Marquette Crime Reports

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Fantastic

8.5 out of 10

He was rolling towards a perfect score until he somehow forgot to wedge litterboxes for furries in there as well.

[tower912]

Big Macs lead to heart disease.

[The Sultan of Semantics]

Big Macs lead to heart disease.

Right. And someone dies from heart disease in this country every 50 seconds or so.

And excuse me for not taking someone seriously who spent a couple years here discounting the impact of Covid.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Big Macs lead to heart disease.

Because of drag queens, probably.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Fantastic

8.5 out of 10

1 minute, 52 seconds.

[The Sultan of Semantics]

1 minute, 52 seconds.

He’s doing God’s work.

[tower912]

1 minute, 52 seconds.

A shame it took so long.

[cheebs09]

A shame it took so long.

An eternity for some of us.

[JWags85]

Well, you hung out with the wrong crowd. The kids I know are largely successful and some of the best snd brightest you'll run across anywhere.
Btw, reread my response to Ma. Your logic and reading comprehension drew the wrong conclusion, hey?

1) it was a joke that bad things happen in many places.

2) F off with that nonsense.  That wasn’t even a dig on my hometown.  Oh and of those 4?  An honors student less than 12 months out of UW; a D1 golfer at a WCC school who got addicted to pain meds after shoulder surgery; a consultant with a degree from one of the very good private schools, and a soon to be college junior at IU. 

So yea, real terrible group of dregs and burnouts.  And that stabbing was a 50 year old guy at a house party

[🏀]

How would you like to see it addressed?

Have you seen this place called Wakanda?

[rocket surgeon]

1 minute, 52 seconds.

exactly, and he has nothing intelligent to say regarding the issue so he tries to be class clown about it.  no surprise.  i fail to understand how drug overdoses can become such a controversial topic.  one would think you could get a consensus it's all bad, but nope.  reeko thinks it's all fun and games.  i just hope you never have to bury someone close to you due to any form of drug addiction or accidental overdose and i honestly mean that.  then it might not be so funny

[rocket surgeon]

He’s doing God’s work.

i thought that was your job

[rocket surgeon]

How would you like to see it addressed?

figure it out jes

[ZiggysFryBoy]

i thought that was your job

Trick question:  sultan is God.

[Goose]

Ziggy
 

Even better is the usual suspects trying to be clever on following up on Rico’s rating posts. Some if these guys try hard to be clever, but sadly miss the mark by a very wide margin.

[Uncle Rico]

1) it was a joke that bad things happen in many places.

2) F off with that nonsense.  That wasn’t even a dig on my hometown.  Oh and of those 4?  An honors student less than 12 months out of UW; a D1 golfer at a WCC school who got addicted to pain meds after shoulder surgery; a consultant with a degree from one of the very good private schools, and a soon to be college junior at IU. 

So yea, real terrible group of dregs and burnouts.  And that stabbing was a 50 year old guy at a house party

If we closed the border, there’d be no drugs in Mequon but Marquette would still have no endowment.

[MU82]

From the NYT's "The Morning" newsletter:

At the start of this year, America’s crime trends looked grim: Murders had spiked at a record speed in 2020 and increased further in 2021.

But now that the year is ending, it’s clear that the violence has eased.

Murders in large U.S. cities are down more than 5 percent so far in 2022 compared to the same time last year, according to the research firm AH Datalytics. Gun deaths, injuries and mass shootings are also down this year.

What happened? To regular readers of this newsletter, the explanations may be familiar: The causes of the murder spike have receded.

Covid disrupted much of life in 2020 and 2021, including social services that help keep people safe. That applies not just to policing, but also to places like schools and addiction treatment facilities that can help people — especially young men, the more common perpetrators and victims of violent crime — stay out of trouble. As life slowly returns to normal, these programs have reopened and helped suppress murders and shootings. ...

The drop in murders is genuinely good news — the kind that often goes unreported. Think about how many headlines you have seen about the rise in murders compared to stories about the subsequent decline.

That gap demonstrates another point that regular readers of this newsletter will be familiar with: The news media tends to have a bad news bias. Some of that is driven by journalists’ decisions, hence the old cliché that if it bleeds, it leads. Studies also suggest that negativity gets a bigger audience, so journalists are, to some extent, giving readers what they want.

That bias warps people’s perceptions of the world. As rates of murders and other crimes plummeted from the 1990s to mid-2010s, news outlets regularly covered shocking individual crimes, and a majority of Americans told Gallup that crime was trending upward. (Most Americans still say crime is up.)

