Cedar Rapids shooting 2 dead 10 injured (Iowa City: home security, movies, middle school)

[smpliving]

As you may have noticed, I post links and include a small part of what is written in the articles. I try not to impose my personal views or tendencies to lean toward an opinion that might make it political and not appropriate for this forum. I also dont understand all the arguments for or against certain “solutions” proposed by our political parties and frankly I’m sick and tired of the back and forth instead of honestly working together in Iowa and the rest of the nation. Education, combatting poverty and drop out rates, improve racial relations, affordable housing, and in my opinion some reasonable gun control measures.

My purpose was to show how prevalent gun violence is in my Iowa community, the Heartland of America. Gun violence is an epidemic and yet it has become a way of life that we’ve become desensitized to in America, both urban and rural.

[atler8]

Originally Posted by smpliving

As you may have noticed, I post links and include a small part of what is written in the articles. I try not to impose my personal views or tendencies to lean toward an opinion that might make it political and not appropriate for this forum. I also dont understand all the arguments for or against certain “solutions” proposed by our political parties and frankly I’m sick and tired of the back and forth instead of honestly working together in Iowa and the rest of the nation. Education, combatting poverty and drop out rates, improve racial relations, affordable housing, and in my opinion some reasonable gun control measures.

My purpose was to show how prevalent gun violence is in my Iowa community, the Heartland of America. Gun violence is an epidemic and yet it has become a way of life that we’ve become desensitized to in America, both urban and rural.

Yup.
I repped you on all of this.
Thx

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Cedar Rapids. Police said they received reports of vehicle-to-vehicle gunfire in the 800 block of 15th Street SE on Monday night.

In a press release, police said the driver of the vehicle and a passenger were heading south on 15th Street SE when they were shot at.

The victims reportedly told officers a white SUV, with an unknown number of occupants, opened fire at them while passing by. Police say the driver of the vehicle fired upon reported the shooting was driven by a potential road-rage incident.

https://www.kcrg.com/2022/05/24/ceda...gate-shooting/

Other shootings in eastern Iowa over the past weeks but related to domestic disputes in homes.

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MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (KCCI) - On Monday evening, Marshalltown police were dispatched to Arnold’s Park for a report of a group of juveniles threatening each other. It was reported one of them had a gun.

An officer arrived on scene within two minutes of receiving the call. It was determined that a 14-year-old threatened to shoot another juvenile while pointing a gun at them. Police also say that the boy then fired the gun in the air.

No one was injured during this incident.

The gun was retrieved and the boy was taken into custody. He has been placed in juvenile detention.

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Shooting in downtown Dubuque over the weekend with 3 injured and another shooting Sunday night in Waterloo, 1 injured: all victims with non-life threatening inuries.

https://www.kcrg.com/2022/05/30/man-...ting-waterloo/

https://www.kcrg.com/2022/05/30/thre...oting-dubuque/

A shooting early this morning in Ames, home to Iowa State University. No info on the condition of the gunshot victim who is in the hospital.

https://who13.com/news/ames-police-i...ning-shooting/

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Shooting last night, Monday, in Waterloo. Gunshot victim in critical condition.

https://www.kcrg.com/2022/05/31/man-...rloo-shooting/

[Judge Hippo]

What's going on in Iowa?

Are the racial demographics changing?

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Another shooting this Tuesday evening near downtown Cedar Rapids in a low-income neighborhood.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - At 5:01 pm on Tuesday, Cedar Rapids Police responded to a report of shots fired in the 1500 block of 4th Avenue SE.

Witnesses reported two young male suspects had fired several rounds at a passing car and then fled on foot.

No injuries were reported. Officers on scene found shell casings and a bullet entry point on a car in the 1400 block of 4th Aveneue.

[atler8]

Originally Posted by Judge Hippo

What's going on in Iowa?

Are the racial demographics changing?

I'm not surprised to see a question like your first one of, "What's going on in Iowa?" asked here.

As for your 2nd question, the demographics are changing but slowly overall with some small cities or sections within the metro areas experiencing a faster pace of demographic change.
Iowa is still one of the least diverse states in terms of demographics. There's just no other way to factually put it.

Getting back to the "What's going on in Iowa?" aspect of things, I can't find a link for it now but I recently read a statistical analysis that noted that as recently as in 2019, Iowa ranked 43rd in overall crime or in gun violence. I just can't recall the exact details without a link but nevertheless, the fact that 3 years ago Iowa ranked 43rd in that specific type of serious crime, says volumes.
Yes, things can & have changed considerably over the course of the 3 years since then but keep in mind that crime has generally been on the rise nationwide since 2020. As such, any rise in Iowa's level of violence is basically mirrored, matched or even surpassed in many of the other 49 states.

Iowa is not an island nor an outlier in terms of the rise in crime.

I've posted on this thread before and suggested then that the op make a change in the data they were bringing forward here. And they have done so by branching out beyond where before they only reported on crime in Cedar Rapids.
But, the down side of any thread like this which reports and posts on nearly every incident of gun violence or something akin to "gunshots heard in the night", for example, is that via the posting of every incident here, the thread title on shootings in Iowa keeps on turning up in the forum state-by-state index.

Compounding that fact, the Iowa Forum area is one of the least active overall from among the 50 states and especially so considering Iowa's population size of nearly 3 and a quarter million. I cannot think of another state with over 3 million people that is as slow in activity on the Forum in terms of posting activity than Iowa. By virtue of that, any thread title for Iowa that shows in the index area often sits there for days at a time.

More specifically, I have repeatedly seen occasions of where nothing new is posted here for over a week at a time. Thusly, a thread topic will sit and sit and sit in the index and leave impressions to the causal observer.
As such, any person who regularly comes to the Forum and scans the index will constantly see "Iowa" and "shootings" here as a topic. That is the downside of a thread of this nature.

I did not say exactly that to the op when I posted here a few weeks ago but in doing my own regular scanning of the Forum index area, the only other state that I see that is consistently so connected to violence via a thread title is Illinois with Chicago being at the root of that.
In consideration of that fact, the index is in my opinion making gun violence in Iowa appear to the casual observer on the Forum to be far worse than what the situation warrants. The fact that Illinois and Iowa are by my observation to be the 2 states most likely to show up connected to violence in that index should give us pause as should also any incident of gun violence.

[Mathguy]

Originally Posted by atler8

I did not say exactly that to the op when I posted here a few weeks ago but in doing my own regular scanning of the Forum index area, the only other state that I see that is consistently so connected to violence via a thread title is Illinois with Chicago being at the root of that.
In consideration of that fact, the index is in my opinion making gun violence in Iowa appear to the casual observer on the Forum to be far worse than what the situation warrants. The fact that Illinois and Iowa are by my observation to be the 2 states most likely to show up connected to violence in that index should give us pause as should also any incident of gun violence.

Chicago is frequently brought up because of the political angles.

Iowa is brought up more because it's not expected there and apparently it concerns the residents a lot probably because especially in eastern Iowa you have concerns about "Chicagofication"

I have family and grew up near the Iowa\IL border and I hear frequently about the type of BS that goes on around the quad cities now that you didn't hear about nearly so much in the past.

Anyone intelligent and serious about the topic is going to look at the actual crime data and see that Iowa is still very safe.

Chicago on the other hand has had 13 of the 270 mass shootings in the US so far this year, but *most* of those are limited to bad areas and predominantly gang members.