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This is more about the social problems and conditions in areas with high murder rates than the murder rates themselves.
The neighborhoods with high murder rates often have high rates of poverty, gang membership, a sense of disenfranchisement (both real and imagined), drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, and so on.
Also, when the murder rate kicks off in those neighborhoods (think of the crack wars of the 80s), a lot of people are directly effected. People who know someone who was killed or know someone who knows someone, the sound of gunshots or even screams in the distance, knowing about innocent people who have been killed (and knowing it can happen to you), etc.
Doesn't this presuppose that every child who doesn't do well on an I.Q. test knows about a murder that might have just occurred in the neighborhood? Somehow that seems like faulty logic. Or could it just be part of the Excuse Epidemic that's running rampant throughout the country these days?
(I'm sorry; I wanted to make a longer posting, but I couldn't concentrate because of my Restless Leg Syndrome! Or perhaps it was on account of Shift Work Disorder).
Doesn't this presuppose that every child who doesn't do well on an I.Q. test knows about a murder that might have just occurred in the neighborhood? Somehow that seems like faulty logic. Or could it just be part of the Excuse Epidemic that's running rampant throughout the country these days?
(I'm sorry; I wanted to make a longer posting, but I couldn't concentrate because of my Restless Leg Syndrome! Or perhaps it was on account of Shift Work Disorder).
At least you don't have Robust Appetite Syndrome (RAS).
My IGD (Involuntary Gagging Disorder) just kicked in.
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