Puerto Rico ruined by spiralling murder rate - 6x the US average

[expatriado]

Originally Posted by tropical87

I love how people try to rationalise horrible situations by saying "well, it's not the worst. There are actually a lot worse..". African war-torn areas are pretty bad, too. Perhaps locals in Mogadishu do the same, and say "well, compared to what happened in Rawanda, it's not too bad".

Just because it there is a higher rate of crime elsewhere is no reason to downplay the failure that is modern Puerto Rico

My family lives in Ponce, which overall has about 1/10th the crime rate of the greater San Juan Metro area, which accounts for about 85% of the violent crime on the island. Most of this is perpetrated by cognitively indigent people who have subscribed to to the drug abuse/gangsta/ghetto counterculture imported from U.S. inner cities and American media. These thugs are killing each other off at a high rate of speed, and though they are a scourge and a nuisance to the rest of us bona-fide Boricuas today, we can't wait for them to wipe themselves out (most hopefully) and for the sick, deranged anticulture of the American slum that they have brought to the island to disappear along with them. There used to be a time when Puerto Rico was Puerto Rico and very little else, when my fiancee (now my wife) and I could spend the entire night listening to soft music and looking at the stars on a lonely beach (among other things) without a care in the world. Those days are gone, but the hope of a future when the insanity that leads to gunmen mowing down children in a school and riddling a home with bullets or haters hanging a man from a tree is again pushed back to the nethers of the U.S., where it belongs.

[boricuarosa]

Originally Posted by expatriado

My family lives in Ponce, which overall has about 1/10th the crime rate of the greater San Juan Metro area, which accounts for about 85% of the violent crime on the island. Most of this is perpetrated by cognitively indigent people who have subscribed to to the drug abuse/gangsta/ghetto counterculture imported from U.S. inner cities and American media. These thugs are killing each other off at a high rate of speed, and though they are a scourge and a nuisance to the rest of us bona-fide Boricuas today, we can't wait for them to wipe themselves out (most hopefully) and for the sick, deranged anticulture of the American slum that they have brought to the island to disappear along with them. There used to be a time when Puerto Rico was Puerto Rico and very little else, when my fiancee (now my wife) and I could spend the entire night listening to soft music and looking at the stars on a lonely beach (among other things) without a care in the world. Those days are gone, but the hope of a future when the insanity that leads to gunmen mowing down children in a school and riddling a home with bullets or haters hanging a man from a tree is again pushed back to the nethers of the U.S., where it belongs.

That's harsh. That form of violence does need to be simply pushed back to the nethers of the US nor remain in the caseríos de Puerto Rico. The "gangsta" culture has been glorified for many years.