Did Someone Tell McSkilling?
Our very own superintendent has said weather doesn't affect crime. Cleveland Public Safety Director Martin Flask says otherwise:
- You might also see higher crime, says Martin Flask, director of public safety in Cleveland.
Flask says people are out, it's light later in the day and there are more children playing. Even though, in the long term, crime is trending downward in Cleveland, homicides and burglaries are up compared to this time last year.
"We've seen a significant spike that, in our mind, can be caused by nothing else but the weather," Flask says.
Can we get a ruling on this one? Because we'd really hate to see this become the subject of a heated discussion at the next ConStat meeting.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
13 Comments:
So, do we close the beaches now, or wait till it get's hotter?
Imagine if we had warm weather year round?
Vee haf vays oft dealing wit you naysayers!
"...it's light later in the day..."
Holly Crap!
Don't tell me we now have to fight SOLAR related crime!
Geez, and I thought the gangs were a bad for our youth! When will all of these nasty criminal influences end?
And O M G, how will we EVER develop a crime strategy to fight against SUNLIGHT???
WE ARE DOOMED!
Whats the crime rate shootings etc in ALASKA?
It's evident, the police superindendent has no real experience dealing with the public if he actually said the weather doesn't effect crime and abberant behavior. I'll also include the Lunar cycle.
Cops, Firemen, EMT's, Emergency Room staff, for Pete's sake, convience mart & grocery store cashiers all know from experience: warm weather & a Full Moon mean being extra vigilent to stay safe, especially in the Spring.
That the superintendent doesn't know this stone cold fact learned from dealing with the public means he is a fraud, lush or both.
-not a cop
"We've seen a significant spike that, in our mind, can be caused by nothing else but the weather..."
Boy, this is a last-resort excuse.
Fill your 17-member, manless, blended-family home with violent rap videos and nasty, starchy food, turn your larvae out onto the street to be raised by wolves, and see what happens.
The weather. Right.
We could have hurricanes and tornadoes every day of the week in this town and these fucking deranged animals would still be blowing holes in each other. One good thing is the high winds would blow the corpses over into Wisconsin and Indiana.
"...in the long term, crime is trending downward in Cleveland, homicides and burglaries are up compared to this time last year."
I'd say to keep moving the reference point around to obscure the truth, except that the truth is out in the middle of the street at 3 AM, walking backwards as it shouts "LeVon! LeVon!" up at some building...
"The moving finger writes -- and, having written, moves on."
I love statistics.
Uh -- double-lock the door, willya?
Cops, Firemen, EMT's, Emergency Room staff, for Pete's sake, convience mart & grocery store cashiers all know from experience: warm weather & a Full Moon mean being extra vigilent to stay safe, especially in the Spring.
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Warm weather affects crime, but I don't give much credence to the full moon. I worked at a bar and the owner was always hollering about the full moon and my experience was that people got more stupid the week before and the week after the full moon.
I don't give much credence to the full moon. I worked at a bar and the owner was always hollering about the full moon and my experience was that people got more stupid the week before and the week after the full moon.
4/10/2012 06:27:00 PM
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So, you put no credence in the full moon, but the full moon affects behavior the week before and after it?
Perhaps the superintendent should take a basic criminal justice class such as Introduction to Criminal Justice?
II. A History of Crime Statistics
A. Population statistics have been gathered periodically since pre-Roman times
1. Making inferences based on statistical demographics is a more recent
development (in the last 200 years)
2. Thomas Robert Malthus predicted exponential population growth, which would
lead to a shortage of essential resources and increased conflict
B. Adolph Quételet and André Michel Guerry
1. André Michel Guerry (1802–1866), who calculated per capita crime rates in
French provinces in the early 1800s, was one of the first to gather crime
statistics systematically
2. Adolphe Quételet (1796–1864) looked at the degree to which crime rates vary
with climate, gender, and age
a. Quételet developed the thermic law, which suggests that crime varies by
season
b. Violent crimes increase during hot summer months, and property crimes
increase during colder periods of the year
3. This type of work led to the development of the statistical school of
criminology, a perspective that seeks to uncover correlations between crime
rates and other types of demographic data
Here’s the text info:
Instructor’s Resource Manual
Ellen G. Cohn, Ph.D.
Florida International University
CRIMINOLOGY TODAY
An Integrative Introduction
Fifth Edition
Frank Schmalleger, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Columbus, Ohio
Professor J
The weather made the lowlifes commit their crimes. No accountability for your actions.
Sounds like an excuse formed in Hyde Park.
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