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...inspired a certain amount of fudging (exactly how much is unknown). Police hunted for bargains on eBay so that they could adjust theft reports to reflect lower values of stolen goods, magically transforming major crimes into minor ones. A fight involving a weapon - aggravated assault - might become a mere fistfight by the time the police report was filed. Nevertheless, behind the gamesmanship was a genuine drop in crime. (Murder is down an astonishing 80% from its peak in New York City, and it's very hard to fudge a murder.) Similar declines have been recorded in many other cities...
...does not result from directives from any formal gang hierarchy, but rather that it is the result of beefs between smaller neighborhood groups that can be started by anything from a kidnapping, as in the Baltimore case, to a simple look of disrespect on a rival's face. A fistfight among young men can escalate into drive-by shootings that elicit identical retribution, finally leading to the slaying of people who may or may not have been involved, including innocent bystanders. Says David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control at John Jay College of Criminal Justice...
...really get into a fistfight with someone who played one of your games at the amusement park? Not at that job, but there were definitely some jobs where things got heated. I was usually the one who knew how not to get his ass kicked - to run faster than the other guy, or to get a few insults in and then get the hell out of there. I'm not quite as chivalrous as James is in the movie...
...Even when nobody sees the gesture, it may have an adverse effect," Chandler says, "leaving us more convinced that other people are nasty and hostile. This may lead to additional hostile acts down the road." If today's finger can indeed be tomorrow's fistfight, the best bet might simply be to keep our hands in our pockets...
...Listing out the sources that had been used, the quotes that had been lifted from official transcripts, and the artistic liberties that had been taken in dramatizing moments that never actually happened (turns out George W. Bush and his father never did have a fistfight in the Oval Office), the guide is a compelling companion piece to the film, suggesting that many of the behind-closed-doors moments in W. may not be that far-fetched after...