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tj444 -> RE: Have people gotten crazier in the last four years? (5/2/2012 12:08:52 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Iamsemisweet
Actually, I did pretty well these last few years.
I, of course, have also heard about people jumping off buildings during the Great Depression. But murdering your children and/or spouse, and then burning the house down around them? Seems like a whole new level of crazy. If it had just happened once, it is an aberration. But there have been three murder/suicide/arsons in this State in the last year, two of them in my county. Many more suicide/arsons.
you might be right.. but according to this article, few stats on murder/suicide are kept so it can be hard to notice an incresase..
"Virginia is one of the few states that keep murder-suicide statistics, as part of its participation in the National Violent Death Reporting System, a project of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to a decade's worth of data collected by the state medical examiner, Virginia averages around 18 a year. In the Tidewater District, an area far larger than just South Hampton Roads, the average is less than three.
But in 2011, South Hampton Roads alone had eight, the most ever recorded.
There is no simple explanation for the spike, particularly since crime overall is down. Some blame the economy; unemployment and foreclosure can tip the already-troubled over the edge. In a recent CDC survey of 9,000 women, one-in-four said they'd been attacked by husbands or boyfriends."
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/01/record-number-murdersuicides-here-last-year
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