Re: OT: Cleveeland cop dies on the line

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 23:55:34 -0500, "Tom Gardner"
<tom(spamless)@ohiobrush.com> wrote:

Officer Derek Owens died of a gunshot wound Saturday. The shooting took place a
few blocks from my shop and I just happen to be running errands in the
neighborhood and was a few hundred feet from the place of the gunfight.
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While this is indeed a tragedy for the community and the officers
family, it is also the totally expected outcome where the
condition of increasingly unequal distribution of income exists.

Thus the same socio-economic/cultural conditions of countries
with high GINI indici such as Columbia and Brazil should be
expected in US areas with similar GINIs. Note that in Brazil,
the police are powerless in increasingly large areas of their
major metro areas such as Sao Paulo and Rio, with Army units with
heavy weapons support including tanks, now being required to even
enter many areas.

Officer Owens and his family paid the ultimate price for the
existing socio-economc policies. He won't be the last.

Commonly income distribution is expressed by a value called the
GINI index or coefficient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality

FYI
[the GINI index below is X 100, i.e. 23.0 = 0.23]
a Gini of 0 indicates perfect equality of income, a Gini of 1
indicates perfect inequality of income, i.e. one person gets it
all and everyone else gets nothing. USA is #94 out of 134
countries behind Iran and Russia. Remember the GINI is a measure
of income distribution, not level.

ranked from most equal to least equal *DISTRIBUTION* of income
Country CIA Gini[5] rank
Sweden Sweden 23.0 1
Denmark Denmark 24.0 2
Slovenia Slovenia 24.0 3
Iceland Iceland 25.0 4
Austria Austria 26.0 5
the Czech Republic Czech Republic 26.0 6
Finland Finland 26.0 7
Luxembourg Luxembourg 26.0 8
Slovakia Slovakia 26.0 9
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina 26.2 10
Albania Albania 26.7 11
Belgium Belgium 28.0 12
France France 28.0 13
Germany Germany 28.0 14
Hungary Hungary 28.0 15
Malta Malta 28.0 16
Norway Norway 28.0 17
Croatia Croatia 29.0 18
Cyprus Cyprus 29.0 19
Belarus Belarus 29.7 20
Ethiopia Ethiopia 30.0 21
Montenegro Montenegro 30.0 22
Serbia Serbia 30.0 23
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan 30.3 24
Pakistan Pakistan 30.6 25
Europe European Union 30.7 26
the Netherlands Netherlands 30.9 27
Romania Romania 31.0 28
Ukraine Ukraine 31.0 29
Bulgaria Bulgaria 31.6 30
Ireland Republic of Ireland 32.0 31
Spain Spain 32.0 32
Canada Canada 32.1 33
Tajikistan Tajikistan 32.6 34
Mongolia Mongolia 32.8 35
Greece Greece 33.0 36
Italy Italy 33.0 37
Moldova Moldova 33.2 38
Bangladesh Bangladesh 33.4 39
Yemen Yemen 33.4 40
Switzerland Switzerland 33.7 41
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 33.9 42
Estonia Estonia 34.0 43
the United Kingdom United Kingdom 34.0 44
Egypt Egypt 34.4 45
Laos Laos 34.6 46
Tanzania Tanzania 34.6 47
South Korea South Korea 35.1 48
Australia Australia 35.2 49
Algeria Algeria 35.3 50
Lithuania Lithuania 36.0 51
Poland Poland 36.0 52
New Zealand New Zealand 36.2 53
Indonesia Indonesia 36.3 54
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan 36.5 55
Benin Benin 36.5 56
India India 36.8 57
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan 36.8 58
Mauritius Mauritius 37.0 59
Vietnam Vietnam 37.0 60
Latvia Latvia 37.7 61
Portugal Portugal 38.0 62
East Timor Timor-Leste 38.0 63
Guinea Guinea 38.1 64
Japan Japan 38.1 65
Israel Israel 38.6 66
Jordan Jordan 38.8 67
the Republic of Macedonia Republic of Macedonia 39.0 68
Malawi Malawi 39.0 69
Mauritania Mauritania 39.0 70
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso 39.5 71
Morocco Morocco 40.0 72
Tunisia Tunisia 40.0 73
Mali Mali 40.1 74
Georgia (country) Georgia 40.4 75
Ghana Ghana 40.8 76
Turkmenistan Turkmenistan 40.8 77
Armenia Armenia 41.0 78
Russia Russia 41.0 79
Senegal Senegal 41.3 80
Cambodia Cambodia 41.7 81
Thailand Thailand 42.0 82
Burundi Burundi 42.4 83
Singapore Singapore 42.5 84
Iran Iran 43.0 85
Nicaragua Nicaragua 43.1 86
Guyana Guyana 43.2 87
Turkey Turkey 43.6 88
Nigeria Nigeria 43.7 89
Kenya Kenya 44.5 90
the Philippines Philippines 44.5 91
Cameroon Cameroon 44.6 92
Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire 44.6 93
==> United States United States 45.0 94 <==
Uruguay Uruguay 45.2 95
Jamaica Jamaica 45.5 96
Uganda Uganda 45.7 97
Ecuador Ecuador 46.0 98
Malaysia Malaysia 46.1 99
Mexico Mexico 46.1 100
Rwanda Rwanda 46.8 101
People's Republic of China 46.9 102
Nepal Nepal 47.2 103
Mozambique Mozambique 47.3 104
Madagascar Madagascar 47.5 105
Venezuela Venezuela 48.2 106
Argentina Argentina 49.0 107
Costa Rica Costa Rica 49.8 108
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 50.0 109
The Gambia The Gambia 50.2 110
Swaziland Swaziland 50.4 111
Niger Niger 50.5 112
Zambia Zambia 50.8 113
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 50.9 114
the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic 51.6 115
Peru Peru 52.0 116
Hong Kong Hong Kong 52.3 117
El Salvador El Salvador 52.4 118
Colombia Colombia 53.8 119
Honduras Honduras 53.8 120
Chile Chile 54.9 121
Guatemala Guatemala 55.1 122
Panama Panama 56.1 123
Brazil Brazil 56.7 124
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 56.8 125
South Africa South Africa 57.8 126
Paraguay Paraguay 58.4 127
Bolivia Bolivia 59.2 128
Haiti Haiti 59.2 129
the Central African Republic Central African Republic 61.3
130
Sierra Leone Sierra Leone 62.9 131
Botswana Botswana 63.0 132
Lesotho Lesotho 63.2 133
Namibia Namibia 70.7 134

In the United States (by MSA) across time and internationally,
there is a very high correlation between quality of life measures
such as crimes against property, crimes against persons, and
homicide rates, etc.

Until recently individual US MSAs [metropolitan statistical
areas] estimates of GINI and crime statistics were available.
While this data is apparently still being complied it is no
longer available for download by the public. National and
internation income and trade date is becoming increaingly
restricted.


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
-------------------------------------------
He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).
.

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