Colorado Police Link Rise in Violence to Music

Colorado Police Link Rise in Violence to Music

In my opinion the title should be “Colorado Police Claim Rise in Violence Linked to Music”, but the article is still intriguing. From my experiences with Colorado it’s an interesting mix of suburbanites, college students and mountain men (not a Brokeback Mountain reference), but that could just be Boulder. Apparently there’s also a growing Latino population which you wouldn’t expect when you think of Colorado. The Police should look to the sheer increase in population as the reason for the rise in the number of murders (also interesting is that they’re not looking at murder rates, but the total number of murders). But, to claim an increase in crime is a side-effect of growth doesn’t sit as well with the public as a simple scapegoat like Hip-hop. B. Serious pretty much summed up my opinion on the matter:

“When two cowboys got into an argument at a saloon, went outside and had a draw, nobody blamed the music that was playing at the saloon,” said a local rapper known as B. Serious, who performed at the event.

EDIT: Check out the MySpace page of B. Serious.