Flashmobs: The new carjacking

Remember the epidemic of carjackings about ten years ago? Thugs would jump inside a car stopped at a traffic light or gas station and force the driver to drive off. In many cases they'd kill the driver and dump the body--all to steal a car.

Because the crime took place at unobserved intersections or gas stations, thugs realized it was relatively risk-free, which resulted in several hundred (if not thousands) of such crimes.

Now we're seeing what appears to be the new equivalent of carjacking: the "flashmob." If you don't already know, click here to see one in action.

Then click here to see a list of known flashmob crimes in the U.S. Note the incidence each year: one or two each in 2002, '05, '06 and '07. Then eight in 2008, 37 in 2009 (32 of those in one city, Denver), 26 in 2010 (various cities), then this year an explosion: 78 so far.

This is a classic exponential growth rate, suggesting huge popularity among the thug/leech class, and zero fear of being prosecuted or shot.

Those of you with good memories will recall that the carjacking epidemic lasted several years, and at its peak there were several a week nationwide. It lost its luster for the thug class when cops and judges began to crack down and throw the book at perps: a 20-year sentence does eventually get the attention of all but the brain-dead.

Flashmob crimes will almost certainly take much longer to extinguish, for three main reasons: First, the perps are likely to kill or injure fewer victims than the carjackers did. This is partly because each member of the mob is likely to only loot a few tens of dollars, so there's no point in killing the witnesses/victims. As the libs say, these are just crimes against property, so...no big deal. Because as the libs say, property is theft.

Unless it's their property, of course.

Second: The welfare state worm has had another decade to burrow into the nation's psyche, so more of the public is disposed to tolerate theft by "the poor."

Third: Barack Obama and Eric Holder. These two have turned the United States into a nation of connections rather than a nation of laws. 'Nuff said.

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