Omicidi
Claudio Giusti
April 28, 2008 8:15 PM
La città di Baltimora ha 600.000 abitanti e 300 omicidi all'anno.
A New Orelans, con 300.000 abitanti, ne hanno 200.
In Italia (60 milioni) facciamo dell'isteria per 593 omicidi nel 2007
Claudio Giusti
giusticlaudio@aliceposta.it
Franco Isman
April 29, 2008 11:22 AM
I dati riportati sono talmente spaventosi da farmi dubitare della loro esattezza: si possono citare delle fonti ?
Grazie
Fr.I.
Salvatore Iannazzo
April 29, 2008 12:39 PM
Quali che siano i dati giusti, a me sembra che noi sfuggiamo al problema. Che non è - soltanto - se la percentuale dei crimini in Italia sia maggiore o minore che negli USA; ma è se i colpevoli, una volta assicurati alla giustizia, espiino la loro pena sino in fondo o vengano liberati dopo mesi o addirittura giorni. Qui certamente noi abbiamo dei grossi problemi da risolvere, che gli USA non hanno.
Toti Iannazzo
Francesco Achille iss
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:35 PM
Sono d'accordo.
Il problema è questo: la non certezza della pena. Pochi all'anno, ma sono tutti in giro: ladri, stupratori, truffatori, investitori (di persone), falliti, bancarottieri, ecc. E sto parlando anche di quelli di "alto livello"... Ce ne sono un'ottantina anche in Parlamento, che certamente non faranno leggi... a loro sfavore. Questo è il popolo italiano, cari amici...
Ora il punto è: andiamo a vivere in Svizzera o moriamo in Italia?
Francesco Achille
Franco Isman
April 29, 2008 5:08 PM
Ricevo da Claudio Giusti l'articolo di Usa Today con i dati relativi agli omicidi in Baltimora ed in altre città degli Stati Uniti, lo ringrazio e li ritrasmetto.
Fr.I.
Baltimore records most homicides since 1999
Usa Today January 28 2008
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore ended the year with the city's highest murder rate in eight years, despite a new police commissioner's modest success in slowing the spike in homicides.
The city recorded 282 homicides in 2007, a slight increase over the previous year and the highest total since 1999, when 305 people were slain.
Things in Baltimore looked much worse on July 19, the day Police Commissioner Leonard D. Hamm resigned. At that point, Baltimore had recorded 178 homicides, putting it on pace for a total of 325, which would have been the most since 1996.
But under Hamm's successor, Frederick H. Bealefeld III, 104 people were slain over the final 165 days of the year. If sustained for an entire year, that pace would give the city 230 homicides.
Baltimore's per capita murder rate trailed New Orleans' and Detroit's in 2006, and New Orleans got even bloodier in 2007, with 209 murders in a city of 295,450.
New York's and Chicago's 2007 homicide totals were the lowest in more than 40 years, and in Philadelphia, slayings dipped slightly after reaching a nine-year high in 2006. But murders increased in several other big cities, including Atlanta, Miami and Dallas.
Criminologists blame a decrease in funding for neighborhood policing because of the war on terrorism; a demographic bubble of teenagers and young adults; and the scaling back since the late 1990s of after-school and anti-gang programs, such as midnight basketball, summer jobs programs, counseling, and high school equivalency diploma courses.
While Baltimore experienced a slowdown in violent crime after a particularly bloody first half of the year, the final homicide count was similar to that of the previous five years. Over that period, homicides haven't dipped lower than 269 or risen higher than 282.
Twenty-seven of the city's homicide victims were under the age of 18, according to police.
The year's final victim was Todd Dargan, 25, who was shot several times as he stood outside a supermarket on the afternoon of Dec. 28 in a violent section of east Baltimore. Police have no suspects in his slaying.
Fueled by a booming illegal drug trade, increasing gang activity and easy access to guns, citywide homicides topped 300 every year in the 1990s, and 2002's total of 253 stands as the city's lowest since 1988.
With a population of 631,366, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics, Baltimore remains among the nation's worst cities for murders per capita, with about 44 slayings per 100,000 residents.
Mayor Sheila Dixon interviewed eight other candidates to be police commissioner, including former District of Columbia Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey.
The mayor said she made Bealefeld acting commissioner in part because he had served 26 years with the department. He was permanently appointed Oct. 4.
Bealefeld and Dixon have focused on repeat violent offenders, frequently sending them to the federal court system, where they face mandatory minimum sentences. They've also revived a police unit that traces illegal guns.
Daniel Webster, co-director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said the new strategies made sense.
"I expect them to bear more fruit as time goes on," Webster wrote in an e-mail, adding that the mayor and police commissioner "have become more focused (appropriately) on getting illegal guns off the street and violent gun offenders off the street."
