Gezzz, that makes even the worst ghettos in LA or anywhere on the west coast look like Beverley Hills. No joke.
Posted on 03/08/2018 11:33:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I agree. See my response #19.
Here are the damning excerpts:
About six months ago, they decided to put a hunch to the test. Janikowski merged his computer map of crime patterns with Betts’s map of Section8 rentals. Where Janikowski saw a bunny rabbit, Betts saw a sideways horseshoe (“He has a better imagination,” she said). Otherwise, the match was near-perfect. On the merged map, dense violent-crime areas are shaded dark blue, and Section8 addresses are represented by little red dots. All of the dark-blue areas are covered in little red dots, like bursts of gunfire. The rest of the city has almost no dots.
Betts remembers her discomfort as she looked at the map. The couple had been musing about the connection for months, but they were amazed—and deflated—to see how perfectly the two data sets fit together. She knew right away that this would be a “hard thing to say or write.” Nobody in the antipoverty community and nobody in city leadership was going to welcome the news that the noble experiment that they’d been engaged in for the past decade had been bringing the city down, in ways they’d never expected. But the connection was too obvious to ignore, and Betts and Janikowski figured that the same thing must be happening all around the country. Eventually, they thought, they’d find other researchers who connected the dots the way they had, and then maybe they could get city leaders, and even national leaders, to listen.
You are right, Total BS
Myrtle Beach South Carolina is #13, worse than DC, Flint, Chicago.
Maybe it was during Black Bike week, but they don’t even have those anymore.
Whomever ranked these cities was obviously smoking crack
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics...
Take your pick.
Eureka is safe, safe, safe too. Right now they are in the process of installing kiosks all around to dispose of your needles.
As Dennis Prager has often noted it is values that determines behavior — not economics (as communism teaches) or race (as naziism teaches) — the two greatest horrors of the 20th century.
Sure, you can get city leaders to listen. But doing something about it is wildly unlikely.
So true. However, as long as these areas vote 90% Democrat, nothing will ever change. Their lives may be worthless but their electoral rolls are gold to politicians.
Looks like british row houses.
All of the Michigan cities seem about right. The usual east-side cities like Detroit, Flint, and Saginaw. Also, Kalamazoo and Battle Creek have seen an uptick in crime, but I didn’t know it was that bad.
CC
Zero desire to go to Myrtle Beach.
It started decaying decades back.
K’zoo and Battle Creek were having problems when I lived in Michigan 25 years ago.
People don’t realize how many problems they are having down South now. Jackson, Mississippi has elected a city government that is worthy of Zimbabwe.
I live in a small town. Zero violent crime.
Worst thing that happened to me was vandalism is to my car windows.
There are worse places to live.
Chicago is #55?
HA!
Gezzz, that makes even the worst ghettos in LA or anywhere on the west coast look like Beverley Hills. No joke.
Camden should rent itself out as a movie set for sci-fi films about a post-apocalyptic future.
Not in the case of #80... Mexican. It’s my home town. Left in 1987 and have only been back a handful of times since. It’s horrible. All my family left too.
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