DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect 184
HughPickens.com writes: In a case straight out of CSI, CNN reports that police are searching for the man suspected in the gruesome slayings of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper, after his DNA was purportedly found on a pizza crust at the scene of the quadruple murders. They discovered his DNA on the crust of a Domino's pizza — one of two delivered to the Savopoulos home May 14 as the family was held hostage inside — a source familiar with the investigation said. The pizza apparently was paid for with cash left in an envelope on the porch. The next morning, Savvas Savopoulos's personal assistant dropped off a package containing $40,000 in cash at the home, according to the officials and police documents.
The bodies of Savopoulos, along with his wife, Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip and the family's housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, were discovered the afternoon of May 14 after firefighters responded to reports of a fire. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says the killings are likely not a random crime and police have issued an arrest warrant for the 34-year-old Daron Dylon Wint, who is described as 5'7 and 155 lbs and might also go by the name "Steffon." Wint apparently used to work at American Iron Works, where Savvas Savopoulos was CEO and president. The neighborhood is home to numerous embassies and diplomatic mansions as well as the official residence of Vice President Joe Biden and his wife. "Right now you have just about every law enforcement officer across the country aware of his open warrant and are looking for him," says Lanier. "I think even his family has made pleas for him to turn himself in."
The bodies of Savopoulos, along with his wife, Amy, their 10-year-old son Philip and the family's housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, were discovered the afternoon of May 14 after firefighters responded to reports of a fire. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says the killings are likely not a random crime and police have issued an arrest warrant for the 34-year-old Daron Dylon Wint, who is described as 5'7 and 155 lbs and might also go by the name "Steffon." Wint apparently used to work at American Iron Works, where Savvas Savopoulos was CEO and president. The neighborhood is home to numerous embassies and diplomatic mansions as well as the official residence of Vice President Joe Biden and his wife. "Right now you have just about every law enforcement officer across the country aware of his open warrant and are looking for him," says Lanier. "I think even his family has made pleas for him to turn himself in."
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They should have finished the crust. People who don't eat the crust go to jail.
According to several news sources, he has been arrested, so, yes, he will be going to jail. Especially if the DNA matches.
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If you click on the first link in the story it says that the suspect has been arrested.
However at the time the story was submitted (May 20, 7:20 pm CST) the suspect had not yet been apprehended. Same link, different story.
This is something I have seen news operations do before that I really don't agree with. They keep the same URL but they change the content of the story.
If a news organization changes the content of the story I think they should put an "UPDATE" at the end of the original story to reflect th
upper crust (Score:2)
apparently it was an area of DC where you always find the upper crust
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Most chain pizza has a disgusting crust, though Dominoes seems to be even worse (too sweet, mushy and doughy like it's undercooked) than most.
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Then I suggest finding a real Italian restaurant with a real wood-fired oven, making thin crust pizza at high heat, and with good quality toppings.
Things like Dominos and Pizza Hut? Well, they're pretty much the most nasty form of disgusting greasy pizza known to man.
If you're using those as your benchmark for pizza, you're doing it wrong. Just like if you're using McDonald's as a benchmark for what a good burger should be.
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If you're using those as your benchmark for pizza, you're doing it wrong. Just like if you're using McDonald's as a benchmark for what a good burger should be.
Might be the only place that delivered in their area. Even in the middle of a large city, I have found myself in that situation.
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Believe it or not some of us like the fatty cheesy goodness on Pizza Hut pizzas, and as for meat feast, ohh baby.
I can take or leave "authentic" Italian wafer-thin crispy bases with virtually no cheese and often uncooked ingredients. Overrated.
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Oh, trust me, I've been to a Wal Mart in the US, I know it's real.
Just don't expect anybody to take your opinion seriously about what is tasty food when you eat like a 7 year old.
Pizza Hut is grease, piled on top of oil, to the point that the bottom of the crust is fried (and this is by design). And that's quit disgusting.
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Pizza always have oil from the cheese or the Pepperoni. If you bit into the toppings, you will leave your signature, I mean lip-prints and teeth profile
Lots of filtering I suspect (Score:4)
"We found DNA from 12 different people, a cow, three different pigs, a chicken, genetically modified pineapple, tomato and yeast. Only one of these lived in the house."
