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New Brunswick one of the most peaceful? When I was there it seemed pretty ghetto.
It's a study of metro areas. The Edison-New Brunswick metro area covers all of Middlesex, Somerset, Monmouth, and Ocean counties (mostly anything but ghetto). The little bit of seediness in New Brunswick (a city of 50,000 people) is a drop in the bucket of the four county area (population 2,340,000)
The annual United States Peace Index finds the country overall more peaceful than at anytime in the past 20 years, with Maine finishing first as the "most peaceful" state and Louisiana placing last for the 11th year in a row.
In rankings by metropolitan area, the 2012 survey finds Cambridge-Newton-Framingham in Massachusetts as most peaceful and Detroit-Livionia-Dearborn in Michigan as least peaceful.
Not for nothing but there is some serious PC bs on this survey. Categories like Incarceration, Small Arms and Number of Police Employees (!) is very debatable. Some would argue that some or all of these help keep an area safe, especially police employees. However, I guess its still useful if you look past the PC stuff. United States Peace Index « Vision of Humanity
In my state of New York we do well in most of their categories but we are brought down by having "too many Police Employees". Having "too many police employees" is one reason that a big city like New York is as safe as it is! Particually these days since NYC is a big terrorist target.
^^ Having lots of police and a high incarceration rate might keep a place safe, and saftey's probably more important than peace, but if a place needs to incarcerate a lot of people and needs a lot of police, then it can't really be considered that peaceful.
I hate studies like this because they really weight their findings based on an agenda. And, to be honest with you, their formula is a head scratcher
For example, they consider gun ownership as one of the weighted factors, as well as incarceration and police. Alabama, for instance has a modest violent crime and murder rate but high numbers for incarceration, number of police, and gun ownership rate. So Alabama gets penalized for those factors despite the fact that violent crime is actually lower than many other supposedly more 'peaceful' states. Has it occurred to the Australian authors of this survey that when citizens have the right to defend themselves, when there are more police on the beat, and when hardened criminals are put behind bars, that it actually contributes to peace rather than detracts from it?
Yeah, I'd take drive-through daiquiri stands, no closing time for bars, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, and crawfish boils over "peacfulness" any day too...
I'm scared of the drive through daiquiri stands. Drunk driving is very likely.
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Maine ranked most peaceful state. Louisana last
Having "too many police employees" is one reason that a big city like New York is as safe as it is! Particually these days since NYC is a big terrorist target.
