of the guy down the street

Maybe some enterprising person could start a google maps list of places to find wealthy people to mug.

Sort of like a jobs program. Or linkd in.

:sarcasm:

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Absolutely, we might even see a riot or two

[bluetrain]

15. It's gonna get fucking ugly. I'm just waiting for the morning I wake up and my car is stripped.

[name not needed]

16. 167 police officers were laid off in Newark. Camden faces losing 180 officers.

If it weren't for the fact that someone got stabbed in front of City Hall, Trenton faced losing a third of their police force. I'd say the situation is pretty fucking bad.

[applegrove]

17. I think you often do when there is a lot of unused testosterone around. Without a chance of 'making

it', crime will rise. It always does.

[Canuckistanian]

18. As people get more desperate and less informed

It's almost inevitable.