Is crime like in your community. Also send us a tweet or go to facebook. You can also email us. Phone lines are open. Start dialing in. What is crime like in your community . Take a look at some of the most common avenses in this country from offenders in federal prison. Us a take a look at federal offenders in prison. Federal offenders we want to get an idea of what crime is like in your community. U. S. A. Recently had this headline. So we turn to you this morning. Give us your thoughts. Thomas youre in an urban area. Whats crime like in your area . Caller most of the crime that makes the papers involves poor people getting shot. Poor people getting shot in poor neighborhoods and homeless people. Things like that. Drug crimes, typically dont make the paper. Its the crimes that just make you sick. Not that somebody getting robbed at 711 isnt a terrible thing but its poor people shooting each other essentially. Host is this smk that talk about your neighborhoods. Something that your local officials, state representatives are talking about . Do you believe theres enough focus on it . Caller local people dont want to discuss that sort of thing. The orlando area is the same thing. You dont want people coming to orlando to confront. Host how far away from orlando and the disney area . Caller were about maybe 4 miles from the center of downtown orlando. In orlando, about maybe 12 miles from disney. Host do you feel safe . Caller i feel safe. Host do you think this is something that should be on the radar screen of your local officials there . Caller i think so. I think theres a tremendous number of poor people that if theyre not living on the streets, some of them are being provided some housing. But the ones that dont make it are in double trouble in this area. Host what do you think about the role of the federal government here . Is there one . Caller i think theres a huge role to play. I think the federal government has shoved this on to the states to take particularly the lower end of the spectrum financially that gets involved and shoves them into their prison system. Host so what is the role of the federal government . Caller the federal government should get directly involved in providing programs that take the people who cant make it working, lets say day laborer for the minimum wage that still wind up sleeping in the woods. Take those sort of people get them into some sort of housing, some sort of stable environment. Of course, without some of the people they use alcohol and have drugs but not all of them. A substantial number just need a place to work, to find cover. And the lower waged jobs and that sort of work just doesnt provide it. Host the administration announced this past week that in order to break up these poorer cover. And communities and have children thrive better, one idea is housing subsidies. That you give people who receive housing subsidies in poor neighborhoods a higher subsidy, more money. If they will move to a housing subsidized housing in more affluent neighborhoods. What do you think about that . Caller i dont think that touches a large enough segment of the problem. I dont think providing a subsidy to the individual to pay for the housing is going to solve the problem. I think the federal government has to get involved more directly. I think the federal government has to actually get the housing and provide it to the people that are going to still work even if its just day labor and so that they have a cover over their heads, absolutely, and not provide a subsidy that wont cover them if theyre not married and without and so that children. Children certainly suffer. That makes the paper here every once in a while where someone has four children and living in a motel and substandard cover to begin with. And those children are never going to have an opportunity to build america into a country that provides High Tech Services to the world. So i think the federal government has to not just do the subsidy but just provide the housing directly. Host well leave it there and move on to douglas. Tell whause crime is like in your community. Caller crime in our area around, any time you turn the radio on or look at the paper, you see the pictures and eeggets the same gang around there now. And the ones that the head of the crime rate is the local people that the head of it like all this crooked work around here, the federal government give out contracts and water systems, the contractor will get a contract then will take part of the stuff to another town and not put it all in like here in this little town where im at. Host all right. Heres some of the most common offenses of those in prison in federal prison. U alfredo in florida. Caller one thing ive noticed is a rise in murders. Around my area. Violent firearm use, killing off a pair of adults. I dont know if you heard this news or not but leaving five children from the age of 1 through 11 without any parental guidance whatsoever. Also, in an area called south of st. Petersburg in pin lass county it seems like every other day theres a murder there. Is this a lack of firearm control . Has the local government lost control of the people . Or does the federal government need to stand in and do something . Host what do you think . Caller we nead help. Host in what way . Caller i dont know whether its drug related or not but we definitely need help. Host mickey in milwaukee. Caller it is so bad. I live in downtown milwaukee and just since july 3rd weve had 20 shootings. And on july 3, a 14yearold kid was shot. Last night another 14yearold leaving the Basketball Court was shot three times. I think out of the 20 homicides since july 3 alone and e 15 people have died. Host whats going on, do you think . Caller i was thinking about this last night. I live in an area where i hear the sirens i know if i turn on the news theyre going to say there was a shooting. I have never seen a city so segregated. I used to live in mns. There are pockets of this city where there are only black people living. And you go to the suburbs. This areas, and theres all white. And