There's a common perception that crimes are
late-night affairs. This may reveal deep-seated psychological attitudes toward
darkness and light but it's quite mistaken. Nobody should base their behavior on
the idea that the streets are "safe" at 6 p.m. and "unsafe" at 12:00 p.m. Crime,
like the A-Plus, is a 24-hour business. That's why the police work all three
shifts. The last two crimes against my person (spread out over 20 years) both
took place around the evening rush hour, in heavily trafficked
areas.
It depends on the perpetrator's goals. If you want,
for instance, to encounter a stranger quickly and take money off his or her
person, standing in a dark alley at 3 a.m. is a really stupid strategy
since few people are IN alleys at that hour, and the few
who stagger along have probably just blown their wad at a bar. The
afternoon rush hour makes more sense. Many more folks are abroad, and they're
apt to have money then. Toward the end of the week, people are likelier to have
pay in their pocket at that hour also. They're tired, they're rushing to get
home and they're not paying attention to their surroundings. They're less wary
of others because there are so many others about, thus they're easier to
approach.
-- Tony West
> > The face shooting incident was at 6:00 in the evening. > Does someone have any indication of the TIMES when > these incidents occurred? > The first incident where the victim was shot in the face > struck me as unusual, since, if I recall right, it occurred > Pretty early in the evening. |
Title: RE: [UC] crime warning
- RE: [UC] crime warning Jonathan Cass
- Re: [UC] crime warning Charles H. Buchholtz
- Fw: [UC] crime warning Anthony West
- Re: [UC] crime warning Wilma de Soto
- Re: [UC] crime warning Krfapt
- Re: [UC] crime warning Shaera