Category: Crime

Calmly Considered: Gun Violence in America

Jul 21, 2022

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mwkruse

in Calmly Considered Podcast Video, Crime, Politics, Public Policy

Allan Bevere and I reflect on the issue of gun violence in America.
The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality

Sep 10, 2015

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mwkruse

in Crime, Public Policy, Race

The Atlantic: The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality "In his upcoming October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families. "There's a long history in this country of dealing with problems in the African American community through the criminal justice system," he says in this animated interview. "The enduring view of…
I Stand With My Friends … Black and Blue

Dec 23, 2014

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mwkruse

in Christian Life, Crime, Public Policy, Race

There is an old joke about a mealy-mouthed politician who says, “Some of my friends are for this measure. Some of my friends are against it. As me for me, I stand with my friends.” I’ve always loved that joke, but through the years, I’ve learned that there are circumstances where standing with my friends…
Why the Increase in Justifiable Homicide by Law Enforcement?

Dec 9, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Public Policy, Trends: Social

The rate of justifiable homicide by law enforcement is much higher in the United States than in other developed nations. The number of incidents has increased since 2000, even as the crime rate has dropped markedly. (See Justifiable Homicide by Law Enforcement by the Numbers) Why is this so? The reason for the high rate…
Justifiable Homicide by Law Enforcement by the Numbers

Dec 4, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Public Policy, Trends: Social

It has been more than a week since a grand jury reported a decision not to indict Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown. We have no indictment decision by a grand jury in New York for Daniel Pantaleo killing Eric Garner. These cases are essentially classified as justifiable homicide. I've been listening to…
The U.S. imprisonment rate has fallen for the fifth straight year. Here’s why.

Sep 17, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Public Policy, Trends: Social

Washington Post: The U.S. imprisonment rate has fallen for the fifth straight year. Here’s why. The U.S. imprisonment rate has fallen for a fifth straight year, a run not seen since Richard Nixon was in The White House. According to data released Tuesday from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, while the U.S. incarceration rate is still…
Reasons to Be Cheerful

Aug 19, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Demography, Education, Environment, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Matt Ridley: Reasons to Be Cheerful We are prone to fixate on problems and threats. The news concentrates on Ebola, the Middle East and Ukraine violence, and the discord in Ferguson, Missouri. But it is important to keep present challenges (and they are more decidedly real) in context. Matt Ridley offers twelve reasons to be…
US violent crime is lowest in 44 years and half the rate in 1991

Jul 25, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Trends: Social

Carpe Diem: US violent crime is lowest in 44 years and half the rate in 1991
50 Reasons We’re Living Through the Greatest Period in World History

Feb 21, 2014

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mwkruse

in Crime, Demography, Education, Environment, Great Divergence, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Poverty, Public Policy, Race, Technology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

Huff Post Business (The Motley Fool): 50 Reasons We're Living Through the Greatest Period in World History I recently talked to a doctor who retired after a 30-year career. I asked him how much medicine had changed during the three decades he practiced. "Oh, tremendously," he said. He listed off a dozen examples. Deaths from…
Economics Links

Dec 27, 2013

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mwkruse

in Africa, Business, Capitalism and Markets, Crime, Culture, Economics, Environment, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Links – Economics, Poverty, Race, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

1. Carpe Diem: 5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History Fewer people are dying young, and more are living longer. … Global economic growth in the past five decades has dramatically reduced poverty and made people around the world happier. … War is becoming rarer and less deadly. … Rates of…