Why is there so much Crime in America??

Question

there is a crime being committed 5 seconds Crime is Big Business!! if we did not have any crime the judges's lawyers, and the Cops. would not have any Job!!!

Answer 1

The main reasons there is so much crime in the U.S. is that the unwashed masses nowadays no longer have any self-respect, nor respect for the lives, liberties and property of others, as well as a complete lack of manners and politeness when dealing with others.
Along with this is the bleeding-heart liberal mindset of the judicial system, allowing such easy plea bargaining and lack of proper punishment equal to the severity of the crime committed.
The courts need to bring back such punishments as chain gangs, the lash and stocks! If a DWI scum got ten lashes and had to stand in stocks for a few days in front of the courthouse while citizens threw garbage on them, I just bet there would be a LOT fewer DWI's to contend with! ! ! The same goes for junkies and all other petty criminals. If they faced punishment as portrayed in "Cool Hand Luke", there would be far less crime than we are forced to live with today! ! !

Answer 2

The crime starts at the top (the White House)!! When the younger generation sees that happening how can anyone expect them to become any different. I really don't believe it is because of uninvolved parents. True some may be because of that but the largest percent of crime is due to the fact that there is no way for the little person to get ahead. Unless you are already rich you can barely afford to keep a roof over your head and food on the table. Tax breaks are given to the rich who keep getting richer. There are plenty of parents who have been extremely involved in their childrens lives to no avail. Their children just made bad choices. Most criminals have never had to pay the consequences for their actions so they repeat the acts over and over again. I work seven days a week (at least 8 hrs. a day) and my son works two jobs (ending up to about 75 hours a week). Between us we can barely make ends meet. Rents are outrageous, food, gas, heat, electricity and medical are all off the charts. Cost of living raises are appr. 3% a year and yet all increases in essentials run at appr 25% a year or more. Why wouldn't people take the easiest way to make the most money the quickest. Unfortunately for them those ways are not legal. I have to keep my heat at 64 and can only afford to eat once a day after rent and other essentials are paid. Some people are worse off than me. This should not be the situation in America!!!! Yet, we have people in the White House who don't have a clue as to the situation. Personally...I don't think they even care. They would rather take the medical and social security from our seniors and give it to people overseas.

Of course, you have to remember, this country was founded and populated by criminals and rejects.

Answer 3

I think you are way off base about a crime being committed every 5 seconds.. Crimes are being committed by the hundreds, maybe thousands at any given moment. They say that crime doesn't pay but I think that profit is the motivation in the majority of crimes. If not for the money but for what the money can buy. I think drugs play a major part in crimes. Not just the buying, selling or using them but the things druggies do to support their habit. Prostitution, burglary, robbery, and the list goes on. I think eventually someone is going to suggest legalizing, taxing and controlling them but there will be a lot of opposition. Prohibition didn't work in the twenties and created all kinds of criminals. What makes it any different today?
There are 7,000,000 people either in prison on probation or on parole today. Of that number 2,200,000 are in prison. I don't think building more prisons is going to correct the problem. Seems like a catch 22 situation doesn't it??

Answer 4

There is so much crime in this country because we are morally delinquent. We have done much in our court systems to make someone else responsible for the actions of an individual. We blame everyone else except the person that committed the crime. It is blamed on his parents, his friends, his environment, on TV on video games or anything else they can think of.

And we allow it. We keep voting in politicians that empathize with these concepts and will not demand individual accountability and responsibility.

We keep insisting that Hollywood shows us more and more violence, more and more sex and more likable bad guys. We are becoming a backward culture.

We have thrown God our of Schools, and at once the rate of juvenile crime, juvenile pregnancies and juvenile suicide rose because we sent the message that God is not as important a an individual right to do what every we want.

We are morally bankrupt with little regard or respect for ourselves or each other.

Answer 5

Because we are NATION becoming filled with individuals who have no self-respect, and are without internal self-discipline. It is easier for people to cheat on a test instead of preparing for the test. It takes less time to steal something than it takes to earn the money to acquire it. Short cuts...everyone wants it NOW!
It surfaces in schools, in clubs, in friendships, in stores. Blame the INDIVIDUAL who CHOOSES to not follow rules and will choose to cheat his own mother if he could.

I feel sorry for much of the young GEN X who will never know what it was like to not lock doors, or to not worry about people trashing your residence just because they want to. The lack of drive within so many of the people in the US has brought on a lot of problems. There is the, "me first" or "you owe me" attitude in this country that is wrecking our society.

Someone could defend themself by saying he/she couldn't get a job so they turned to crime. Take a look at yourself. You would go to an interview and verbally or physically display your worst and not your best. Wonder why you can't get a job? Why would an employer take a chance putting a person into a $40-50K position if not sure the guy would show up "clean" the next day?

Answer 6

That's a pretty broad question. There is far more crime in big cities, esp. in the south, than there is in small rural towns in, say, West Virginia or northern Vermont. Police are under-funded, generally. 10% of the population in the U.S. owns 70% of the wealth, and institutionalized poverty makes crime more likely. It doesn't make it right, but it does make it more likely. The U.S. is also the world's largest consumer of cocaine, by the way, and drug money makes it all worse..

Answer 7

not only in US or America but all over the world its same but except in Arab countries. W H Y ? ? ?

just think yourself

there is punishment is very harsh, and preventing measures have been taken, for Example: Women cant move in public with revealing her figure, she must cover her self with lose cloths... so less chance of crime against women. if somebody commit he vll be punished harshly

every year all rich ppl take out 2.5% of their wealth for the poorer(its law of the religion of the land), so that poorer get some extent help so there vl be less chance of theft, robberies, decaity etc...
and many more things like that, that's the reason every big country in the world has 40% crime where as Arab countries has only 5%

just imagine if every rich man in the world distribute his 2.5% wealth to poorer..???

and every women covers her modesty instead of revealing her figure to others&provocating or attracting to opposite sex..........???

world vll bcome heaven up to maximum extent.

Answer 8

It's called "Corporate Greed" and was squelched under President Carter. That's why people talk so dis-respectful about him today.
At least he brokered peace between Israel and Palestine, something the present occupants of the White House haven't even lifted a finger to try yet.

Answer 9

We are too lenient. ~70% of all crimes are by repeat offenders. One strike, and you are out (either death penalty or life in prison with no parole). Instant 70% drop in crime rate. There is not one excuse to every commit a crime and hurt you fellow man. NONE.

Answer 10

WEll, Lincoln let a load of obsolete farm equipment go. Their ancestors are the brunt of the problem. Get rid of them, crime drops, a lot.