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The Crime Spike Is No Mystery

November 23, 2022 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In The Atlantic, Patrick Sharkey writes about the causes of crime; “By zooming out and looking at the big picture, the question of what causes violence becomes quite answerable.” November 23, 2022 Patrick Sharkey is the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. He … [Read more…]

Posted in: Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Finanace, History, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Chicago, crime, geography of violence, Patrick Sharkey, Segregation, The Atlantic, Urban Crime, violence

Public Abuse

October 23, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the 1918 flu epidemic, one symptom of surviving the flu was severe depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts and actions, often termed ‘delirium’ in the papers of the day. Until it proves to be a futile battle, I want to start to track newspaper articles on the abuse endured by workers from the public. I’m … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Pandemic, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: abuse, aggression, assaults, behaviour, bullying, dehumanise, hostility, lash out, spat at, threatened, threats, verbal abuse, vexatious, violence

Dreaming? Last night

February 21, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Dreaming? Last night, I thought of Timothy McVeigh, I saw images of the April 19, 1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after the bombing, and I thought of Trump’s brag that “he’d not leave the political field.” Putting this together at 2 a.m. in a fog of sleep left me thinking of the WPE (Worst … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, bloodshed, FBI, MAGA, Timothy McVeigh, Trump, violence, worst-president-ever, WPE

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