Posted on 08/28/2017 2:26:54 PM PDT by freedumb2003
Given that 2016 was the worst year for homicides in nearly two decades in Chicago, it comes as little surprise that the city has a reputation as one of the most violent places in the United States. Last year, there were 762 murders, 3,550 shooting incidents and 4,331 shooting victims with an average of 12 people shot every single day. In fact, the Windy City experienced more murders than New York and Los Angeles combined last year with the number of homicides there since 2001 eclipsing U.S. war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan by late November.
Even though it had more murders than any other U.S. city last year, is Chicago's violent reputation entirely justified? According to nonprofit news outlet The Trace, Chicago is actually far behind other major U.S. cities in homicides per 100,000 residents. It found that between 2010 and 2015, New Orleans had a homicide rate of 46.9 per 100,000 inhabitants compared to just 16.4 in Chicago. As bad a problem as Chicago has on its hands, this metric does show that many other cities actually have higher levels of violence.
Yeah...here you! We continue to look at the Idaho Panhandle. People are a LOT more simpatico to us.
White greed is the takeaway I got
I guess I’m just spoiled by the low crime here.
I don’t get it either but I listen to a station in Tulsa when I wake up, KRMG. I have done that for almost 50 years. They have the big three things you need to know and most mornings it includes some murder or at least violent crime.
Seems like it is always Peoria Street somewhere. Parts of Riverside used to be really bad.
I’m not sure the no-go areas of Tulsa anymore.
I’m 90 miles away, even lived just south of Tulsa. I’m not bothered by the 1921 riots at all let alone haunted by them.
The riot was wrong though and a series of bad decisions and blunders.
They've got a great PR team. ;-)
Section 8 housing which moved north Tulsa residents to South Tulsa. South Peoria used to be real safe, now you take your chances when you go there.
East Tulsa used to be fairly safe, then it began to go real seedy around Admiral and Mingo. Can you say Illegal aliens?
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Methamphetamine. Central Valley is essentially destroyed.
Midtown to Harlem from York to 3rd Avenue is also very safe. Have never felt unsafe at any time of day or night in Yorkville, Sutton Place, or Lenox Hill.
Stockton has two major freeways and a split off freeway going to San Francisco where a lot of trucking is routed throughout the West Coast, a major railway yard for more freight handling, and an inland sea port. Now add in at least five major gangs, drug trans-shipment along those same corridors, stir, add an economy that had Stockton and Detroit seesawing for the right to the "Foreclosure Capital of the US" titile for over five years, and you might gain some insight as to how Stockton wound up on that list, and, in fact, once lead it.
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