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I used to see ONE person from there blather, but then he got banned.
Are you talking about this guy?
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Originally Posted by Broadrippleguy
For the 1000th and last time. come back at the end of the year then well compare and count homicide rates.
Cause if Chicago has a huge spike in homicides maybe I should rub it in your face just for comparison.............
Not to mention the high profile murders of a 6 month old baby and Pendleton.
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Originally Posted by Broadrippleguy
Nice to see Indy high on the list.
However after looking at Detroit I question why would you use a whole metro area and not give some stats for the city proper?
Cause we cant forget Core cities like Chicago/Detroit/St Louis are very unsafe and plagued by crime.
I was going to say, weather certainly influences, but it's not a total correlation. During "Chiberia" we had two murders, yet nothing during the multiple days after that over a weekend that had the highest temps in more than a month. We went about a week now without a murder here until last night. February has seen 13, in a month that has easily gotten to 20-30 and beyond for murders.
It's always weird when people pop up and say comments like that....it's like they're rooting for more murders and just trying to "calm everyone down" and not to worry about the current low numbers.
Right... I'm rooting for more murders thanks for dropping by
Its great that Chicago is having some success with lowering its homicide rate, and its truly unfortunate that Indianapolis is struggling. The Chicago haters will probably blame the crime rise on ex-Chicagoans who have brought their wicked ways to Indianapolis, and perhaps there is some partial truth to this as we all know the Illinois-Indiana border is quite porous. That being said, its also true that while Indianapolis as a whole as grown in population, the core neighborhoods of the city are still rapidly hollowing out likely resulting in degentrification and worsening crime. It seems they haven't hit the inflection point that NYC, SF, and (hopefully) Chicago have reached.
Whether this lag is due to bad city or state policy, insufficient influx of "creative class" types, or too many bad guys from Chicago moving in, I don't know. I'd be interested to see what Aaron Renn thinks about the situation.
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