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Originally Posted by sweetpea
Lack of good educational systems and decent job training and/or lack of a decent job market that pays living wages... now THOSE are things that make crime sky rocket... not the color of one's skin in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by rsl12
Is anyone here saying otherwise?
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Maybe I'm getting cynical as I get older but I wonder if there isn't just as high a percentage of criminals among the educated well to do as the unwashed masses. It's just that their crimes of insider trading, pension fund raiding, contract fixing, etc.. go undetected and with their influence, mostly unpunished.
I also imagine that the crimes of the wealthy, polititians, CEOs, etc.. cost us a lot more money than the street crimes of the lower classes.
The high crime rate seems to have something to do with our attitudes/integrity today. As I recall reading about the great depression where so many were very poor and out of work, the crime rate wasn't nearly as high as it is today.
Back to the thread topic, as many others have already said, I think that Bennet's statements were true but an unfortunate choice of an example and choice of words. To the casual listener they seem racist. I think he got caught up in trying to defend his anti-abortion position and tried to come up with a ridiculous example that backfired on him.