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Detroit Declared Most Dangerous US City
Associated Press (via My Way) ^ | Nov 18, 2007 | DAVID N. GOODMAN

Posted on 11/18/2007 2:25:38 PM PST by Mr. Mojo

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To: Lazarus Longer

Arabs.


61 posted on 11/18/2007 5:50:53 PM PST by gedeon3
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To: Lazarus Longer
I assume another city run by Demoncrats for YEARS?

Perhaps the entire state also run by DEMONCRATS?

62 posted on 11/18/2007 5:51:44 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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Why is this a news story? This has been common knowledge for years.
63 posted on 11/18/2007 5:53:35 PM PST by Godwin1
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To: South40

The good news is that 919,000 people in Detroit aren’t murdered every day. The bad news is 5-6 of them are.


64 posted on 11/18/2007 6:00:42 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Cable225

You’re not alowed to say ‘black hole’ any more.


65 posted on 11/18/2007 6:03:03 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: RightWhale

My one and only visit was to Detroit for a convention at Cobo Hall some 40 years ago. Was from KC then. Boss told me to NEVER go out on the street alone, as did my taxi driver - day or night. Remember being frightened out of my wits the entire time I was there.


66 posted on 11/18/2007 6:03:33 PM PST by Grams A
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To: Grams A

Forty years ago was 1967, the year of the riot.


67 posted on 11/18/2007 6:12:15 PM PST by stayathomemom
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To: OBXWanderer

That actually surprises me. Sugarland used to be nice, but with a certain amount of minority ute violence that made it not a place you wanted to leave your garage door open at night. I could see Katy being number 4, but Sugarland surprises me a little.

Not that much though, it’s a nice place from what I’ve heard and seen. I guess I’m only about 6-7 miles from there and it’s pretty diverse where I’m at. Too bad diversity always seems to equal violent crime.


68 posted on 11/18/2007 6:13:07 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: ichabod1
The good news is most are democRATs.

I'd hate to think those who are trying with their votes to clean up that mess are becoming the victims of it.

69 posted on 11/18/2007 6:13:37 PM PST by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: Grams A

I visited there in 1997. The friend I went to see said she just doesn’t go out at night, that’s all.


70 posted on 11/18/2007 6:14:08 PM PST by ichabod1 ("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
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To: Lazarus Longer

So, are they saying Detroit isn’t the most dangerous? Or are they saying “don’t talk about crime, it scares the good taxpayers”?


71 posted on 11/18/2007 6:44:42 PM PST by Professional
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To: BufordP

That list is unfair and biased. The cities that have the least crime, are typically white/blue collar whites, that have become wealthy on the backs of undocumented workers and other minorities.


72 posted on 11/18/2007 6:50:20 PM PST by Professional
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To: mowowie

Oh my, houses on sale for a dollar? But you’d have to live in Detroit though.


73 posted on 11/18/2007 8:14:34 PM PST by boop (Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
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To: majormaturity

I’d wager that if you removed the Muslims from Detroit the per capita crime rate would go up.


74 posted on 11/18/2007 8:24:30 PM PST by festus (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: goldstategop

Once against, Rush Limbaugh is on the cutting edge of societal evolution with a prescient observation.


75 posted on 11/18/2007 8:31:54 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: VOA

Man that was a depressing slide show.

Looks like Detroit was quite the place 50 years ago.


76 posted on 11/18/2007 8:46:40 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: Lazarus Longer
Your list is quite messed up. Here are the official Michigan results:

as you can see, Bush actually carried Montmorency and many of the other counties listed. Even wayne (Detroit area) was about 70% for kerry, not 90+. Some of the stats for counties in other states seem plausible, but the author of your list obviously pushed some wrong buttons in computing michigan. TOTAL Bush Kerry
CODE/NAME COUNTY REP DEM
01 ALCONA 6,531 3,592 2,871
02 ALGER 4,765 2,318 2,395
-snip- 25 GENESEE 213,775 83,870 128,334
26 GLADWIN 13,227 6,770 6,343
47 LIVINGSTON 93,742 58,860 33,991
52 MARQUETTE 32,488 14,690 17,412
58 MONROE 74,132 37,470 36,089
60 MONTMORENCY 5,563 3,300 2,196
68 OSCODA 4,409 2,570 1,792
69 OTSEGO 12,307 7,470 4,674
74 ST. CLAIR 79,743 42,740 36,174
75 ST. JOSEPH 25,239 15,340 9,648
82 WAYNE 864,728 257,750 600,047
Totals 4,839,252 2,313,746 2,479,183

77 posted on 11/19/2007 6:41:44 AM PST by BohDaThone
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To: 4yearlurker
Any truth spoken about this matter and you will be labeled a right wing racist!!

You don't have to talk to lefties to get called a racist. You can do it right here. Just point out the obvious.

Unless folks get over all of that fear of being called racist, they will never make progress here. I fear they won't anyhow. It's just a natural cultural evolution. Subculture is gonna win out one way or another. Detroit is but one sore amongst many.

Young people have no clue how far we have already fallen.

78 posted on 11/19/2007 6:48:31 AM PST by wardaddy (This country is being destroyed by folks who could have never created it.)
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To: Lazarus Longer
I almost spit my coffee on my keyboard when I read Sugarland Texas with the safest cities. They might want to re check that area if these stats are not fresh. Sugarland lays right up against Houston and that far southwest part of Houston is where a lot of the New Orleans refugees were deposited. I know the murder rate and crime in general has soared in that area and I don’t see how Sugarland could escape.
79 posted on 11/19/2007 6:49:11 AM PST by Ditter
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To: RightWhale

Well, I guess that one exception makes the rule eh?

btw, Fairbanks is about 40% minorities descended with a large transient population in a town of 30,000 (epodunk)....I bet the main criminal there is long winter alcohol

and the “service” trades.....like Phenix City Alabama used to be


80 posted on 11/19/2007 6:56:45 AM PST by wardaddy (This country is being destroyed by folks who could have never created it.)
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