I thought the NCAA was essentially dead and toothless

[BeardoMSU]

Typical shit, this thread has devolved into, lol.

[Coach34]

Is this ban hammer bait?

Why? I asked a simple question

[BeardoMSU]

Why? I asked a simple question

[DEDawg]

do you pack heat or are you really that relaxed?

lived here for over 10 years, never once thought I needed a gun or felt unsafe. still live downtown. ppl just either are from the suburbs so they only hear the local news, or out of towners who just go to the airport (which is a bad area) or the liberty bowl which is run down. it's a lazy take

[Pancho]

good luck to you. I know several postal workers there as well as real estate and pest control people. They are uncomfortable daily and are armed due to this criminal element. We used to go to red bird games but the many cars with broken windows has deterred us, same thing with the mall areas as well. My cousin has recently moved from the mud island area due to prowlers after dark. He was attacked in a restaurant parking lot by 3 fine citizens and survived. Then my great aunt who while unloading groceries had a 9 held to her head as her van was stolen by 2 more fine folks there. Both these are in the last 3 years but the mayor say that crime be down and all. be safe brother is all i can say to you and stay lucky

[Tater]

Sooooo- who is committing the majority of these crimes in Memphis?

Poor people. Like hack alluded to - when people can't survive off of "legal" means - minimum wage doesn't provide minimum rent/necessities, programs cut for social funding - then three things happen: People move elsewhere, birth rate slows, people turn to "illegal" means to survive.

Take a sociology course. State offers a great intro course - SO 1003. Honestly you should just go shadow any classes in Bowen.

[viverlibre]

My cousin has recently moved from the mud island area due to prowlers after dark. He was attacked in a restaurant parking lot by 3 fine citizens and survived. Then my great aunt who while unloading groceries had a 9 held to her head as her van was stolen by 2 more fine folks there. Both these are in the last 3 years but the mayor say that crime be down and all. be safe brother is all i can say to you and stay lucky

No offense, but if one is going to work/live/shop/recreate in proximity to high crime areas (like Mem, Jxn, B'ham. NOLA, BR), he/she must have an acute sense of situational awareness and plan. I've worked in DT Jxn for 30 years, between my building and my parking space is a hundred yards in an area frequented by bums, I carefully survey the scene before making that walk.

[Pancho]

good and good thing no thug just appeared from behind a building as they did in both instances that I mentioned. Some poor folk have no idea and no intention of improving their plight and just resort to a normal life of crime and get locked up or shot.

[Political Hack]

Result in? Have you not been paying attention? It's been happening for decades and ramped up since the plandemic.

Not a big social science guy? Crime doesn't stay static. It either goes up or goes down. Like the climate. You know? Just always changing. I know some don't believe in that, but it's just basic common sense. And the policies we put in place help deter or encourage crime. Right now, we're in an "encourage crime" window and we'll see rises in violence and theft.

[mparkerfd20]

Sooooo- who is committing the majority of these crimes in Memphis?

The Usual Suspects.

[somebodyshotmypaw]

Sooooo- who is committing the majority of these crimes in Memphis?

The folks committing the crimes are held down by the system. Otherwise they would be future surgeons, astronauts, scientists, or engineers. Every time some 16 year old gangbanger with his pants below his asscrack, his gun turned sideways, and his pockets full of drugs shoots somebody, I realize there will be another empty seat in medical school.

[Tater]

The folks committing the crimes are held down by the system. Otherwise they would be future surgeons, astronauts, scientists, or engineers. Every time some 16 year old gangbanger with his pants below his asscrack, his gun turned sideways, and his pockets full of drugs shoots somebody, I realize there will be another empty seat in medical school.

Imagine if we set up a better plumber trade school pipeline.

Also while this is elite dawgs, you don't have to whistle so loud.

[Pancho]

plumbing ain't easy

[Tripp McNeely]

plumbing ain't easy

Neither is pimpin'!

[Pancho]

is they a pimpin school?

[TheLostDawg]

lived here for over 10 years, never once thought I needed a gun or felt unsafe. still live downtown. ppl just either are from the suburbs so they only hear the local news, or out of towners who just go to the airport (which is a bad area) or the liberty bowl which is run down. it's a lazy take

I was literally in a liquor store there 10 years ago and the owner pulled a gun on someone. I imagine things haven't improved. This was downtown.

[TheLostDawg]

Poor people. Like hack alluded to - when people can't survive off of "legal" means - minimum wage doesn't provide minimum rent/necessities, programs cut for social funding - then three things happen: People move elsewhere, birth rate slows, people turn to "illegal" means to survive.

Take a sociology course. State offers a great intro course - SO 1003. Honestly you should just go shadow any classes in Bowen.

Yeah but those books avs teachers all lean one way. Is there something to what they teach, yes. It's also half the story as always. When crimes have no punishment, there is nothing to persuade these people not to take the easy way out instead of doing it the hard way and get a job to pay your way out. Is it tough, absolutely but there are a lot of good people that do it.

[Coach34]

Every big city with problems has all the same characteristics:

Years of Democrat leadership
Very high taxes
High prices
Lots of crime (and its gotten so bad for some they have even stopped reporting crime stats)
Education is terrible

You get what you vote for- I dont need a sociology book for that

[Political Hack]

Yeah but those books avs teachers all lean one way. Is there something to what they teach, yes. It's also half the story as always. When crimes have no punishment, there is nothing to persuade these people not to take the easy way out instead of doing it the hard way and get a job to pay your way out. Is it tough, absolutely but there are a lot of good people that do it.

Agree with this except the "books all lean one way." That's a lie your political leaders tell you to divide you from education and make you dumber. "Don't trust the smart people" isn't really a good method to progress humanity. The new fear mongering of education and healthcare is insane to me. If you withdraw those social support systems from families, crime, poverty, hunger, dispare, desperation, etc... will all rise. Lots of grey area there. And there is no perfect system. Personally I don't mind paying a little more in taxes if it lowers the local crime rate and makes my family safer. I don't think paying 100% tax is right. And I don't think paying 0% tax is right. It's somewhere in between. And I think most logical people would agree with that.

One Memphisian I know, that grew up with his mom working multiple jobs, after his dad was murdered, while he chased a dream, made it out. Called me the other day looking for real estate investment opportunities. By the numbers, he shouldn't have made it but he was driven and he didn't let the environment weigh him down. So individuals can overcome that environment, but that doesn't mean that society will not suffer the overall impacts of removing society's most critical social support systems.

[DEDawg]

I was literally in a liquor store there 10 years ago and the owner pulled a gun on someone. I imagine things haven't improved. This was downtown.

Always weird to me how the people who dont live or come here all have a story about them or a family member yet those of us who do live here dont