The most dangerous cities in America, 2013 (Flint #1)

Yahoo/24-7wallst.com ^ | 6-18-2013 | Samuel Weigley, Alexander E. M. Hess and Michael B. Sauter

[Dick Bachert]

The citizens in 23 states honor the Second Amendment and have either open or concealed carry.

80% of the violent crimes occur in the other 27.

If there’s a message there, obama and biden missed it.

Or did they??

[BwanaNdege]

“Makes me wonder where Chicago, IL, Milwaukee, WI, and Houston, TX are? It must be something about the way crime stats are reported.”

Some statistics count the whole metro area, others just the city limits.

Atlanta’s population within the city limits has ranged between 400K and 500K since as far back as 1960.

Include the inner suburbs and that number has risen from 800K to 1.5M since 1960.

Add the “Urbanized area (area of continuous development” and that has increase from an additional 330K to 2.6M, giving a total of over 4 Million.

Crimes per 100K, based on City Limits, are horrendous. If you switch to the “Urbanized Area”, the rate drops considerably.

Guess which one the City Fathers want to use?

http://www.demographia.com/db-atl1960.htm

[ScottinVA]

Congrats to Flint and Detroit! Isn’t progressive municipal governance great?

[cripplecreek]

Bad as they are, I can't help but wonder how the stats break down in Detroit and Flint in regards to justified shootings. Both are open carry cities and its hard to get a true breakdown. I know Detroit has a justifiable homicide rate some 2200% higher than the national average. Think about it, a Boston Bomber is being listed as a shooting victim.



Michigan legislative action thread

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks cripplecreek, and good points.

[cripplecreek]

Turns out that Bloomberg’s group has named several murderers killed by police as victims of gun violence.