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Statistically, that "cow" (ground beef) would be from ~200 cows. Sausage could be as few as one, but much more likely to be just as "processed" as the cow. Ham or Canadian Bacon might be from a single animal, but I seriously doubt Dominion's uses anything from the "quality" side of the market. The chicken is the only thing likely to have been from a single chicken -- unless they used "McNuggets", which is entirely possible. ("mechanically separated" is the term used.)
(There are some "how it's made" shows th
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Not only that, the dough likely came from multiple different stalks of wheat, and the sauce was derived from a number of tomato vines. I'm not sure how any of this is relevant to the quality of the pizza, though.
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I always wonder when I get a bucket of wings, how many different chickens am I eating. If I've got 10 drums and 10 wings, maybe I'm only eating 5 chickens. But maybe I'm eating 20. It's like chicken genocide. I'm like Hitler to their people. I don't feel bad, though. I know, I know, it's victim blaming, but I blame the chickens for being so damn delicious.
(Oh and good work to the DC police department. Catch the son of a bitch.)
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Probably shared a Nickelback album on KaZaa back in '03.
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DNA On Pizza Crust Leads To Quadruple Murder Suspect
Police are searching for a tomato.
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this should have been ... (Score:2)
Parallel Construction (Score:3)
Now, when I read stuff like this.. a little bird whispers in my ear: parallel construction.
What's more likely, Wint's DNA was recovered from a pizza crust in a burning home, or law enforcement just happens to know where Wint's cellphone was during the time in question?
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Now, when I read stuff like this.. a little bird whispers in my ear: parallel construction.
What's more likely, Wint's DNA was recovered from a pizza crust in a burning home, or law enforcement just happens to know where Wint's cellphone was during the time in question?
I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that recovering DNA off of a pizza crust that was in a burning house and then drenched by the fire department is a little thin. It's not impossible, but it raises my antenna.
This wouldn't have happened with Papa John's (Score:2)
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That overly buttery stuff that's so rich it makes me want to throw up from a mile away? Eww.
I prefer their nice pizza sauce.
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Machine learning? (Score:2, Insightful)
A small percentage of African slaves were brought to the USA. [brainpickings.org]
From fewer than 400,000 slaves came over 37 Million. [wikipedia.org]
The USA's reward for being a minor player in the trade and allowing its slaves to greatly increase in number is everlasting pay-back.
Are these crazy comments a product of naive machine learning algorithms?
Or code used for illicit communications?
Any ideas?
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/. numbers station.
Re:Machine learning? (Score:5, Informative)
Are these crazy comments a product of naive machine learning algorithms?
Or code used for illicit communications?
Any ideas?
I have some ideas.
The Savopoulos -Savvas, his wife Amy, and their 10 years old son Phillip (luckily, their 2 daughters, Abi and Katerina, 19 and 16 years old, were not in the house)- is a Greek-American family that (along with their 57 years old El Salvadorian faithful maid Veralicia Figueroa) were, all together, tortured and murdered by someone who cannot freely be called sub-human... because of his race - so, as a contribution to the discussion and to the American society (in which both Abi and Katerina will live - understand this before anyone accuse me for posting "racist facts"):
USA, 2013 - Arrests by Race - Black
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter: 52.2%
Robbery: 56.4%
Population by Race - Black : 13.2%.
sources: FBI [fbi.gov] - CENSUS [census.gov]
* Both Abi and Katerina will honor their parents and their little brother (plus, their faithful maid) by living in the American society as their family teached them... o Theos na anapausi tis psixes ton Sabba, Amis, Phillipou, kai Veralicia - Abi kai Katerina, zoi se logou sas.
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someone who cannot freely be called sub-human... because of his race
You can call him sub-human (if that means anything) as much as you want, what you can't do is then extrapolate it to say that all people with black skin are sub-human.
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when attempting to understand something pathetic and useless
Actually, I found it rather interesting to consider -- given that African Americans are so fond of shouting oppression. Yet they seem to have flourished here rather well, with plenty of opportunity to advance in society, have many elected officials and business leaders and finally, even a President.
