On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:55:23 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 11/24/2013 6:10 PM, Cheri wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Consider the numbers and the types of crimes. While there may be the
> >> occasional well bred and wealthy killer, far more of the killers have
> >> a disadvantaged background, little money, bad parents, bad
> >> neighbourhoods and bad choices. Seriously, look at class pictures of
> >> kids in preppy private schools and compare them with a class picture
> >> from an inner city school. Consider the odds of kids in those two
> >> pictures being convicted or or a victim of a violent crime.
> >>
> >
> >
> > So, what's your point? I didn't say all, I said some, and *some* very
> > privileged preppy kids do turn out bad...like the Menendez Brothers,
> > Philip Markoff...just to name a couple.
> >
> \
> I would have thought that my point was pretty obvious..... that there
> are a small number or violent crimes committed by the supposedly well
> bred. You can name a small number of them because their being rich and
> their being the exceptional case makes headlines. Meanwhile, many
> thousands of murders are committed by the more or less disenfranchised.
> You may hear of one or two preppy murders per year in the US. Meanwhile
> there are close to 400 murders in Detroit alone. Internationally there
> is a pretty high corelation between poverty and murder rates.
>
> Exceptions do not make the rule, but feel free to live in denial.

The exceptions are crimes that are so egregious that their personal
fortunes can't buy them off and that's the reality of the criminal
"justice" system in the USA.

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