Books, including the best selling mans manson and also the road to jonestown. It was 30 years ago that the Branch Davidian compound near waco went up in flames after a 51 day armed standoff with atf, the fbi and texas state law enforcement. All of that with the world watching the fires spread through the building after the fbi launched six tear gas canisters into the compound. The blaze caused the death of 76 civilians, including 25 children, two pregnant women, and david koresh, who was the controversial leader of the group. The dramatic and tragic events from start to finish played out on americas tv sets, and in many ways that fire has never gone out. Today it continues to burn, inspiring antigovernment, activist and militias. And so we need to not have a clear understanding about what happened during that raid. Who were Branch Davidians . Who sees them as innocent victims that need to be avenged . And also remember this event as proof. They see this as proof that the federal govern
The book were talking is waco. David koresh, the Branch Davidians and the legacy of rage with author jeff quinn. Jeff quinn is the author of 25 books, including the best selling mans manson and also the road to jonestown. It was 30 years ago that the Branch Davidian compound near waco went up in flames after a 51 day armed standoff with atf, the fbi and texas state law enforcement. All of that with the world watching the fires spread through the building after the fbi launched six tear gas canisters into the compound. The blaze caused the death of 76 civilians, including 25 children, two pregnant women, and david koresh, who was the controversial leader of the group. The dramatic and tragic events from start to finish played out on americas tv sets, and in many ways that fire has never gone out. Today it continues to burn, inspiring antigovernment, activist and militias. And so we need to not have a clear understanding about what happened during that raid. Who were Branch Davidians . W
And his book rioting my wrong. Whats behind the trend and how long it might continue. He was interviewed by samuel, of the urban institute, on books t. V. Afterwards. That is hour. With high profiles, spikes in violence, in milwaukee, chewing, washington, dc, the question and the issue of Violent Crime has acquired a national interest, and, he has written a new book the rise and fall of Violent Crime. What inspired you to reinvestigate the issue of Violent Crime . No one had really, studied, in a comprehensive way, the history of Violent Crime and, i felt that that needed to be done especially because as we both know the violent kriem rates had skyrocketed in the late 60s, and became a major concern for the entire nation for the next several decades. Twoandahalf decades. So, i felt, given the significance of Violent Crime, and the postwar periods a major work that needed to be done. Now you do something really unique. Most people when they talk about Violent Crime they start in the 60s
Assault is the third one, and usually were interested in what most states calling a sated assault aggravated assault where you have serious bodily injury. And that would be the third. And robbery is the final one, although robbery is somewhat of a hybrid because theres a property motivation; that is, a theft motivation. And its a combination really of theft and violence. So some people might include other things, for instance, kidnapping or some might even include arson which could, obviously, cause death or injury. But criminologists, i guess, dont include kidnapping because theres so few instances of it and dont include arson because its mainly a property crime can with people destroying the property to, say, collect on insurance or something along those lines. System that developed in our history. Africanamericans in the south in part were influenced by whites in the south and develop the culture of violence in dealing with personal insult, personal disagreements, arguments and quar
For the entire nation for the next two and a half decades. I felt given the significance of Violent Crime in the postwar period a major work needed to be done. But there were reasons for it. Without in historical perspective, one just cant really fully grant that. So as you well know, many studies are what they call crosssectional views and they will study maybe eight years words of crime. These have great value. I am not knocking them. They are very significant. But they dont give you router did and that is why i wrote this book. Before we get into the story of crime in america, but set the stage for viewers. What is Violent Crime . What crimes are they talking about here . Criminologists define it as four different crimes. Murder, but of course i could be treated as the mans daughter as their are certain, what we call elements of the crime president or not present. So together we might refer to this as criminal homicide. And then, rape of course is a Violent Crime. Assault is the thi