Just because you don't like a statement that may be made inappropriately does not mean it's completely without merit.
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Actually, I found it rather interesting to consider -- given that African Americans are so fond of shouting oppression. Yet they seem to have flourished here rather well, with plenty of opportunity to advance in society, have many elected officials and business leaders and finally, even a President.
So when did we have a US President who was the descendant of slaves brought over to the US?
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what i find interesting is that people who ascribe moronic connections: skin color and intelligence, for example, are, by definition of making that ignorant connection and taking it seriously, stupid people.
What you're doing is called "begging the question." How do you know there isn't a connection between race and intelligence, when so many tests over the years show otherwise?
And why do you oversimplify race to "skin color?" You don't change races when you get a tan right?
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let us say, just for the sake of argument (i don't really believe your ignorance), that skin color and race are correlated somehow
it's a bell curve. you understand that, right?
so, for example, we have on one end one of the most cerebral presidents we've maybe ever had, at least since wilson: barack obama. obviously more intelligent than the vast majority of white people, as well as black people. more intelligent than people of all races, period
what is the value, exactly, of saying that because his skin is b
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what is the value, exactly, of saying that because his skin is brown, that we have to ascribe some sort of negative modifier on how we perceive his intelligence
None, because as an individual we can make an individualized determination for him.
intelligence is an INDIVIDUAL value. it does no good to class all people according to an arbitrary signifier.
It does if that arbitrary signifier has correlations with important outcomes.
The "good" is that it allows us to spend resources more efficiently when we want to influence those outcomes, or to conserve resources and accept certain things instead of trying to fight them.
As an example, there is a great deal of money and time being spent to address racial achievement gaps in education. The assumption is the aggregate statistics
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I think you must have some kind of mental disability or personality disorder to be going on and on about this in such a ranting fashion. Hopefully it makes you feel better to say a bunch of nonsense and then add "objectively true." Sad person.
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we're dealing with racists here
to believe in racism is to be a stupid person because to believe in it requires falling for a logical fallacy
if you don't understand that you are indeed a stupid person. objectively true. to hold a belief that requires low iq is to be a stupid person. objectively determined truth of low intelligence
i don't really give a shit what you think of me. because i am 100% correct here. racists are stupid people. you have to be a genuinely dumb, low iq, moron to believe the borken "if.
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Have you considered the possibility that you may be too dumb to objectively decide how smart other people are?
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on the issue of racism, no
i do not know many things about many topics. all of us are ignorant of many things
but i know enough about racism to understand that racists are not intelligent people. i am absolutely certain of that
oh i am certain you can find some mathematician who can do complex topological analysis in his head who is a fervent racist. there's also mathematicians who can't balance their checkbooks or know how to talk to girls. much like autism, extreme intelligence in a small domain does not oft
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i'm not really sure this argument is worth having with you though, because i doubt you have enough intellectual capacity to appreciate the argument, since it requires a low iq to believe in racism. by believing in racism, and all of the logical fallacies that come with it, you have objectively proven to me that you are a stupid person. i don't respect you
Yes genetic variance between individuals of the same race dwarfs variance between races. Everyone really is a unique special snowflake especially when environmental and tribal conformity is excluded from the equation.
Some do not understand or at the very least do not find these ideas intuitive. (Have a feeling my insurance agent is one of them)... So you feed trolls and call people morons and stupid people and say you don't respect them.
Racism is unfortunate but what saddens me the most is general catego
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You disrespect people based on the color of their skin. Therefore you deserve no respect. You withhold respect for ignorant reasons. You see a skin color, and make a baseless judgment on intellect and character from that. Which, ironically, is proof you are unintelligent and of low character. Because to believe racist thoughts is only possible if you lack cognitive capacity in certain areas of reasoning and social intelligence, and if you have bad intent on society and individuals in general.
You're a disres
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You need to look into the field of toppigenetics for the answers to those questions.
Wait..Is toppigenetics the study of the DNA of toppings on pizza?
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Wait..Is toppigenetics the study of the DNA of toppings on pizza?
No its the study of the mitochondrial inheritance mechanisms of topo gigio [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topo_Gigio]
Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! (Score:4, Insightful)
Ghetto? No DNA testing required...case closed.
Even in the Ghetto, a multiple murder in cold blood would be thoroughly investigated. But it is obvious you aren't a real SJW, because these days the real SJWs are complaining that the cops spend too much time focusing on crimes in the ghetto.
Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Even in the Ghetto, a multiple murder in cold blood would be thoroughly investigated.
Say what you like, but it certainly seems clear to me that progress in criminal investigations happens much faster when moneyed or attractive people are involved. Like Atlanta police managing to capture a serial killer [decaturish.com] days after he shot a white woman, but months after he shot a bunch of homeless guys.
In DC, where 2/3 killings goes unsolved, where DNA testing was suspend last month over 'inadequate' procedures, and where 15-20% of open cases have untested DNA evidence, they manage to test and return results from a pizza in under a week and arrest the suspect the next day.
Seriously, if you think police apply exactly the same resources and intensity to the killing of Joe Biden's neighbor as to multiple kidnappings in Tremont [wikipedia.org], you're being naive.
Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! (Score:5, Interesting)
Of course police should apply more resources to high profile cases and areas where violent crimes are more rare.
My safe neighborhood, with zero murders ever, pays as much (or more) into the police budget as a violent neighborhood that has multiple murders a year.
If God forbid we do one day have a murder, I would expect cops to be all over that shit. We should be a much higher priority than the violent neighborhood because we've earned that priority.
That said, cops are largely idiots when it comes to dealing with problem areas. I don't know why they tolerate them so much, except the cynical view that they are more interested in making money than stopping crime. A great example is prostitution... why are they the clients of prostitutes? To make money. If they wanted to end coercive prostitution, they would do this:
1. Hire a prostitute
2. "Do it"
3. Refuse to pay
4. Wait for the enforcer/pimp/whoever to show up and make a threat
5. Shoot him (or arrest him)
There are far fewer pimps than prostitutes and clients. So attacking the pimps is the logical way to end it.
Instead their sting operations are to arrest the guys who DO pay as they're supposed to. WTF??
They could do something similar with drugs:
1. Buy drugs
2. Refuse to pay
3. Keep doing that
4. Wait for core violent element of the gang to come attack
5. Shoot them (or arrest them)
But nah, they'd rather set up a sting and arrest a couple users, or maybe a dealer so they can confiscate his property... pretty ridiculous.
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Sorry, "why are they *arresting* the clients of prostitutes"
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If they wanted to end coercive prostitution, they would do this:
The best way to end coercive prostitution is to legalize commercial sex. But coercive prostitution is far less common than people are led to believe, and hookers with pimps tend to be better paid and less likely to be victims of violence.
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hookers with pimps tend to be better paid and less likely to be victims of violence.
That's interesting. I have no idea what the overall statistics are, but the most disturbing prostitution stories (to me) generally involve pimps. There was a good episode of "Vice News" about prostitution and they told the stories of girls who were being manipulated emotionally by pimps, and occasionally hooked on drugs or beaten... but mostly emotional manipulation and financial threats (kicking them out).
To me that's the bad part of prostitution. I'm not sure legalizing it would make it much better... you
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That's interesting. I have no idea what the overall statistics are
A very good place to start is by reading SuperFreakonomics which has a chapter on the economics of prostitution. The Village Voice did a series on the myths [villagevoice.com] of human trafficking and "forced prostitution".
but the most disturbing prostitution stories (to me) generally involve pimps
Of course. It has become politically incorrect to blame the prostitutes, and of course they can't blame the johns, because there are too many of them and they vote. So "the pimps" are a convenient target, and we don't let facts get in the way of that. The truth is that crime has fallen dramatically in A
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I think legalizing it would make things better.
Abusive pimps and johns would quickly find themselves in jail as sex workers are able to go to the police and report crimes against them. The need for pimps would also decrease as likeminded sex workers could form houses of business with security personnel. Or others make clients go through more thorough screening while they work as private contractors.
