05/13/08 05:44 - 61ºF - ID#44327

Suburbanites bring crime into our city

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05/13/08 05:40 - 61ºF - ID#44326

Stealing from the church plate

Suburbanites like to steal money from churches:

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05/05/08 03:22 - 55ºF - ID#44241

The greed of the suburbanites

will be their own downfall:

suburbancrime writes at 05:43:40 05/06/08 - Comment #34757: The point of this blog is just to explore this myth or idea that the suburbs are free from crime where as the city is somehow this teeming cesspool of filth and crime. I run up against people who think like this everyday...I work with them.

The blog came out of a discussion on the cameras going up on Elmwood to prevent "crime". Some of us felt that cameras going up in the city contributes to this idea that the city is always unsafe and has to be closely monitored.

For the reasons above, I don't necessarily care to compare statistics between Tonawanda and Buffalo. Not to mention, crime statistics in the suburbs are horribly, horribly skewed. A lot of suburbs will record a crime as happening in the county to avoid the crime as being part of the statistics for their area.

There do happen to be people who break the law in the city and the suburb. That's the point of of this blog. Opportunity to commit crime is an important component to why crimes occur and with the increasing vacancies in the suburbs, the people in the suburbs with an inclination towards crime, now have the opportunity to commit crime as well.

jon writes at 01:04:15 05/06/08 - Comment #34751: Although I understand your point, crime is committed by individuals who choose to break the law. And there happen to be people in both the suburbs and in the city. So of course crime will exist. And given more opportunity with abandoned homes and such, I would also guess crime will rise a bit.

Anyways, I thought I'd look around for some hard numbers about crime in our areas. Here is a 2006 comparison I found. Not sure how relevant this is to the topic at hand, but I found it interesting.

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suburbancrime writes at 06:11:11 05/05/08 - Comment #34727: I liked this article because I think it speaks succinctly to crime being, in part, a product of a negligent environment that becomes conducive to criminal activity. The broken window theory at work in the suburbs.
I think we'll see more middle ring suburbans experiencing a rise in crime due to foreclosures and vacant properties.
The suburbs will experience what the urban cities experienced when the government turned its back on the cities and subsidized the move to the suburbs.

james writes at 04:35:25 05/05/08 - Comment #34721: I don't know why we have this Eisenhower era view that the suburbs are crime free. Hasn't everyone seen Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet?