Ok, found some numbers for my area here
Note: These numbers are from 2002 and are for one year. I also rounded up where necessary.
Robberies: 100. Per 100,000 people: 189. Per 100,000 nationwide: 146.
(I'm assuming this to mean bank robberies and such, since Larceny/Theft and Burglaries are listed seperately.)
Larceny/Theft: 1559. Per 100,000 people: 2940. Per 100,000 nationwide: 2446.
So it seems as if pulling off a conveinence store heist is easier than knocking over a bank. Of course, my area has slightly more nonviolent crime, i.e. thefts etc, than the average for the nation, but my area is a suburb of the poorest city in America so that's an explanation for it.
Why do the crime?
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Re: Why do the crime?
Well for most small crimes like muggings, most of them goes unreported and even if they are reported most of them get away with it.
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Re: Why do the crime?
I agree with you. from a rational point of view, crime isnt worth the risk.Stravo wrote:I've been watching alot of cop dramas over the last few months (CSI, CSI Miami, The Wire, Heat, etc) and what struck me as I watched these is the motivation of the criminals. Why do the cime? Absent crimes of passion It seems to me that if you pull off something big like a bank robbery or a major crime spree you will most likley be caught. If you run a drug empire, eventually you will go down and spend the rest of your life in jail. SO why take that chance? Why start down that path?
In Heat, Neil McCually (Deniro) has done several stints in jail and continues to do the crime, in several instances rationalizing it as "It's worth the stretch" meaning jail time doesn't frighten him. Yet paradoxically goes down fighting because he'll never go back later on in the movie - go figure. In the Wire (FANTASTIC HBO series, probably better than any later season Sopranos) the drug lord knows he might go down and plans out how his empire will run if he has to go to jail.
Frankly, jail scares the living shit out of me. Why not try to lead a normal life and avoid that entirely or is it a matter of they have nothing else, or this is the lifestyle they've been raised in and maybe even jail isn't that bad for these guys?
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