It would also be harder to spread disease as you could make licensed sex workers go through regular STD screen
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While this sounds like a terrific idea, I don't think it will work.
Your first scenario is not permissible (the "Do it" part is proscribed); a cop can't have sex to make an arrest, nor could the department legally require officers to have sex as part of their job.
The second scenario is plausible except that you assume that the LEOs have as much or more "firepower" than the gangs. In fact some kinds of crime pay so well that law enforcement is way over their heads trying to fight back. Maybe not so bad as w
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nor could the department legally require officers to have sex as part of their job.
I'm sure they could find volunteers.
The second scenario is plausible except that you assume that the LEOs have as much or more "firepower" than the gangs.
True but I'm assuming the entire gang isn't going to show up for every incident (unless it's quite a small gang to begin with). I guess if the police started doing this regularly, they might.. on the other hand, they might also just cut their losses and stop hassling people who don't pay because it's not worth getting into a surprise gun fight with professionals over $50 (or whatever).
On the other hand, for a big drug deal where a lot of armed criminals really might show
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One other (probably the major) problem with your suggestions:
Scenario #1: The pimp won't show up to threaten the cop (playing a deadbeat john). What will happen is that the pimp will beat up or kill the prostitute for not bringing home the money.
Scenario #2: The same as in #1. The sucker who sells the cop the drugs and doesn't get paid will be tortured and/or murdered as payback for "stealing" the money.
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And every individual has the right to Freedom of NON-Association - the right to NOT live with people they don't want to
If you don't want to live near people with different coloured skin, that's up to you, just don't get all offended when people identify you as a moronic racist.
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Because there are more whites than blacks you fucking piece of shit.
Do the math before you get so riled up, Mr. Coward. The numbers aren't even close to the population ratio, demographically.
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If you pick a black person and then pick a random victim, it's more likely the victim will be white than black, because there are more white people than black people.
Then why are there more murders committed by black people (against all sorts of victims) then would be accounted for by their percentage of the population? What is your point, exactly? Yes, there are more "white" people than "black" people in the general population. That's not what's being discussed. What's being discussed is the rate of crime coming out of specific demographics.
Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! (Score:4, Informative)
If you pick a black person and then pick a random victim, it's more likely the victim will be white than black, because there are more white people than black people.
Then why are there more murders committed by black people (against all sorts of victims) then would be accounted for by their percentage of the population? What is your point, exactly? Yes, there are more "white" people than "black" people in the general population. That's not what's being discussed. What's being discussed is the rate of crime coming out of specific demographics.
Income inequality if the largest driver of murders. Homicide has a r=0.8 correlation with income inequality. [nih.gov]. 10% of whites are in poverty in the USA, but 27% of blacks are in poverty. [kff.org] Poverty (income inequality), crime, and race are all related in the USA. That's not good, but it does open options because there are a lot more levers available to pull. Reduce minority poverty, and minority crime will probably drop too. There are lots of ways to do that, but it takes a huge effort to do so.
Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Reduce minority poverty, and minority crime will probably drop too. There are lots of ways to do that, but it takes a huge effort to do so.
So what do you propose? Use government power to force minority mothers to marry, and to force the fathers or children to stay at home, become educated, and care enough to raise children who will actually attend school? Are you saying that a kid who is born into a household with one young, under-educated parent is going to be starting out life with that disadvantage because other people aren't poor? Do you really think that places like Baltimore, which spend way above average per student on education, and have an endless parade of subsidies and programs to provide resources to people in poverty ... just need to have the government do more than is already being done?
The problem is cultural. Persistent poverty in the worst parts of Appalachia, or in west Baltimore, don't exist because other people are prosperous. That entire meme is just SJW hand-wringing BS. Poorly disguised resentment of success that's trotted out to do anything to avoid addressing the cultural issues that are the actual problem in such places.
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I blame the problem of black poverty and the destruction of the black family on the war on drugs.
18 year old black kid gets mixed up with drugs because 18 year olds are stupid -> busted -> jail -> no college -> crappy job (record) -> loses faith in the system -> resorts to harder crime -> felon -> not there to raise his kids -> 18 year old black kid gets mixed up with drugs... and repeat.