sometimes when im driving in the suburbs in like brookfield it never fails. If you see a black pesh in a car thats not really in well shape, you bet that car is going to get pulled over and its going to be a white Police Officer. The black people are scared to go into the white neighborhoods. Its so segregated and its all the crime is black on black. Host why is that do you think . Caller they are so impoverished. The level of poverty is very high in milwaukee. People dont have jobs. With all this talk about raising minimum wage and the economy is doing well and unemployment is down. I dont see it in this segregated area of milwaukee. I just see people in really bad shape. I dont even know why theyre killing these kids. I think they have to kill at least 20 people under the age of 18 sings the beginning of this year. The mayor is a really good mayor. I really i usually vote republican but im thinking of switching. I see Governor Walker as a very devicive governor. The sheriff who is a black sheriff he is republican pro gun control. He is on fox news every night. So its just a very devicive Political Leadership. Host so is it being discussed though in wisconsin the crime situation there . Do you find it in the newspaper every day . Caller it is every day. You turn on the news, theres no way you turn on the news at night and there isnt report of a homicide. A couple weeks ago they shot a Police Officer, a black person shot a Police Office anywhere a white neighborhood. Car jackings are so high. Two days ago there were three car jackings in one hour. And now theyre moving into the white neighborhoods and in broad daylight they go with a gun to a person and they take their car from them. The lovely of poverty is high. Host do you feel safe . Caller i travel to pakistan for business and i was thinking sometimes i feel safer in la hor than in milwaukee. Host daylight they go with a gun to a person and they take their car from them. The lovely of poverty is youre in the air. Go ahead. Caller we have too much crime down here. It provides drugs for the people. We have to stop this. Put body cameras on the officers. They run this place. If youre black, they stop you. Or they try to pin something on you to put you in jail. Now, they have made allegations against me and just like the guy in minnesota. He surrendered and they shot him. But reports like 911 calls are not in the record. Host all right. Heres some quick facts according to the u. S. Sentencing commission. About offenders in the federal prison. From january 2015. That gives you an idea about the characteristics of those in prisons. Were talking about crime in your community. Mark from New Hampshire. Whats it like . Kimplingtsdz caller the problem we have here is theres a lot of young kids you see the newspaper all the time between the ages of 1421 and theyre breaking into local houses in the area. A lot of times its one because theyre out of work, they have no job. Or two its a drug problem. Believe it or not in the state of the senator from, heroine is on the rise. People get into marijuana then cocaine. Its a really bad problem here with hirn and theres a lot of residents in New Hampshire they die each year due to overdose. Host whats going on there . You believe its from starting off with marijuana and move yourg way up . Caller i do. Because i have a younger son andrew and he watches disney film. There was an actor on there by the name of brad and he died in 2008 around the same time heath ledger died. And i remember seeing videos of him on you tube saying that he started with marijuana then ended up with cocaine and wanted a bigger high with herwin which ended up with him killed. A lot of times the newspaper and local television here some of these people they catch they move from one drug to another. Sad to say a lot of young people up here are dying of overdoses. Host what the Public Officials up there doing . Caller the governor has signed and the legislator up here, theyre trying to pass tougher drug laws. But i dont know. It doesnt seem to have much of an effect. Also, too, were not that far in southern New Hampshire were not that far away from boston or new york. And even like lowell and worcester, massachusetts. In some of those places drug dealers are coming up to southern like lowell and worcester, massachusetts. In some of those places drug dealers are coming up to southern New Hampshire to sell drugs and do business. Thats a real problem. I dont know. They have no direction on how they want to fight it. Host who is buying . Is it people that you wouldnt expect . We saw a headline in the paper the other day that more women and more middle class people are using herwin. Caller i had a friend last year and his daughter died at 33 years old. She was recovering addict. Its really funny because people always think that its only people in the big cities. But believe it or not theres nice middle class families in this area and their kids in their 20s and 30s the ones buying the drugs. I just dont get it because theyre in a middle class family. Theyre not bad off economically. But somehow one way or another theyre just into drugs. Host marvin in louisiana. Caller you just did a stat on the screen that showed crime element comes from is the drugs. The drugs are driving a lot of violence in the community. Im a former city councilman. Former of chicago. I moved back home 30something years ago. I did it to get away from that urban lifestyle. I got married and i had sons. I didnt want them to come up in that lifestyle. The drugs. Host what do you see . Caller were seeing all kinds of drugs. The murders. We just had a recent shooting. The lack of police. I remember president clinton was down here the 100,000 cops opt street program. A lot of these cops need to be recruited from the communities where the crimes are and its not done. Host what do you think local officials can do . Caller ive been raising concerns about our kids having something to do. Summer jobs Something Like that. In louisiana we have a do nothing governor who runs around wanting to be president. The monies