I live on an interesting block

[SpencerH]

Here's a thought....................get out now!




Actually, given some of your political views, you need to hang around there and take in the ambiance some more


I thought you lived in Mount Royal ?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
stats lie: Baltimore has one of the best emergency trauma centers in the US. So what would be a murder in DC or Detroit is turned into "aggravated assault" by the hardworking, devoted doctors.

We're number 1! We're number 1!

[Combat Ingrid]

Canada

[Shi Huangdi]

I took the figures from http://www.safestreetsdc.com/ which google gave me.

[DanS]

This has been a really bad year for murders in DC. It seems like there's lots more dealing (the panhandlers are more aggressive and abusive than normal) and there seems to be a lot of street gang turf wars.

[SpencerH]

I think we had a murder last year (latino) so that would put us at 0.5/100000.

[DanielXY]

Any reason why Washington is so much worse than LA?

[Dis]

I purposely picked a quiet neighborhood with old people when I moved in. Old people are quite so I can always get my bueaty sleep

I do worry about who will move in when the old people die off though. My neighborhood is getting worse and worse. As most neighborhoods on the east side of Las Vegas. Actually many neighborhoods in my city are getting worse and worse. I figure in 20 to 25 years I'll move outside the city and semi-retire.

[Solly]

CHiacgo looks pretty rough..

[Timexwatch]

Originally posted by DanS
This has been a really bad year for murders in DC. It seems like there's lots more dealing (the panhandlers are more aggressive and abusive than normal) and there seems to be a lot of street gang turf wars.

There's a lot of violence in NE and SE and a good amount of petty street crime in NW, but somehow Metro PD can get a million dollars to combat underage drinking around all the local universities. Defining deviancy up, indeed....

[Timexwatch]

Originally posted by DanielXY
Any reason why Washington is so much worse than LA?

Lots of poor minorities, homeless and epidemic drug use that stimulates gang activity.

I don't know the exact breakdown, but N.W. D.C.'s violent crime rate is a bit lower than S.E. and N.E. D.C.

[Solly]

Why does being poor or being a minority give an excuse for committing crime?

[KrazyHorse]

That's funny. I don't seem to recall him saying it was an excuse.

[Japher]

Oh, oh Timex... hope you can take a lickin' and keep on...

[KrazyHorse]

I'm refraining, on the assumption that he's not claiming an innate correlation between race and violence.