![]() ![]() The remaining problems are all over the map, each a small bar on the Pareto chart. While you can’t totally ignore the fallout, you relatively quickly find and fix the systematic problems, but then you are usually still left with a process yield that is well below an acceptable level. I.e., we look at the perpetrators/victims, collecting as much detail about their lives as possible.Ĭompare this to industrial process control. In an attempt to understand the factors that determine this process yield, we instinctively are drawn to examining the process fallout in as much detail as possible. So the analogy is on pretty thin ice from the start, but what the heck.) The fallout from that process could be reworked or recycled or, worst case, scrapped at some nominal cost. (I once managed to get a process yield up over 98%, with a lot of time and effort, but I couldn’t keep it there for more than a couple months. An interesting phenomenen.Īt the risk of being irresponsibly disrespectful to the subject under discussion, I can’t help but relate this to past experience in ‘process control’.įive to ten humans lost to murder per 100K per year would be a process yield of 99.99% to 99.995% per year. In spite of video games, military adventures and violent movies. So why the fall in murder rate? On this basis, our North American society has “advanced” ethically. When nurture says it doesn’t matter a whit, and is more conventient, we go with expediency. A terminal solution for a momentary annoyance – even a potential annoyance, if the mosquito is still in the air. ![]() It is more a mosquito-squashing ethic: we don’t brush off the annoyance of a mosquito, we squash it and move on. I don’t think it is just a “nothing to lose” scenario. Death has little import within certain cultural groups. In Nigeria, killing is ubiquitous, with the police forces using killing as a tool as well as the “bad” guy. People lock themselves in the room they are, to slow down or avoid contact with someone who has broken in an adjacent room, apparently. ![]() In Johanenesburg, South Africa, the B&E course is now to murder whoever is in the house being burgled. I go for a cultural devaluation of another life. But murder does not seem to be a necessary tool for that. Drug users and addicts have been around a long, long time and undoubtedly have always been responsible for property crime as they seek to fund their addiction. Heroin and cocaine were readily available during this time, as well. I have read of writers alive in Harlem in the ’30s, when there were large numbers of poor, urban blacks locked into Harlem with no opportunities, who said that it was a safe environment. The 15 -24 age group has fallen.īut I wonder. The interpretation, of course, is demographics. One wonders about the academic interpretation of this fact. But the overall murder rate dropping shows this not to be true: as the American population has increased, the area in which they live has not, yet the murder rate has gone down to 50% of its height. Ghettos, by inference, were death zones due to too many people in too small a space. In the ’60s and ’70s it was academically known (from rat studies) that population murder rates were proportional to population density. ![]()
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