Historic low in NYC, Chicago homicides
NEW YORK (AP) — Chicago and New York are about to close out 2007 with the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years, while cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami have seen killings go up because of what police say is a surge in guns and gang violence.
New York City reported 488 slayings as of Friday, versus 596 for all of 2006. The city is on track to have the lowest number of killings since reliable record-keeping started in 1963.
Homicides in New York reached an all-time high of 2,245 in 1990, making the city the nation's murder capital. Since then, the numbers have plummeted, and experts attribute the decline in part to computerized tracking of crime trends and the practice of strategically flooding high-crime areas with police officers instead of spreading them evenly through the precincts.
Chicago is on track to have the lowest homicide toll since 1965, when police reported 395 killings. The city had logged 435 slayings through Dec. 26. In the early part of the decade, police often reported more than 600 a year.
Chicago officials credit the improvement to their tough stance on gangs, guns and drugs.
"Those three ingredients, so to speak, are what we're focused on," said police spokeswoman Monique Bond. "That's really what leads to random violence."
Those factors were blamed for increases in murders in other cities.
Atlanta had 126 homicides as of Dec. 26, compared with 111 for the same period a year ago. Police attributed some of the increase to a New Orleans-based gang that moved into town after Hurricane Katrina. Members of the International Robbing Crew are accused of killing at least seven people in Atlanta.
In Miami, authorities say the proliferation of assault weapons led to an increase in killings, from 56 in 2005 to 79 in 2006 and 86 so far in 2007.
"You just pull a trigger and 20 or 30 rounds come in a second and in those 20 rounds you're sure to hit your intended target and some innocent bystanders, totally unlike a firearm that is just one bullet every time you pull the trigger," Miami Police spokesman Willie Moreno said.
Earlier this year, Baltimore was headed for its bloodiest year in nearly a decade. But the bloodletting eased up after a new police commissioner took office.
The bloodshed in Baltimore is blamed on entrenched poverty, widespread drug addiction, failing schools and easy access to guns.
Through Dec. 26, there were 280 homicides in Baltimore — four more than in all of 2006. Things looked even grimmer in mid-July, the day Police Commissioner Leonard D. Hamm resigned. At that point, Baltimore had 178 homicides, putting it on pace for a total of 325. The city has not topped 300 since 1999.
The new police commissioner, Frederick H. Bealefeld III, and Mayor Sheila Dixon have gone after repeat violent offenders more aggressively, flooded high-crime zones with officers, and revived a unit that traces illegal guns. Also, repeat gun offenders are being sent more frequently to the federal court system, where they face stiffer sentences.
"They have become more focused, appropriately, on getting illegal guns off the streets and violent gun offenders off the street," said Daniel Webster, co-director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research at Johns Hopkins University.
It has been a particularly bloody year for children in Baltimore: Twenty-seven of this year's homicide victims were under 18.
In Philadelphia, killings dipped this year after reaching a nine-year high of 406 in 2006. Through midnight Tuesday, the city had 390 slayings, or 11 fewer than at the same point a year ago.
Like Baltimore, Philadelphia is dealing with a rash of illegal handguns that officials believe are being used to resolve minor disputes.
In other big cities, Phoenix reported 207 killings at the end of November, just shy of last year's total of 214 for the same period; Boston had 66 slayings as of Dec. 28, compared with 71 by the same point in 2006; Dallas was on track to finish considerably higher, with 200 homicides as of Dec. 26, versus 175 last year.
Francesco Achille
Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:23 AM
Le statistiche ci dicono che siamo nella media dei paesi occidentali, anzi, sotto la media.
Il problema è che da noi i delinquenti del 2008 si sommano a quelli del 2007 che si sommavano a quelli del 2006 e via discorrendo. E SONO TUTTI A PIEDE LIBERO E SONO UNA CATERVA DI PERSONE: stupratori, rapinatori, ladri, truffatori, falliti, bancarottieri, faccendieri, vecchi piduisti e nuovi, falsificatori di bilanci e di dichiarazioni dei redditi, revisori corrotti, magistrati superficiali, e fermiamoci qua. Sono milioni e milioni di persone, non quattro gatti.
Ecco dove nasce la nostra emergenza. IN GALERA NON VA E NON RESTA NESSUNO. e
non parlo dell'indulto (ma anche, ed è stata una bella porcata).
Mi riferisco al fatto che a furia di fare leggi permissive e pro-domo-sua, con i tempi della giustizia che ci ritroviamo, in galera non ci va più nessuno, nè piccoli delinquenti nè grandi.
MA NON VI SIETE MAI CHIESTI PERCHE' ALLA GIUSTIZIA NON VA MAI UN MAGISTRATO - NEPPURE PER SBAGLIO?
Rimango della mia idea: è meglio andare a vivere in Svizzera.
Francesco Achille