[FedUpInFtMyers]

It sure is educational and interesting. Everyday down here is like an episode of COPS and The Shield, combined! LOLOLOL

[sunrico90]

Originally Posted by FedUpInFtMyers

Hiknapster - Based on what I've seen in my neighborhood lately, I, too, am developing some theories why they're not more aggressive on real crime. I have seen some things here lately that are causing me to scratch my head a bit.

Can you let us know what the are "THINGS" that are causing to scratch your head a bit

[Artsywoman]

Originally Posted by FedUpInFtMyers

It sure is educational and interesting. Everyday down here is like an episode of COPS and The Shield, combined! LOLOLOL

HA! I said that a month ago to myself and to a friend on the phone in D.C. It is and that is why Cops is always filmed here. Have you noticed. I am a crime junkie and the crimes here fascinate me, because some of them are so "Florida." I mean that there are some real types if you look on the news sites like Tampabay10 and such, you will see what I mean.

[Artsywoman]

Originally Posted by TriMT7

Actually, this born up North, raised mostly down in South Florida in a colony of Northerners, student has dealt quite intimately for the last school year with people who live in "trailers in the woods" (was once even handed some nice photographs of the appalling conditions a client lived in with her three children)...providing legal services to indigent persons for free.

Rampant drug use, domestic violence, strange semi-incestuous relationships (people dating their step sister/brother), the hiring and using of illegal immigrants for family businesses, property theft and damage, child abuse...

I've heard it all, and I don't think I have YET to have a client whose birthplace wasn't somewhere in the panhandle or Georgia. Just face it: That sort of thing happens EVERYWHERE. The "Northerners" didn't bring anything to Florida that didn't already exist here. If you lived a sheltered, bucolic life and didn't KNOW it existed, hidden all around you because of Southern sensibilities and "keeping to onesself".... fine. But please stop pretending it was all peaches and cream and butterfly kisses before the dreaded Yankees decided to "re-invade" the Southern states in a re-enactment of the "War of Northern Agression!"

Not uh, I done seen some Trailers down the street today on Waters and it won't no tV Show.

[Tungsten_Udder]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

I don't know if I trust those statistics, especially Atlanta's. Back in the 90s, Atlanta purposely deflated its crime statistics in time for the Olympics. The police chief came clean about eight years later. Could be true, but who knows?

Yeah, I don't have a very charitable opinion of crime statistics as a gauge of how safe a place is, either. There are too many variables, including the fact that only a very small percentage of crime is "random", and even some crimes that appear random to others turn out not to be really random (the perpetrator and the victim really knew each other in some cases), the fact that many crimes go unreported by victims, facts about how crimes are categorized, and the fact that in many areas, crimes can be either under or over reported (the latter case includes things like classifying crimes under more serious categories) by officials for various reasons.

[MADEINTHEUSA]

Crime in Florida....... Oh what a loaded topic!! One of these days I'll have to sit down and type my own entry to this interesting thread............ *wink*