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WEARING A TRENCH COAT IS NOT A CRIME! By: Brian Webber on 10/20/2002; 3:15 PM This article was a deul rip-off. It contianed elements from a website essay, and from the magazine im-ur.
Re: WEARING A TRENCH COAT IS NOT A CRIME! By: Mark Morgan on 4/10/2001; 9:49 AM The recent shooting in Santee, California was what preceded the creation of this site. What site is that? :-) Beware the dangers of cut and paste! Brian probably knows: the recent spate of high-profile attacks aside, is the amount of violence in American high schools actually increasing? My suspicion is that it's not.
Re: WEARING A TRENCH COAT IS NOT A CRIME! By: Brian Webber on 4/10/2001; 2:48 PM Well, numerically speaking it's going down, but the severity of the violence is increasing.
Re: WEARING A TRENCH COAT IS NOT A CRIME! By: Mark Morgan on 4/10/2001; 9:30 PM Actually, by "Brian" I meant Brian Carnell, who either knows the actual stats or knows where to find them.
RE: WEARING A TRENCH COAT IS NOT A CRIME! By: Brian Carnell on 4/11/2001; 9:23 AM >Actually, by "Brian" I meant Brian Carnell (http://brian.carnell.com), who >either knows the actual stats or knows where to find them. Ask and ye shall receive. According to the Washington Post yesterday (http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/A800-2001Apr10.html), the odds of a student being killed at a school are 1 in 2 million. Here's the fascinating part which is driving the sort of "trenchcoat=killer" mentality: "Televised newscasts about all killings, not just those involving youth, went up 473 percent between 1990 and 1998, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Justice. During that period, the homicide rate dropped by 32 percent." Which actually isn't all that unexpected since the less often something happens, in many respects, the more sensationalistic it seems (the whole man bites dog mentality). If deaths from car accidents ever reach a 1 in 2 million risk level, I'd imagine then we'd start seeing car wrecks covered on national news.
RE: WEARING A TRENCH COAT IS NOT A CRIME! By: Seth Dillingham on 4/11/2001; 9:36 AM On Wednesday, April 11, 2001 at 10:23 AM, Brian Carnell wrote: >According to the Washington Post yesterday >(http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/A800-2001Apr10.html), the odds of >a student being killed at a school are 1 in 2 million. > >Here's the fascinating part which is driving the sort of >"trenchcoat=killer" mentality: > >"Televised newscasts about all killings, not just those involving youth, >went up 473 percent between 1990 and 1998, according to a study by the U.S. >Department of Justice. During that period, the homicide rate dropped by 32 >percent." > >Which actually isn't all that unexpected since the less often something >happens, in many respects, the more sensationalistic it seems (the whole >man bites dog mentality). If deaths from car accidents ever reach a 1 in 2 >million risk level, I'd imagine then we'd start seeing car wrecks covered >on national news. Wow. The homicide rate dropped by 1/3, and the rate of media coverage almost quintupled? If that's really the relationship, then what would happen if it dropped another 10%? They'd have to start cancelling other programs just to cover murders. Seems there must be more to this than simply the fact that homicides are less common. Perhaps the school shootings and people going "postal" are sensational enough that the media treats them like huge events and they know that they can sell more ads when a bigger audience is glued to the tube or the radio or whatever. Seth
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