And yes, of course, that same cycle can apply to white people, but, come on. Initial condition
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OK, so really the GP is saying that the only reason we have people in poverty is because we have other people who aren't in poverty. Which is nonsense.
Prosperity is not a fixed-size meal to be spread around. If it were, we'd all be living like paupers because the population has grown so much. Prosperity is created, and people of modest means create it all the time. Then they become the ones who are resented for no longer being impoverished. Too bad, they earne
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"Cultural issues" my ass, white boy.
There are plenty of poor white people who are poor for their own cultural reasons. The fact that you think culture is the same as skin color shows what a confused person you are. Culture is about behavior, not pigment. Avoiding that reality is just more PC deflection on your part. Nice try. Well, not really.
Poverty is caused by lack of money.
No, it's not. Poverty is caused by not doing the things that make you prosperous. Certainly a kid born into a household where nobody does the things necessary to provide a prosperous environment is a v
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This is just a tautology
Not at all. It summarizes a causal relationship. The disingenuous GP is the one that says, "Having little money is a case of having little money." He doesn't address the why, whereas I'm pointing out that it's the lack of specific action that causes the lack of desired results.
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Income inequality if the largest driver of murders. Homicide has a r=0.8 correlation with income inequality.
That study wasn't comparing income inequality to other drivers of murder so it's not evidence that it's the largest driver. Also the conclusion says:
however, the causal relationship between inequality, trust and homicide remains unclear given the cross-sectional design of this study
So maybe countries with high homicide rates result in a breakdown of social trust, and that lack of trust results in lack of investment and achievement among certain groups, leading to higher income inequality.
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You're not looking at the cause of poverty here, just blaming it. You're also not mentioning a culture of hatred against getting educated, where people are so distrustful of the system that anyone wanting to better themselves to escape are culturally shamed (uncle tom, race traitor) into remaining ignorant. Where people care more about Queen B and Jay Z than math and science.
The worst part, are the real racists who EXCUSE bad behavior as if it is part of the racial makeup of blacks.
I am not dismissing the r
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Me on the other hand? I'm an island in a sea of indifference.
Which is fine until you're killed by someone who irrationally thinks you're responsible for their poverty. Or your home loses half its value because a change in the local demographics means an encroaching street crime problem. Indifference doesn't change the problem you'll have renegotiating your upside down mortgage. But that's fine, you're much too cool to worry about such stuff.
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I am not sure I understand what your point is. Are you saying the sole cause of poverty in the black community is because they name their kids Darnell and Jamal?
Or are you simply justifying bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior?
My point is, people like you are the closet racist that you think everyone else is, simply because you keep telling black people that they can't make it without white help (and a huge dose of white guilt). The fact is, that kind of racist attitude is exactly where a large ch
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What's being discussed is the rate of crime coming out of specific demographics
But you can't actually mention Demographics, unless it is to make whites look bad. Since that isn't the case here, it is racist.
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Unlike the poster above I don't think it is due to something innate in being black. There are plenty of majority places in the Caribbean, Africa and the Americas in which the crime rate is low and normal.
There are other factors involved - oh, maybe, single-parent homes; a society which hits people with a triple-wham
Re:Rich Family Dies, World At Peril!!! (Score:5, Informative)
There are plenty of majority places in the Caribbean, Africa and the Americas in which the crime rate is low and normal.
Hmm, are you sure about that? Murder rates for the Caribbean [about.com]:
U.S. Virgin Islands: 39 murders per 100,000
St. Kitts and Nevis: 38 per 100,000
Guatemala: 38 per 100,000
Colombia: 37 per 100,000
Belize: 30.8 per 100,000
Trinidad and Tobago: 35 per 100,000
Bahamas: 27.4 per 100,000
Puerto Rico (a Commonwealth of the United States): 26 per 100,000
Mexico: 24 per 100,000
Dominican Republic: 25 per 100,000
St. Lucia: 25 per 100,000
St. Vincent and The Grenadines: 22 per 100,000
Panama: 22 per 100,000
Dominica: 22 per 100,000
That's compared to about 4.7 per 100k in the US, which is considered high for the developed world.
