US crime rate drops due to game

[Zoe Castillo]

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[shadyh8er]

Just wait till Fox News demands that kids start being violent because video games are incapacitating them... -_-

HA! That would be the next logical step now wouldn't it? I mean with crime on the down-low will else does the news have to report?

Oh wait, celebrities. Damn.

 

[MikeOfThunder]

Given on the website, there are ten reasons as to why the crime rate has dropped, one of which (number 9) claims that video games are the cause:

10 possible reasons put forwards by various people. This isn't exactly much of a news item. Sure, it's nice to hear that, for example, the town of Laredo in Texas has developed clever and more effective ways to catch car thieves, but that doesn't mean the decrease in murders in the entire US over the last 20 years is due to improved methodology.

Well you have fun arguing that with the BBC! Personally, I'm just happy that the games industry has (for once) been given some positive coverage.

 

[Maxtro]

Seriously, abortion was ranked higher than us, that's how seriously they take games.

I think abortion should be much higher on that list.

While I don't have the data to back it up, I believe that kids born to poor single mothers in impoverished areas, are more likely to turn to crime than kids who were born to parents that can actually afford them.

Anybody disagree?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I like how the number one reason that crime is down is listed as being that a black president was elected, so black men are less likely to rob and steal. That is incredibly racist, funny and confusing all at the same time.

 

[teh_Canape]

at first I read "US rape rate drops due to game"

I even had a Bulletstorm joke ready and all

 

[Tsaba]

Seriously, abortion was ranked higher than us, that's how seriously they take games.

I think abortion should be much higher on that list.

While I don't have the data to back it up, I believe that kids born to poor single mothers in impoverished areas, are more likely to turn to crime than kids who were born to parents that can actually afford them.

Anybody disagree?

I disagree, I believe it should be lower, there's no data to back it up, it says so right there on the page. It should be put on there as a "contributing factor," not as one of the top 5, all it's doing is giving a nod to certain political groups.

EDIT: I'm just saying it's politically driven instead of based on science and that is just plain wrong.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Everyone's inside shooting people instead of outside shooting people.

It's true and while weird, actually very good. It's violence, but not real violence. So any nasty needs are being satisfied in a simulated context.

Agreed.

Same reason I think that banning Loli and related stuff would actually be determintal to society as a whole.

And ouch, abortion is higher up? Wow. Though it makes sense, less people, less crime. Abortion is more common in low income famlies right? So are criminals, as tragic as that is.

 

[Iron Mal]

Well this certainly is an interesting development and one that actually makes logical sense too.

Why go onto the streets and stab someone and possably get caught and sent to jail/executed for it when you can just go on a murderous rampage on Grand Theft Auto and get achievements/trophies?

In fact, my parents in the past have explicitly said that they're happier with me staying inside and playing video games than going out on the street and 'getting mixed up in drugs and gangs'.

Even parental logic supports this!