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After two years of rising violent crime, experts see a worrisome trend
A study by a Washington-based law enforcement think tank flags pockets of crime that cause alarm.
By Kate Zernike, N ew York Times
Last update: March 08, 2007 – 11:45 PM
Violent crime rose by double-digit percentages in cities across the country over the last two years, reversing the declines of the mid to late 1990s, according to a report by a national law enforcement think tank.
While overall crime has been declining nationwide, police officials have been warning of a rise in murder, robbery and gun assaults since late 2005, particularly in midsize cities and in the Midwest. Now, they say, two years of data indicates that the spike is more than an aberration.
"There are pockets of crime in this country that are astounding," said Chuck Wexler of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement think tank that is releasing the report today. "It's gone under the radar screen, but it's not if you're living on the north side of Minneapolis or the south side of Los Angeles or in Dorchester, Mass."
For Minneapolis, the study listed 54 homicides in 2004, 47 in 2005 and 59 in 2006 -- adding up to a 9.26 percent change. Minneapolis Police Department numbers vary slightly. The research forum surveyed 56 cities and sheriffs' departments.
Police departments blame a number of factors: the spread of methamphetamine use, gangs, poverty and a record number of people being released from prison.
But the biggest theme, they say, is easy access to guns and a willingness, even eagerness, to settle disputes with them, particularly among young people.
"There's a mentality among some people that they're living some really violent video game," said Chris Magnus, the police chief in Richmond, Calif., where homicides rose 20 percent and gun assaults 65 percent from 2004 to 2006. Overall, from 2004 to 2006, homicides and aggravated assaults with guns each increased 10 percent and robberies 12 percent.
And some cities saw far higher spikes. Homicides increased 20 percent or more in cities including Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Hartford, Memphis and Orlando, Fla. Aggravated assaults with guns were up more than 30 percent in Boston, Sacramento, St. Louis and Rochester.
The trend is mirrored in other places not covered by the report. New York City, for example, which had enjoyed remarkable declines, reported a 10 percent increase in homicides in 2006.
Many chiefs blame the federal government for cutting back on police programs that they say helped reduce crime in the 1990s. But they also cite economic and social problems.
"We seem to be dealing with an awful lot of people who have zero conflict-resolution skills," Magnus said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
I stated last year at Saint Paul Issues and Forums that we had a big problem coming with meth abuse and the young minority community.
One shooting after another and it isn't even summer.
Folks buy a big gun and don't venture out after dark this summer.
How about just getting out of town and going somewhere that has a Police Department that looks for crime instead of bad houses and tall grass?
Meth use seems to be what officials are labeling as one of the main causes for much of the crime increase as well as child neglect/abuse issues. In the Little House of Horrors article you will see that it has caused a lot of children to lose their parents which will eventually have an impact on their future in the juvenile system, children need loving biological parents, not foster home after foster home, that is not a stable home life for a child either. The article goes on to read that it takes 90 days for the mind of a Meth user to clear enough to even consider focusing on a treatment program and approximately 1 year of recovery and programs to stabilize a Meth user to the point where they can get back into society without using Meth, yet Minnesota continues to send Meth users into 28 day programs, then releasing them back to society only to see them relapse and return to treatment and/or jail. Why hasn't the system put together a program that will address these issues and help people with thier addiction so that they can become productive citizens and loving parents to their children, there isn't a substitute family that can love a child like their biological parents can... The future of violent crime is going to keep going up without the proper programs for offenders to rehabilitate them.
Nancy
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