Petty spats turning deadly?

2-12-06 news item from Milwaukee has been

haunting me...that part of me with the sociology

background . So I pass it on to my readers.

 " While violent crime has been at historic lows nationwide and

in cities like New York, Miami and Los Angeles, it is rising

sharply in Milwaukee and in many other places across the

country. And while such crime in the 1990s was characterized

by battles over gangs and drug turf, the police say the current

rise in homicides has been set off by something more bewildering:

petty disputes that hardly even seem the stuff of fistfights.

Milwaukee Police Chief Nannette Hegerty calls it "the rage thing".

We're seeing a very angry population, and....they go right

to guns," she said."

 

It makes me think of Columbine. And by the way, the word is

out that boys who did that were on anti-depressants or derivatives

of Serotonin uptake inhibitors. You can read about that at

DrugAwareness.org....M Blake Tracey.