[lvoc]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

I recently read (Reddit maybe) that the crime rate has dropped because of the removal of lead from paint and other products. The curve steepened after the last generation that was heavily exposed to it died off.

Of course drugs have taken over the "drive people crazy" part of society now.

There is also the Freakonomics theory that it was due to abortion and birth control.

I find it most interesting that my children are vastly more protective of my grandchildren than my generation was of our children. And this is in the face of a crime rate less than half of what it was when they grew up.

[vtvette]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

Heroin is hitting neighborhoods like the one pictured above -- hard. Real hard. Heroin use has skyrocketed. And it's skyrocketing in small towns which historically never had drug problems like that.

Absolutely correct. I grew up in a place exactly like that (Vermont). It's now the Heroine capital of the country. It's so very sad. I have more than a few friends and acquaintances that have died or completely ruined their lives due to drugs. This started with upper-middle class and well to do kids. I'm shocked at what I read in the news from back home (and also what I hear about that doesn't hit the news).

I feel here in Vegas you know what you get - It's a transient, multi-national city of 2 million of course there is crime. Coincidentally, a neighbor of ours brother has been a Metro cop for decades and says by and far most crime you hear about in Vegas is people who know each other, or drug deals gone bad.

Vermont is different - It has some of the best schools in the nation, a highly educated population, many small towns, you feel you should be escaping the crime of big city life. Nothing could be further from the truth. We lived in an upper-middle class are and the rash of break-in's (both car's and houses) were getting completely out of hand. The last year we were there a patrol officer would drive around the neighborhood a few times a year and inform anyone they saw there there was yet another rash of break-in's and be sure to spread the word and lock your cars and house. It didn't really help they'd just smash the car windows. This was drug users smash and grabbing looking for quick money.

Exerpt from article below:

"Two million dollars worth of heroin is pumped into Vermont each week, he said, and 80 percent of the state’s inmates are in prison for drug crimes. The highways running into Vermont from cities like Boston, New York, Holyoke and Springfield have become heroin pipelines. As Shumlin noted, heroin-related deaths nearly doubled in the last year alone, and the number of people treated for heroin addiction has increased an eye-popping 770 percent since 2000"

Bottom line is crime is everywhere.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...#ixzz3i4F0KOa4

[caliguy92832]

Originally Posted by NLVgal

As far a crime in general, five years ago, a murder would be big news. Now shootings are bylines.

Crime rate in Las Vegas, NV -

www.city-data.com/crime/Las-Vegas-Nevada

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by caliguy92832

Crime rate in Las Vegas, NV -

www.city-data.com/crime/Las-Vegas-Nevada

Not sure why you would reply with the crime map? I'm well aware of it.

[Vegas_Cabbie]

I moved here from Milwaukee... By the end of July of this year, they had already reached their homicide count for ALL of 2014.

I think I'm good here

[macgeek]

I have first hand knowledge that the crime rate is rising in Las Vegas,
every time I go into a casino, I get robbed.

(well, by a one armed bandit)

Jonathan

[C_A_Braun]

I am sure California A.B. 109 and Prop 47 are impacting crime stats in the Valley. Probably not as much as they are directly in California but there are certainly more people on the streets today that would and should be locked up and I am reasonably sure that they are not being good little boys and girls when they travel across the border into Nevada.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by vtvette

Absolutely correct. I grew up in a place exactly like that (Vermont). It's now the Heroine capital of the country. It's so very sad. I have more than a few friends and acquaintances that have died or completely ruined their lives due to drugs. This started with upper-middle class and well to do kids. I'm shocked at what I read in the news from back home (and also what I hear about that doesn't hit the news).

I feel here in Vegas you know what you get - It's a transient, multi-national city of 2 million of course there is crime. Coincidentally, a neighbor of ours brother has been a Metro cop for decades and says by and far most crime you hear about in Vegas is people who know each other, or drug deals gone bad.

Vermont is different - It has some of the best schools in the nation, a highly educated population, many small towns, you feel you should be escaping the crime of big city life. Nothing could be further from the truth. We lived in an upper-middle class are and the rash of break-in's (both car's and houses) were getting completely out of hand. The last year we were there a patrol officer would drive around the neighborhood a few times a year and inform anyone they saw there there was yet another rash of break-in's and be sure to spread the word and lock your cars and house. It didn't really help they'd just smash the car windows. This was drug users smash and grabbing looking for quick money.

Exerpt from article below:

"Two million dollars worth of heroin is pumped into Vermont each week, he said, and 80 percent of the state’s inmates are in prison for drug crimes. The highways running into Vermont from cities like Boston, New York, Holyoke and Springfield have become heroin pipelines. As Shumlin noted, heroin-related deaths nearly doubled in the last year alone, and the number of people treated for heroin addiction has increased an eye-popping 770 percent since 2000"

Bottom line is crime is everywhere.

How Did Idyllic Vermont Become America?s Heroin Capital? - Gina Tron - POLITICO Magazine

Police seize heroin, fentanyl worth $2.2 million in 2-state drug bust | Local News - WMUR Home

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by C_A_Braun

I am sure California A.B. 109 and Prop 47 are impacting crime stats in the Valley. Probably not as much as they are directly in California but there are certainly more people on the streets today that would and should be locked up and I am reasonably sure that they are not being good little boys and girls when they travel across the border into Nevada.

We do seem to be importing some interesting new people from CA lately. What did those pieces of legislation do?

[C_A_Braun]

Originally Posted by NLVgal

We do seem to be importing some interesting new people from CA lately. What did those pieces of legislation do?

A.B. 109 is the early release legislation the Jerry Brown enacted a few years ago to "ease prison overcrowding" and Prop 47 is the one that turned many felonies into misdemeanors both retroactively and going forward resulting is considerably less prison/jail time than a violator would have been subjected to.