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Street Combat – This Ain’t No Game! – Part 9 of 9, by Pat Cascio
Threats in the Future…Today?
Some so-called “experts” believe that future threats to our safety and well-being will come from our children. In a manner of speaking, they are correct in their assumptions. However, you need only watch the evening news to see that the future has already arrived. Read on.
Los Angeles, California District Attorney, Gil Garcetti, probably best summed it up when he said, “My God, this could happen to me . . . What is going on here?” Garcetti was in a news conference describing what was being called the “Wrong Way Shooting” of an innocent, little, three year old girl whose uncle turned onto a gang-infested street in Los Angeles. The precious little girl was killed by indiscriminate (gang) gunfire.
The Wave of the Future?
Gang violence is perhaps what the future holds, according to a number of recognized authorities in the field of criminal study, sociology, and psychology. Patrick F. Fagan, a Fitzgerald Fellow with the think-tank Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C., has an insightful and thought-provoking thesis on the subject of violent crime. In his thesis, Fagan stated, “Though overall crime rates have dropped slightly (emphasis added) in America in recent years, the frightening news is that both the level and viciousness of teenage crime have been rising steadily.”
On October 1, 1997, CBS news anchor, Dan Rather, reported Department of Justice figures showing that adults committing murders has dropped by 27 percent. On the surface, this appears to be good news. However, in this same news report, Rather reported that murders committed by teens has risen 141 percent! How does this bode with Fagan’s statement about an overall drop in crime rates? You be the judge!
Professor James Fox, a North Eastern University Criminologist stated, “Thirty-nine million children, 11 years old and over don’t have full-time adult supervision between the hours of 3:00pm and dinner time.” Fox further said that this is a “recipe for a coming crime wave. By the year 2005 a blood bath of teen violence will occur.” I’ve got news for Fox, it is already happening! Fox’s solution to the problem has been to “spend more money on (social) programs.” This is clearly the view that most Liberals hold as a solution to all our problems; they say that it is necessary to spend more money! This approach hasn’t worked yet.
Adam Wolinski, a noted criminal justice “expert”, expressed his solution when he said, “We literally need 500,000 cops on the streets at a cost of 30 billion dollars.”
Neither Fox nor Wolinski have confronted the real root cause of violent crime in America. Rather, Patrick Fagan believes that the cause is “the breakdown of the family.” Statistics and history back-up Fagan’s thoughts on this all-important subject.
While many so-called “experts” in law enforcement tend to point toward poverty or racial make-up as the primary cause of teen violent crime, Fagan pointed toward failed government programs that actually encourage the break-up of the family.
Washington, DC’s Answer
The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which was nothing more than cleverly disguised gun control and social spending by the Clinton Administration, is just the latest example of an experiment doomed for failure.
Source: http://survivalblog.com/street-combat-this-aint-no-game-part-9-of-9-by-pat-cascio/
