Double homicide in Silver Spring
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Anonymous
+1. Wealthy people want police. Generally, POC and poor people also want more police. It's the social justice warriors who don't want them, and unfortunately they mobilize well and have an outsized voice in these discussions. Stop and frisk does work and is probably the most effective tool. It's also not profiling-dependent, but instead is dependent on people engaging in behavior that causes reasonable suspicion, which everyone can verify with body-worn cameras. But again, it's a moot point in this area. |
Anonymous
Link the report. And I will also say this, I don’t want to live near people with a higher propensity to be violently mental ill. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7614874/ |
Anonymous
Mental illness is not something only the poors have. Mental health crises are not something only the poors have. |
Anonymous
Poor people have a higher propensity for mental illness, which is causally related to being poor. Poor people also have a higher propensity for violent behavior. These are just facts. I’m sorry that you don’t like these facts, but this is exactly why people keep getting murdered in Silver Spring and not Bethesda and why affluent people that live in Silver Spring away from poor people keep saying that they feel perfectly safe. When the residents that live in these apartments with the violence say otherwise. |
Anonymous
When it's your individual neighbor, population propensity is irrelevant. Just like you can be at low risk of breast cancer but still develop breast cancer. |
Anonymous
You forgot to snap your fingers. |
Anonymous
This is not so. |
Anonymous
This makes zero sense from any perspective. |
Anonymous
The statement about the correlation between poverty and mental illness is both factual and statistically accurate. Mental illness is a causal risk factor for poverty because it increases the probability that a person will struggle to hold a job and makes it more challenging to manage adversity in life. Most people who are poor do not have a mental illness, but people with a mental illness are disproportionately likely to become poor due to the challenges associated with having a mental illness. Thus, there is a correlation between the frequency of mental illness and household/ individual income levels. Saying that "population propensity is irrelevant" is a ridiculous statement epitomizes the luxury belief's of pretentious progressives. The residents that live in lower-income neighborhoods are disproportionately likely to be a victim of violence (in part) because their communities have higher (per capita) rates of mental illness. Most people with mental illnesses are not prone to violence, but the odds of encountering a violent mentally ill person will be higher if you live in an area with that has a larger % of people suffering from mental illnesses. Ignoring group level disparities does not make problems go away and it actually harms low-income communities to pretend otherwise. We need to invest more resources in treating mental illnesses and providing intensive supervised healthcare for the subset of mentally ill people that have a history of violent behavior. |
Anonymous
His brother called 911 and his mom wa screaming in the background "put it down put it down!" The brother later jumped out a window and fled, leaving his armed brother alone with their mom. Which is horrible no matter the circumstances. Whether the brother was the target of the man's rage or the mom was. It all just sucks. (I listened to the 911 call, and you can too on Broadcastify) |
Anonymous
No but people with money and resources like great insurance are more likely to be able to manage it so it doesn't result in violence. Not always. Just more likely. |
Anonymous
Yet Potomac and Bethesda kids have murdered their parents and others. |
Anonymous
“Kids”? There’s been one kid who murdered his stepfather and I don’t think this is a topic that you’ll want to pursue. |
Anonymous
That incident was 7 miles from the neighborhoods under discussion in this thread. |
Anonymous
Yes. The issue without question at all is guns. Full stop. |