Crime wave in 2011?

It has been two years since the stock market crash and a world economic crisis spread. Millions and millions of people not just in America, but all over the world, continue to suffer from unemployment, struggling with no source of income to support themselves and their families and debt. Due to these factors, it brings upon a great deal of stress for many people, and when stress is a problem in a continued economic crisis, people begin to loose it.

In the last few months, there has been an escalation of violence throughout the United States. In September, there was an attempted assassination on Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri but the perpetrator mistakenly attacked the dean of a college, were the Governor was speaking. In Florida, about a month ago, a man opened fire on a school board meeting because his wife had been laid off by the school district. At the beginning of this month, we had the shooting in Tucson on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.  In this last week alone, there have been a number of shootings at schools in Los Angeles and eleven shootings on police officers across the country. Also last week in Santa Ana, California, police uncovered graffiti on two separate occasions which had scathing words for a proposed plot to kill California Governor Jerry Brown.

This is disturbing news. Many people may just say that some of this is nothing new or that some people are just 'venting their frustrations'. But if you look at what is happening across the world, people are revolting everywhere from Tunisia to Egypt, and to England and Greece. People are fed up with government and living in terrible times.

Back here in the United States, a new AP survey involving some of the leading economists in the world, say that in 2011, the outlook for economic recovery should be more optimistic. So if this is the case, then in 2011, we should see a decline in crime and more employment, right?

But this is not entirely optimistic. As States across this country continue to suffer from skyrocketing deficits, they'll have to find some way to either raise taxes and push more people to the brink of despair, or implement severe cuts, which will also put people out of work. Some of them of course, can afford not to work, like the ones that have gigantic pension funds.

Across the world, every country seems to be having the same problem, financially and people suffer.

So, due to the continuing severe economic factors, will we start to see a crime wave in 2011?

I'm predicting we will... unfortunately.