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| Are Criminals More Violent? |
| By Tracy E. Barnhart |
| Published: 02/22/2010 |
“Juvenile Detention Officer Leonard Wall succumbed to injuries sustained when he was severely beaten by three juvenile inmates at the Jack Jones Juvenile Justice Center. Officer Wall was conducting bed checks when the three inmates attacked him and took his keys. When another officer came to check on Officer Wall, the inmates attacked him too, inflicting non-life threatening injuries.” January 30th, 2010 It would be difficult to imagine a subject today that occupies the minds of Americans more than the subject of crime does! A recent national crime clock tells us we have…A violent crime every 22 seconds…A property crime every 3 seconds…A rape every 5 seconds…An automobile stolen every 19 seconds and…A child abuse case reported every 10 seconds. The threat of Crime hovers over every community in our nation like an ominous dark cloud. Rapists, murderers, drug dealers, sex predators and violent perverts are turned out on the street by a judicial system that is supposed to be the watchdog of our freedoms. America now leads the world in the number of incarcerated-with Russia coming in second. “What started out as a traffic stop by two Oakland Police motorcycle officers Saturday afternoon turned into a bloody massacre that would leave four officers and the suspect dead in a shocking incident that has shaken the Bay Area.” The purpose of this article is to bring about more awareness about the increasing number of law enforcement and correctional officers killed in the line of duty. I get almost daily E-Mail notifications about law enforcement officers killed while on duty. This does not include the number of correctional officers killed, as that stastic is not well maintained or compiled. Now include the increasing number of officers assaulted or disabled and it makes me wonder, “Are criminals more violent and aggressive?” I think you have to answer that question with a one-word answer, “YES!” “Francis was shot and killed in the line of duty on July 2, 2008, in a struggle with a woman who grabbed his gun and shot him in the head. A 27-year veteran Chicago Police officer was shot and killed early Wednesday morning after a woman grabbed away his service gun in a struggle near the Belmont Area Police Headquarters.” As of the time and date of this article being published there have been police officers killed in the line of duty as of January 1st, 2010. 29 officers killed and it has not been a full two months yet. Now how many officers do you think have been assaulted in that same period? That number is probably astronomical. Criminal just no longer have the natural respect and fear of authority that law enforcement and correctional officers once possessed in the past. I wonder when in our initial academy training on aspects of force when we will eliminate officer presence as a level in the force continuum. When evil individuals do not see you as an authority figure and have the balls to walk up to a table full of police officers in a coffee house and open fire killing just for the reality of killing is terrible. “The four officers were killed at about 8:15 a.m. by a scruffy-looking man who walked into a coffee shop and opened fire. The officers — three men and one woman — were found dead by deputies who arrived at Forza Coffee at 11401 Steele St.” We have to consider the mere fact that we are present at a situation does not mean that we any longer bring a natural reluctance or deterrent to violenced or will offer any sort of respect or compliance on the part of society. You are a trophy to be worn as a badge of honor upon defeat and criminals will accept your challenge almost without hesitation. No more is the stigma of having a son or relative in prison looked upon as bad. Some families have all the males in their bloodline incarcerated inside an institution. Prison time is seen by some genera’s as the military was looked at 40 years ago. It is something you have to do to be respected and admired. Crazy as it sounds, the longer you are incarcerated the more street credibility and respect you will generate. “Police from multiple jurisdictions are hunting for whoever shot and killed a Chattahoochee Hills policeman. Lieutenant Mike Vogt was pronounced dead after a helicopter rushed him to a hospital. Vogt was driving down a dirt road when someone fired a “high-powered weapon” at him.” February 16, 2010 This society today led by the nose-by the mainstream media avoids the word evil like the plague. Evil will always be with us as a criminal reality. Evil has a history going back thousands of years, in biblical times it began with Cain when he killed his brother Abel in cold blood. Criminals have been with us since the beginning of civilization. Call it evil, call it genetic, call it mean, call it behavioral or call it a dozen other names but evil is the actual name. Lawyers redefine evil acts as a sick act by a sick person, generally because of childhood abuse or some other deficiency. Regardless of the art of deception, it is still evil. Let us face it! There is an evil group in society and the group will enlarge with society, they will always be with us and we will always have the need for a prison system to house evil people. We need to include evil in our vocabulary, our anticipation and our planning in society! I actually had a reader comment on my articles advising me not to call them inmates but instead offenders. It seems that the labeling of being called inmates is far too derogatory and it stereotypes them as evil or bad. Well the truth is they are evil and their actions are outside the societal norms placing them into a category that represents evil inside our prisons. I am not a politically correct writer and I call it as I see it. We need to place the status back into our prisons. It should not be a status that is acceptable for people to go to jail. Prison should not be nice and once you get out, it is a place you never want to return. I think we as a society have made prison acceptable and flashy seeming not such a bad place to go. There are many reasons why people become criminals, and psychopathic personality disorder is just one of them. Many non-psychopaths turn to crime because:
Our correctional system reproduces all of the ingredients known to promote violence isolation, discomfort, pain, exposure to other violent individuals and general insecurity. In our prisons we have created, a laboratory that predictable reproduces and reinforces aggression. Perhaps with a hit of ingenuity we could do the opposite. So in essence, our prisons are a sort of higher learning educational institutions that do nothing to reform individuals but instead make criminals better educated and better understanding of the loopholes in our legal system. All too often, the subject of criminal and dangerous behavior, especially the aftermath, is muddled up with ideology, rhetoric and even politics. Often the actions of the criminal and violent person are explained away because of injustice, oppression or societal failure. However, by looking at crime and violence from the perspective of extreme selfishness and lack of concern for others, you begin to see more of the ‘charging lion’ nature of the subject. In addition, make no mistake, that criminal coming at you is like a charging lion … intent on eating you alive.
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