[syndicate] Re: guilt is fashionable. number of devotees is rising: 872 now, estimated 984 next month

[Michael Watson]

I am too stunned by my calculations of the situation in Oakland. I
had to do them three times to make sure. Clearly, I and the rest of
the citizens of California should do something to help the children
of Oakland...but what?

Michael Watson


--- Michael Watson <michaelw at eleanorrigby.net> wrote:
> Crime in Oakland (2001):
> http://www.city-data.com/city/Oakland-California.html
> Oakland's most recent famous son: Tupac Shakur
> 
> Iraq - 24,000,000  [http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook]
> 
> Oakland - 400,000 persons
> 
> If Oakland had the population of Iraq:
> 
> 5,000 murders
> 17,000 rapes
> 127,000 robberies 
> 170,000 assaults
> 222,000 burglaries 
> 785,000 larceny counts
> 331,000 auto thefts 
> 
> stats from http://www.city-data.com/city/Oakland-California.html
> 
> 84 murders (21.0 per 100,000) 
> 295 rapes (73.8 per 100,000) 
> 2,125 robberies (531.9 per 100,000) 
> 2,826 assaults (707.4 per 100,000) 
> 3,696 burglaries (925.2 per 100,000) 
> 13,081 larceny counts (3274.5 per 100,000) 
> 5,520 auto thefts (1381.8 per 100,000) 
> 
> City-data.com crime index = 657.9 (higher means more crime, US
> average = 312.3) 
> 
>
http://beta.kpix.com/news/local/2002/08/26/Special_Report:_East_Oakland_Under_Siege.html
> Last year at this time, 55 people were murdered. So far this
> year,
> 73 people have been killed. Many of the victims -- 41% -- have
> been
> young black men, between the ages of 16 and 30. As Carson watches
> the death toll climb, she says police hold the key to stopping
> the
> carnage.
> 
> "Bring somebody to justice. There are too many people gone and
> there are no answers," Carson said. "If you don't solve it, it
> makes it easier for a gunman to kill someone because they know
> they
> won't get caught. And they don't."
> 
> So far this year, police have a suspect in just 26% of the
> homicides. One look inside the department, and you see the
> problem:
> a backlog of unsolved cases, some dating back to the 1970s.
> Oakland
> has just ten homicide investigators -- half of what it needs --
> and
> the murders just keep coming.
> 
> claudia westermann <media at ezaic.de> wrote:
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/international/middleeast/16IRAQ.html?th
> 
> At Baghdad Central Morgue
> 
> Dr. Faiq Amin Bakr, director of the Baghdad Central Morgue for
> the 
> past 13 years, reels off the grim statistics that confirm to
> Iraqis
> 
> that they have entered what they see as a terrifyingly lawless 
> twilight zone: 462 people dead under suspicious circumstances or
> in
> 
> automobile accidents in May, some 70 percent from gunshot wounds;
> 626 
> in June; 751 in July; 872 in August. By comparison, last year
> there
> 
> were 237 deaths in July, one of the highest months, with just 21
> from 
> gunfire.
> 
> --
> 
> //
> 
> dear New York Times,
> you disregard the fact that those being shot now are more guilty
> than 
> those who were shot last year.
> 
> //
> 
> 
> claudia - training for leadership
> 
> > 
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