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Bad parenting? Pfft. Thugs want iPods!]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://hideapod.com/]]>Mar 5th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/But the hide-a-pod thing is VERY funny.]]>Mar 5th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
About as far as you could extend the blame is by saying that white earphones are a dead giveaway, but.. that's pretty weak.]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
Apple—which has explored anti-theft locks in patent filings—had no comment." This could worst than DRM "Hey listen to this new track on my ipod (ipod disables self not recognizing its owners moist, soft touch)...aw crap its bricked" ]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 6th 2008 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
Before iPods, how else would you know somebody had something valuable on them? Sure, you can grab a laptop, but its bigger and more obvious. iPods could originally be recognized by the headphones, but now almost everybody uses a pmp rather than a cd player/radio. That means that anybody with headphones probably has something valuable + small on them.

I personally can see a correlation here.]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
"easy to hide, and very easy to spot someone using."

If they're so easy to hide, then you shouldn't be able to "spot someone using it" now should you?

I think that it is very pitiful that anyone would try and pin this on the popularity of Apple iPods. Like someone else already said, if everyone wasn't walking around with PMP's, they'd be walking around with some other expensive toy.

So, while we're blaming the influx of crime on technology, why not blame the cell phone!! It's equally small.. so I suppose that, now that the iPhone's out, crime rates will become even worse right?.. BS. Thats just rediculous. Be true Americans, blame it on Bush or something?]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/If you just stole an ipod, and stuck it in your pocket, its not easy to spot.
Not a contradiction. Also, I'm saying its pmp's in general. I agree that their blaming apple specifically.

Problem with "other expensive toys" is: if its not a pmp, its usually something more interactive. (sure many people have psp's, but you don't see huge masses of people walking around gaming). You use pmps while doing other things. (walking, reading, etc.) unlike most other toys.]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Very easy to hide, but it is pretty easy to spot me when I am using it.]]>Mar 5th 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5jEYbWLl60]]>Mar 5th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
seriously though, WTF?]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
kids need $#!% to do to to keep them from doing $#!%, we need youth centers that show kids positive role models, teach valuable work skills and proper ethics.

no one in our so called first world countries should be forced to live in poverty while working 14-hour days]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
Also, speaking of public schools, I'd be interested to see how many of those impoverished people who are working 14-hour days you are speaking of have high school diplomas. Entitlement spending should be limited to those adults that have high school diplomas (or equivalent); I already invested my tax dollars in you and if you can't even get a free diploma, you've just proven that you're a bad investment and no further money should be wasted on you.]]>Mar 5th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/so tax dollars spent on PMCs is preferable, WAR is a good investment right, banks always make money off of war.
so would you prefer just to get rid of the undesirables, since you take the fascist stance.]]>Mar 5th 2008 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
Try going to Maryland, where money is distributed based on how poorly schools do. That is, funding is "rewarded" to poorly-performing schools and subsequently taken away from schools that perform well. What you'll find is a bunch of schools with top-of-the-line equipment and faculty with high drop-out rates while the schools with high graduation rates and standardized test performance have schools that are literally falling apart.

At a certain point, it stops being about the money and becomes the responsibility of the parents and the individual. Studies like this one by the "Urban Institute" (in DC, with a huge black population) only serve to strengthen the self-fulfilling prophecies and learned helplessness of blacks. Instead of saying "the individual is responsible for crime," the Urban Institute says, "the iPod is responsible for crime." Now criminals (black or white) will say to themselves, "I wouldn't be doing this if iPods weren't so valuable," and attempt to rationalize the crime to the point of where it doesn't seem like a crime anymore, only a balancing of the unjust scales in our economy.

P.S., if you think my comment is racist, please research the situation further. ]]>Mar 5th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Anybody who thinks race has nothing to do with the formation of public policy is as selfish as they are deluded.]]>Mar 5th 2008 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://pubdb3.census.gov/macro/032007/pov/new01_000.htm
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"Think tank pins PMPs as possible culprit for increase in violent crime" isnt post worthy. Gotta Apple up that headline to pass muster.]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
I'd say that qualifies as a phenomenon unto itself.]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/

Uh, is that a come-on?]]>Mar 5th 2008 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://generallordisimo.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/global-warming.jpg]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/
...but i like the graph. ]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/now if I just had some cardboard....]]>Mar 5th 2008 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/05/think-tank-pins-apples-ipod-as-possible-culprit-for-increase-in/Mar 5th 2008 4:36PM