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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Honestly, there is no way I would live in any area of Silver Spring in an apartment building or close proximity to an apartment building.[/b]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/05/30/police-fatally-shoot-man-during-negotiations-inside-silver-spring-apartment/

What I don’t get is why lower income residents of Silver Spring have such a higher propensity for violence than lower income residents in Fairfax or Alexandria.[/quote]

Ok? Nobody is forcing you to do that.

Though it is an odd conclusion to draw from an incident where the shooting and killing was done by the police.[/quote]
If you read the story, the man was holding a hostage. Who wants to live near unstable, violent criminals?[/quote]

If you read the story, the man was in the apartment with his mother. Please tell me where in Montgomery County it's possible to avoid living near people who have mental health crises, parents, and access to guns.

https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail_Pol.aspx?Item_ID=45317

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HE WAS HOLDING HIS OWN MOTHER HOSTAGE![/quote]

Well, that's not what the police news release says, but if that's what he was doing, then yes, that is something that people experiencing mental health crises do. Which parts of Montgomery County don't have people experiencing mental health crises? I live a long way from Silver Spring, nowhere near any apartments, and a family member called the police again for another welfare check on one of my neighbors, just last week.[/quote]
What is your basis for saying that he was having a mental health crisis? [/quote]

It’s in the police report.

You can go to the go fund me page by his family and they talk about struggling to help him with his mental health.[/quote]
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/[/quote]

Mental illness is not something only the poors have.

Mental health crises are not something only the poors have.[/quote]
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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [b]Saying that "population propensity is irrelevant" is a ridiculous statement epitomizes the luxury belief's of pretentious progressives.[/b] 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.[/quote]

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