Posts Tagged ‘Violent Crime’

In every city of our nation, there lurks a bevy of predators. These monsters stalk us like  lions  stalk their prey. They prey on our children, our wives, and our  loved  ones.

Every day of of the year, a man, woman or child  falls prey to one of these predators. We anguish and lament the loss of another precious life, and we weep and wail, and our hearts ache and break as we  mourn the  brutal rape, or kidnapping, or murder, or other violent  action that has happened to someone amongst us.

But  soon, the same event occurs a little time later, to another person.  Then  again, it happens. And again. Over and over, we are bombarded with stories about another person who has become victim to an act of violence. You would like to think that the astute and very brilliant minds would have found a solution. After all, they figured out how to go to the moon. They figured out how to do some rather marvelous things. They’ve been able to achieve some astounding things in our day, including enabling us to look at billions of stars we’ve never seen before. Too bad, those same minds can’t see the millions of criminals that are creeping up on us and gaining ground daily.

You’d think they would have been coming up with solutions to the problem. But, they haven’t. Might be they’re not so brilliant after all. The solutions they’ve come up with thus far are not working.

Sexual Predators Multiplying

Sexual predators are rising in numbers in this nation and around the world. In  America,  between 1980 and 1986, the number of sexual abuse cases  involving children tripled. There are more than 300,000 child sexual abuse reports investigated annually in our nation. [1] One rather incredible  statistic published in 2001 in the Annual Review of Sociology, and shown  in the U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics, [2] noted that for all kinds  of violent crime in the year 1998, including sexual assaults, 87.9 of  every one thousand adolescents between the ages of twelve to fifteen became victims. Read the rest of this entry »