What is the cause of all the Crime in Jacksonville? (authority, murder rate)

[JBtwinz]

Killings no matter what are bad news. It's terrible we have to to count deaths but declining murders is a bright spot in a negative subject.

[Robyn55]

FWIW - here's a piece in today's Wall Street Journal about problems in the methodologies that are used to compile lists of "safe" and "unsafe" cities:

In Crime Rankings, Nuance Is a Victim - WSJ.com

[Hialeah_Rules]

What is the cause of all the Crime in Jacksonville?


Theories of crime

Social disorganization (neighborhoods) Social disorganization theory postulates that neighborhoods plagued with poverty and economic deprivation tend to experience high rates of population turnover.[13] These neighborhoods also tend to have high population heterogeneity.[13] With high turnover, informal social structure often fails to develop, which in turn makes it difficult to maintain social order in a community.


Social ecology
Since the 1950s, social ecology studies have built on the social disorganization theories. Many studies have found that crime rates are associated with poverty, disorder, high numbers of abandoned buildings, and other signs of community deterioration.[13][14] As working and middle class people leave deteriorating neighborhoods, the most disadvantaged portions of the population may remain. William Julius Wilson suggested a poverty "concentration effect", which may cause neighborhoods to be isolated from the mainstream of society and become prone to violence.


Strain theory (social class)
Strain theory, (also known as Mertonian Anomie), advanced by American sociologist Robert Merton, suggests that mainstream culture, especially in the United States, is saturated with dreams of opportunity, freedom and prosperity; as Merton put it, the American Dream. Most people buy into this dream and it becomes a powerful cultural and psychological motivation. Merton also used the term anomie, but it meant something slightly different for him than it did for Durkheim. Merton saw the term as meaning a dichotomy between what society expected of its citizens, and what those citizens could actually achieve. Therefore, if the social structure of opportunities is unequal and prevents the majority from realizing the dream, some of them will turn to illegitimate means (crime) in order to realize it. Others will retreat or drop out into deviant subcultures (gang members, "hobos": urban homeless drunks and drug abusers).[15]..


Subcultural theory
Subcultural theorists focused on small cultural groups fragmenting away from the mainstream to form their own values and meanings about life.
Albert K. Cohen tied anomie theory with Freud's reaction formation idea, suggesting that delinquency among lower class youths is a reaction against the social norms of the middle class.[16] Some youth, especially from poorer areas where opportunities are scarce, might adopt social norms specific to those places which may include "toughness" and disrespect for authority. Criminal acts may result when youths conform to norms of the deviant subculture.[17]
Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin suggested that delinquency can result from differential opportunity for lower class youth.[18] Such youths may be tempted to take up criminal activities, choosing an illegitimate path that provides them more lucrative economic benefits than conventional, over legal options such as minimum wage-paying jobs available to them.[18]
British subcultural theorists focused more heavily on the issue of class, where some criminal activities were seen as 'imaginary solutions' to the problem of belonging to a subordinate class. A further study by the Chicago school looked at gangs and the influence of the interaction of gang leaders under the observation of adults.
Sociologists such as Raymond D. Gastil, have explored the impact of a Southern culture of honor on violent crime rates

[Maria.Natovich]

There is no doubt that blacks are the main reason behind the recent crime epidemic in Jax, I am not racist but since we moved here a number of years ago I have seen it change and I do not feel safe anymore here. I know there are some very good Afro Americans but there are some very bad ones too, the cops need to be tougher with the bad ones.

[madcapmagishion]

did ya ever notice that crime statistics seem to get worse and reported on more often just before an election and blamed on the incumbant party and obviously improves as soon as the new guy gets elected and is now responsible for it makes ya wonder huh

[JayMcFly]

Originally Posted by coolyfett

So what do you think is the cause for all the crime in the city? There is no wrong answer.

Poor people
Uneducated people
Greedy people
Emotionally unstable people
Entitled spoiled people

That about covers why crime is anywhere.

[kathy dickson]

i agree, its poor parenting.

[FlyiMetro]

Originally Posted by Maria.Natovich

There is no doubt that blacks are the main reason behind the recent crime epidemic in Jax, I am not racist but since we moved here a number of years ago I have seen it change and I do not feel safe anymore here. I know there are some very good Afro Americans but there are some very bad ones too, the cops need to be tougher with the bad ones.

See the post before this one.

[Keith-n-Jax]

What crime?

[FlyiMetro]

Originally Posted by Maria.Natovich

There is no doubt that blacks are the main reason behind the recent crime epidemic in Jax, I am not racist but since we moved here a number of years ago I have seen it change and I do not feel safe anymore here. I know there are some very good Afro Americans but there are some very bad ones too, the cops need to be tougher with the bad ones.

Any tougher and the cops would kill the criminals. Do you agree that criminals should be executed before being booked?