that could be used to help louisiana he turned them down. Until we start putting, getting more involved in our kids and employment down. Until we start putting, getting more involved in our kids and employment and recreation and as long as these drugs are coming in, were going to have these problems. Host all right. Were going to keep you in your thoughts this morning on crime in your community. Whats it like for you . Do you feel safe . Whats the role of your local officials and your federal government in fighting crime . The phone lines will be on will be on your screen. Weve divided urban, suburban, rural this morning. This story in the front page of the Washington Post related to crime. Also this. That in the paper this morns on this issue of crime. Also, as many of you know, the Confederate Flag in South Carolina on the State Capitol grounds came down yesterday. Here ts denver post this morning with their story. The banishment of perhaps the most conspicuous of the old south frot the seat of the South Carolina government friday morning was the culmination of decades of racially charged political banishment of perhaps the most squirmishes. Were asking questions. The governor was there along with family of those that died in that Historic Black Church three weeks ago. They stood on the Capitol Steps as they watched the flag come down. Later the pole was taken down. If you want to see it go to our website and you can watch it there. Then this headline. A little background there on how that happened. Then also this. Were get yourg thoughts on crime in your community. Tony in arizona. Good morning to you. You are on the air. Caller thank you for cspan and to those listening around the world. It is important that we make a distinction when we talk about how and to tho we have people within our penitentiary system. That distinction starts, like in our community. We have a major drug problem now. We are 45 miles from the mexico border. Im in a city thats in a very large county that borders the country of mexico. In our city we have proactive Law Enforcement. They stay involved with the community. They understand that they are only part of the solution. The two key parts i want to talk about is incarceration versus imprisonment. Now, you are incarcerated when you commit a crime and you are made to resstute back to the state for your wrongdoing. You are imprisoned when your mind is to when you cant think for yourself. You are therefore imprisoned. And that gets back to dillon roof. His mind was imprisoned. You can be incarcerated in a jail in a prison. But you cant be imprisoned if your mind is free to think, this is only the physical hold of me. Not the mental control of me. Host all right. Tom in connecticut. Whats crime like . Caller not much. Stolen bicycles. Maybe. But you can go across and its a whole different story a whole different Socio Economic divide. Theres driveby shootings. And then theres the State Capitol and government. There are crimes there, too. Simple things like if someone gets an Economic Development grant based on lying on their application to the state. Or they get the loan and they take the loan for unstated use. Theres different kinds of crimes. You dont hear about people getting big jail sentences. Ive known hundreds of people who have smoked marijuana and none of them ever used heroin. These things are simply not related. And heroin, weve got to remember that weve seen time and time again u. S. Military personnel standing watching people in afghanistan growing the popies. We have the movie recently about contras fighting in nicaragua bringing heroin up the. Go to vietnam. The politics of hirn in southeast asia. The c. I. A. Was in the heroin business bringing heroin into the United States. My brother was in the air force. They told him to go into loose to fix the engine on in the on a helicopter that was loaded with heroin. So the United States government is deeply entrenched in this business. I think we have to look at that and try to solve things from the top. As far as Violent Crime goes our society is criminal in general. Its violent in general. We see it on tv, on the movies constantly. Violence is drummed into kids starting at age one. Host claire in philadelphia. Caller a lot of people dont realize, most of the city that is have the biggest crime all run by ds. And the city of philadelphia we havent had a republican in 650 years. They dont talk about it because they dont want to have people not coming in to visit. But we have different kinds of crime. I live in a nonsegregated. I live in south philadelphia. We have latinos, black asian, white. They come in, you hear about a white person being robbed or killed by a minority. You dont hear anything about it. If its the ops sit, its all over the news. Ive lived here all my life. I said no one talks about if you get the car robbed or your bicycle robbed or they try to break in your house. Its not even reported. As far as the police, they dont why would you want to arrest someone because youre afraid youre going to go to jail yourself . Its the opposite. Mostly every major city has a d. They dont care. They just want throw money into the mix and everything is going to be all right. It isnt. Host lee in memphis tennessee. Share what its like in your community. Caller its ridiculous here. Some little girl a week ago i think like 7 years old got killed by some gang member going after another guy. That done him wrong. So he shot her to get back at him. And then some other stuff. A lot of car jackings, a lot of robberies, a lot of murders. The same ole same ole. What do you think the role of the local community is . Sorry. They dont theyre not much they dont help. We should be banding together having some kind of Neighborhood Watch or something. Seeing any suspicious activity going on, call the police. Or even have be armed or something. Just to take care of ourselves. We dont have anybody here that want to help each other out. Host st. Louis, missouri. Go ahead. Caller hi. Whats crime like in your community . Caller i live in the north side of st.