Only 2 surprised me. First, New Haven, CT as I always thought CT, NH & RI were idyllic paces to live. Apparently not. The second was Little Rock. They have a "forcible rape" problem. But after I thought about it for a few minutes it started to make sense. It's probably brother on sister type of thing, because it IS Arkansas after all. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43158398/ns/business-us_business
A good friend went to Yale, and she said that there's a big difference b/w "campus" life and "city" life there. I originally thought it was a snooty, preppy area but I'm not surprised to see it on there.
That just seems so strange to me. I thought it was this upper class, preppy, type place. Now, I have lived in Memhpis for 4 years and if they had left that city off the list, it would have been by accident.
Man, if you go by those numbers more people were murdered in Detroit and Baltimore than all of the US deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2010.
That's because we don't have any treaties signed yet in those places. Lots of war lords and tribal violence.
you go the wrong neighborhood there and you are in trouble if you arent prepared, its a war zone, burnt out cars, crackheads on the corners, etc
The VP of our company is from Detroit and he says the same thing. I guess some areas are, literally, war torn countries in and of themselves. Maybe the US can give them power to secede from the US and be their own country.
There are a million reasons why, but the fact is murder rates by blacks are 7x higher than murder rates by whites. Bottom line is the less blacks living in your city, the less likely you are to be murdered. As for justice for the dead, it's a crap shoot at best. In America, 6,000 murders go unsolved every year! http://www.deseretnews.com/article/...rs-in-US-since-1980-remain-unsolved.html?pg=3 Every year in America, 6,000 killers get away with murder. The percentage of homicides that go unsolved in the U.S. has risen alarmingly, even as the homicide rate has fallen to levels last seen in the 1960s. Despite dramatic improvements in DNA analysis and other breakthroughs in forensic science, police fail to make an arrest in more than one-third of all homicides. National clearance rates for murder and manslaughter have fallen from about 90 percent in the 1960s to below 65 percent in recent years. This doesn't even count the "perfect" murders, those done by police and covered up, or other "suspiscious deaths".
I think we saw this to be true when the murder rate in Compton dropped as the mexicans were replacing teh black.