I didn't bother checking African crime rates because I'm pretty confident you're wrong there.
By "majority places" were you referring to really small places like individual neighborhoods or something?
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Well there are a few in the Caribbean: http://www.examiner.com/articl... [examiner.com]
Martinique has the lowest rate, with 4.2 per 100k. However, it's only 300k people, compared with 2.7 million in Jamaica (the highest murder rate), so I'm not sure it makes much difference to the overall crime rate in the Caribbean.
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Because Martinique represents a major country, in the same way that Hawaii does, it participates in the mainland's police capabilities.
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It's true that there are concerns that the drug-trade is coming to with its violence.
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This perpetrator was a recent immigrant from Guyana, so you don't get to use the Slavery Excuse (tm) that always gets dragged out in cases like this.
Re:Americans have no loyalty (Score:5, Interesting)
Where do you live, that someone who murdered a whole family can rely on his family to become his accomplices?
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a person who helps another commit a crime.
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Contesting arrest (Score:2)
Running from the law is a crime. Just as resisting arrest is a crime.
Although rather absurdly you can be arrested with "resisting arrest" being your only charge, meaning that you're guilty of not wanting to be arrested for no crime whatsoever?
Because it's not legal to contest illegal or erroneous arrests by physically resisting them. It's legal to contest them by pleading not guilty or by negotiating to get the charges dropped. It's also legal to sue the ass of the cop who arrested you.
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they should bring back public execution or torture for this dude.
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Welcome to reality.
We are not all created equal. We do not all have the same level of life. Deal with it.
Yes, the people who make the laws (you know, the politicians who live in this neighborhood) do get treated differently, thats normal. Not treating them differently would be impossible, and you not understanding that shows a real lack of understanding of how people work.
'Fairness' is an entirely human construct made up by humans to mean treating everyone the same. It does not actually mean treat them
Re:If the rich carried their fair share... (Score:4, Insightful)
Your whole "this is the fault of rich people" narrative is a bunch of SJW BS.
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Equating mental illness with depraved criminal behavior.
Sighs wistfully.
I remember my first troll...
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"After we found out he is a black man that allegedly killed a white family - oh, and their maid, I guess."
Well, sure. Because the SJWs are insisting that police do less to hunt down black guys who are responsible for the plague of murders the commit within their own demographic. Since, you know, it's racist and oppressive to attempt to arrest those guys.
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"After we found out he is a black man that allegedly killed a white family - oh, and their maid, I guess."
Well, sure. Because the SJWs are insisting that police do less to hunt down black guys who are responsible for the plague of murders the commit within their own demographic. Since, you know, it's racist and oppressive to attempt to arrest those guys.
I don't understand why the fact that Black people kill Black people negates the fact that law enforcement is often racist. Can't both be true?
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I don't understand why the fact that Black people kill Black people negates the fact that law enforcement is often racist. Can't both be true?
Yes, there can be racist cops, just like there are racist black people. That has nothing to do with the assertion that the DC police only went after this quadruple murderer because the killer is black and victims are white. DC police go after killers every day. Given the local demographic, most of the killers are black, just like most of their victims. The GP wants to imagine that the DC police don't ever go after killers of black victims, which is BS on the face of it.
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DNA on pizza is just a cover story for a $HUGE_INVASION_OF_PRIVACY.
e.g. they probably asked NSA/Verizon/etc whose cellphones were in the house in the last few weeks.
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" Daron Dylon Wint, who is described as 5'7 and 155 lbs and might also go by the name "Steffon."" He's BLACK. But it would be racist to describe his skin color.
Do they always specify when someone is white, or is that just the assumed default color of a person?
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White people riot at the ballot box.
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If black criminal is killed, blacks come out and start rioting and destroying property. Who is going to riot now?
I would say rich people, but they'd just hire a Mexican to do it for less than minimum wage.
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DNA analysis, pictures, and everything. It's like it was all finished before the act. Maybe the CEO just had to be removed for some reason?
This was my suspicion when I first heard of the murders; that it was a black bag job. But who knows? It could be legit. We'll have to see how things shape up.