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Feel free to be less cryptic. Thanks for visiting. tgd

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Of course, the way the legal system is now, you can get busted for all kinds of inane stuff. Theoretically, most Americans violate the law at least once a day.

Don't forget that maybe 10 percent of the population is "using something" at any given time. The opioid problem is simply Bad wherever you go. Folks needing a fix aren't always particular in the way they get their money.

My old criminology prof used to talk about something called "relative deprivation." Sociology is a discipline of bunkum sometimes, but he may have been on to something here. Reputedly, it is the kind of envy that some people develop when comparing their status in life with those around them--and take any measure to get some of the good life for themselves. Watch enough TV or hang out on social media enough and it's bound to happen. Too bad that everybody lies.

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Well, along the lines of bunkum: Philadelphia is by no means a "law and order" territory, yet the criminal records are there and must involve real crime. It was not always like this. Thanks for visiting. tgd

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I don't think I would be moving to Philly anytime soon. We have a big enough problem in my small town of drug usage, gangs, home break ins, r**es and pedophiles and such. And, we get out of town folks from Milwaukee and even Chicago, we are on the drig highway from the Great Lakes and Canada.

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Sorry to hear that this disease has infected you in Wisconsin. Those who want to "fundamentally change" my country have done a very good job of it. And they're not finished. Thanks for visiting. tgd

And what, dear readers, if the vast majority of these crimes are not simple drug possesion, or prostitution and the like -- as it is all too easy to assume? What then? It was not always like this. Thanks for visiting. tgd