[*BCM*] Bostoncriticalmass Digest, Vol 39, Issue 48

[Jim Leonard]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:34:21PM -0400, ian schwartz wrote:
> I don't know if I agree. When you consider that casual drug use is so
> prevalent among the youth in Boston, terms like addict become blurred.
> Somebody in his 20's using drugs on a bi-weekly basis might not think
> of himself as a drug addict, and indeed may not be judged by other
> drug users as being one. How many days a week do you have to get high
> before you get the label?

But I fail to see how this is related to bike theft.  Most of the "casual"
drug use is not financed by theft.

--jim




> 
> Perhaps there are actual numbers in existence somewhere rather than conjecture?
> 
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:16:46 -0400
> > From: John Hays <jjhays2 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [*BCM*] John Hays
> > To: Boston Critical Mass <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>
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> > I apologize if my language was unclear - I didn't  mean to suggest that,
> > as individuals, college students and 20 year olds are, generally
> > thieves. I was expressing, in perhaps too colloquially a manner,
> > generalizations about those groups across a large population. If you
> > were to take a million people in their 50s, and a million people in
> > their 20s, the odds are overwhelming that the group of 20 year olds
> > would contain far, far more thieves than the group of 50 year olds. Of
> > the data we have about criminal behavior, we are able to make a few
> > highly supported generalizations, among them being that young people (as
> > a group) commit more crime than older people, and men (as a group)
> > commit more crime than women (as well as a few other, less fashionable
> > generalizations that we don't necessarily have to get into).
> >
> > I should point out that I am 24, and the overwhelming majority of my
> > friends are obviously in their 20s.
> >
> > And I rather think my position is far, far more defensible than the
> > ludicrous notion that --drug addicts-- are responsible for most of the
> > city's property theft.
> >
> > - John
> >
> >
> >
> > ian schwartz wrote:
> > > "College students, and young people in their 20s generally, are
> > > inveterate thieves"
> > >
> > > Is this really your viewpoint? That 20-somethings and college kids
> > > steal out of some long-ingrained habit? Or were you just making a
> > > broad sweeping generality for the sake of driving home your poorly
> > > thought out point?
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