Why has the crime rate risen so significantly during the Bush years?

Question

After dropping very substantially during the Clinton administration, the crime rate has again begun to rise dramatically. Is it because Bush trashed Clinton's Crime Bill, which proved so effective in reducing crime?

Hey Chocolah: yes, look at your stats. Don't you see the upward trend that started about 4 years ago, as Bush trashed the programs put in place in the '90's?

Answer 1

Most of the money that was earmarked for crime prevention was taken for the war and for ( it makes me sick to even say this) homeland security.Homeland security has wasted more money since it's creation, than any other bureaucracy in our nations history,except maybe the military. Rather than prevention, police forces have to resort to violence to keep the peace because they don't have the manpower. It's a shame what's happened in this country.

Answer 2

I love how the Bush sheepies on here are so willing to dismiss any responsibility of the Federal Government (and Bush) so quickly, yet these same limited intelligence people were so far reaching and quick in there assessment of Vince Foster's "murder" by Hillary and Bill lol.

The fact is, the tone of how things are going to be over time is set by the presidency. Look at the Nixon years and also how much corporate corruption correlated in that time as it is today under Bush's reign of terror.

Bush is an idiot and a traitor to this country and you can tell the Secret Service I said so. I proudly served in the Marine Corps and under this president I'd never sign up or feed into his stupidity or murder of American service men and women for HIS and HIS Vice Presidential cronie's financial benefit.
It is shameful what they've done to this country at home and abroad.

Answer 3

I don't think Bush is the reason behind it at all. It is just the way the world is going. I think you'll find it to continue to rise even during Obama's time in office, if not even more so than in Bush's time in office. It is the parenting, or lack there of, that is going on in the world today. I used to live across the street from a cop in my neighborhood, and their son who was barely old enough to ride a tricycle, would be at the end of the street and they wouldn't even be paying attention. There isn't any discipline anymore, you can't even look at your kids with a pissed off look on your face with out someone calling CPS on you these days. Kids can do whatever they want with out any sort of punishment. Staying out later and doing what ever they want. They think having unprotected sex is okay, they don't think about consequences because no one ever enforces anything of that nature, so they are just running a muck, doing as they please.

Answer 4

Without sources, I don't know if what you say is true. But if I had to give my opinion as a sociology student, I would guess it is because Bush's policies increase inequality and this adds to frustration and desperation. When people's needs aren't met or when they feel slighted by the system, they find other ways of getting what they need or want outside of the socially accepted means. This is the definition of crime. The Bush administration has reduced access to health care and education, marginalized certain groups of the population (ethnic minorities and homosexuals), and generated a sense of fear through war-mongering. The economy has also suffered greatly during Bush's presidency (whether it is his fault or not). I believe this atmosphere of fear and dissatisfaction contributes to crime.

Answer 5

President Bush has nothing to do with the crime in this country...Crime itself is self perpetuating, in other words, it feeds off itself. Once someone begins a life of crime, it usually will continue until he or she is caught. Depending on the severity and the length of incarceration, they will probably not stop. We don't need more laws, just more people willing to step forward and enforce the laws we already have. Parents have the obligation to teach their children what society has proclaimed to be an illegal act. Understanding these laws takes a little intelligence, but nothing that the humane race cannot comprehend, like the Ten Commandment...

Answer 6

People who went to prison for drug crimes during the Reagan and Bush 1 administrations, who remained locked up through the Clinton administration, are getting out of prison in huge numbers.

And...they're reentering a community with very few jobs for which an ex-offender, especially one with a limited education, can compete. And most of the programs to aid with that type of reentry have been diminished or eliminated, so there are fewer resources to help them.

The result: they go back into crime.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

You made that up.

I just checked the statistics:

In 1996 (Clinton Years) there were 1,688,540 violent crimes and 11,805,300 property crimes in the USA.

In 2006 (Bush Years) there were 1,417,745 violent crimes and 9,983,568 reported in the USA.

Considering the increase in population, coupled with the fact that there werefewer crimes reported in 2006, the real crime rate was verifiably lower than in 1996.

Answer 9

War is the most hopeless activity any nation can get in to and it does things to the young people in the Country as well depress the hell out of the old.
Why should young people support the conventions of peace in their own lives when the Government uses bombs, guns, torture and prisons as their number one and on going method of resolving problems?

Answer 10

Well, I have my own opinions, but I'l stick to what law enforcement people have said. That is:

>Under Clinton, thee was a strong push for funding law enforcement programs, particularly those that aimed at crime prevention, community involvement, and so on. However, over the last 7 years, the GOP under Bush basically gutted these programs. Local law enforcement and agencies have thus been unable to ccontinue these programs--which were highly successful.

I believe that there are some other factors as wel--but I think the fact that even the police are finding their jobs are harder because of Bush pretty much makes the point, don't you?