Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts

Re:Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts by PaintBucket on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @11:09AM (#2580106)

I guess I should have written more if I wanted to be taken seriously. Crime, like everything else, takes time. If you play video games 4 hours a day, that's 4 hours a day that you are neither able to shoot people, nor are you outside to be shot. Given that the demos likely to commit crimes and play video games overlap so strongly, this has to be considered.

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Re:Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts by jobu on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @11:20AM (#2580156)

Excellent point, but I think you could just say cheap electronic entertainment. The Internet, torrents, Netflix, and video games in particular could be a huge factor in the crime rate. They are (relatively) cheap, ubiquitous, and huge time sinks.

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Re:Steady Decline in Major Crime Baffles Experts by hencq on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @11:29AM (#2580189)

Good point. The sad thing is of course that if you were able to show a clear correlation between (violent) video games and criminals, the most probable reaction would be to ban these games.

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