Tuesday, February 9, 2010

My thoughts on US crime

I think that a good way to reduce crime in the United States is to put up stronger borders around the United States. With stronger borders there will be less illegal aliens and less convicts and terrorists coming into the United States. But in class we also learned that Media, Genetics, and poverty also play a huge role in the causes of crime.
I think that stricter law enforcement will help reduce crime along with putting up stronger borders around the United States. With more law enforcement, criminals will get harsher consequences. By putting up borders around the United States illegal aliens and criminals will have a more difficult time getting into the United States, if they can get in at all. With media, i think that by making sure that parental advisories on movies and videogames are set, making sure that the people who are watching the mature movie or playing the violent game can handle it.
There are some limitations though. Of course, many criminals will slip through the cracks, and some will not get caught by law enforcement when they do something wrong or illegal. Also, even though putting up borders around the United States is a great idea and a good way to keep unwanted illegal aliens and criminals out of the United States, it will cost a lot of money that we can't afford to spend. There would be a lot of borders to put up, which would take a ton of time and money.

3 comments:

  1. I think that, that is a good way to reduce crime but the only problem is that crime is happening within the borders. It's not so much illegal aliens it's more of the citizens of the US. Making borders only shows people that we are safe if there were borders but that's not true.

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  2. i agree that terrorists are hugely impacting the crime rates, most do not even own a green card and shouldnt be allowed into the u.s. but i belive that the crime rates in poverty stricken areas are contributing the most to the amount of deaths and causes the most amount of crime. i agree that it would take alot of time and money to able to fix societies and overall have a decreased amount of crime and less deaths. sticter law enforcements is also a good idea as well as larger concequences.

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  3. So basically, your saying its just illegal immigrants that are coming over that are causing crime in United States? You seem to have forgotten that crime in America is more often caused by U.S citizens then actually illegal immigrates. You can't just blame certain groups of people for something. Keep that in mind. You could build a wall around America and crime wouldn't change an inch here.

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