There are still reasons for caution. Data from this year suggested other kinds of crime, besides murders and shootings, might have increased in 2022. Murders are still higher than they were in 2019. And it’s possible the trends reported in large cities don’t apply to the entire country (although they have in recent years).

But the data we do have suggests the country’s murder and shooting rates are heading in the right direction. As the year comes to a close, it’s good news you can celebrate. ...

Also, Congress’s latest spending bill increased funding for local police.

[Uncle Rico]

From the NYT's "The Morning" newsletter:

At the start of this year, America’s crime trends looked grim: Murders had spiked at a record speed in 2020 and increased further in 2021.

But now that the year is ending, it’s clear that the violence has eased.

Murders in large U.S. cities are down more than 5 percent so far in 2022 compared to the same time last year, according to the research firm AH Datalytics. Gun deaths, injuries and mass shootings are also down this year.

What happened? To regular readers of this newsletter, the explanations may be familiar: The causes of the murder spike have receded.

Covid disrupted much of life in 2020 and 2021, including social services that help keep people safe. That applies not just to policing, but also to places like schools and addiction treatment facilities that can help people — especially young men, the more common perpetrators and victims of violent crime — stay out of trouble. As life slowly returns to normal, these programs have reopened and helped suppress murders and shootings. ...

The drop in murders is genuinely good news — the kind that often goes unreported. Think about how many headlines you have seen about the rise in murders compared to stories about the subsequent decline.

That gap demonstrates another point that regular readers of this newsletter will be familiar with: The news media tends to have a bad news bias. Some of that is driven by journalists’ decisions, hence the old cliché that if it bleeds, it leads. Studies also suggest that negativity gets a bigger audience, so journalists are, to some extent, giving readers what they want.

That bias warps people’s perceptions of the world. As rates of murders and other crimes plummeted from the 1990s to mid-2010s, news outlets regularly covered shocking individual crimes, and a majority of Americans told Gallup that crime was trending upward. (Most Americans still say crime is up.)

There are still reasons for caution. Data from this year suggested other kinds of crime, besides murders and shootings, might have increased in 2022. Murders are still higher than they were in 2019. And it’s possible the trends reported in large cities don’t apply to the entire country (although they have in recent years).

But the data we do have suggests the country’s murder and shooting rates are heading in the right direction. As the year comes to a close, it’s good news you can celebrate. ...

Also, Congress’s latest spending bill increased funding for local police.

That’ll help Marquette’s endowment

[Hards Alumni]

figure it out jes

No, no solution other than 'build the wall'? 

Where do you think the fentanyl comes from?

Currently, China remains the primary source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked through
international mail and express consignment operations environment, as well as the main source for all
fentanyl-related substances trafficked into the United States. Seizures of fentanyl sourced from China
average less than one kilogram in weight, and often test above 90 percent concentration of pure fentanyl.

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf

Enjoy bathing in the Sinophobia!

[The Sultan of Semantics]

Trick question:  sultan is God.

Even better is the usual suspects trying to be clever on following up on Rico’s rating posts. Some if these guys try hard to be clever, but sadly miss the mark by a very wide margin.

Here comes the cavalry!!!

[Uncle Rico]

No, no solution other than 'build the wall'? 

Where do you think the fentanyl comes from?

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf

Enjoy bathing in the Sinophobia!

My family has buried a number of alcoholics.  Maybe we should build a wall around both coasts and use Jewish space lasers to shoot down planes from Scotland, Ireland, Germany and other alcohol producing countries.

This latest scoop kerfuffle began with a non-sequitur from our resident Tuckerologist.  It ain’t the border causing drug problems in this country but the simpleminded always need a boogeyman.

[tower912]

Brother Goose

You realize, of course, that you are humorlessly rushing to the defense of a member of your tribe.   I would like to think this was an attempt at irony, but that is probably my unwavering optimism talking.

[Hards Alumni]

Brother Goose

You realize, of course, that you are humorlessly rushing to the defense of a member of your tribe.   I would like to think this was an attempt at irony.

History shows that it isn't.

[Goose]

tower

There was no attempt to add humor in my post. A simple observation that many on here miss the mark in their attempts at being clever.

[JWags85]

No, no solution other than 'build the wall'? 

Where do you think the fentanyl comes from?

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf

Enjoy bathing in the Sinophobia!

Fun fact, the Great Wall in China was actually subsidized by the West looking forward hundreds of years to prevent illegal drugs from leaving China