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No surprises for me except for Delaware. What's up with that? Is Wilmington really ghetto? Does its crime rate influence the state's rate as a whole since the rest is rural?
What I'm most curious about is why a Frenchman is so obsessed with quoting American sources of "information" (which has to be put in quotation marks because you can play all sorts of underhanded games with statistics) to Americans. Do you know as much about France as you seem to care about the United States?
It’s an interesting report on state by state crime, however you could be safer in anyone of those states compared to being in a large number of bad crime ridden large cities. Wrong place at the wrong time is really the problem, and it’s unfair to think of New Mexico for example as worse then Detroit, Baltimore or other large cities with high crime rates.
[quote=Fred314X;14540451]What I'm most curious about is why a Frenchman is so obsessed with quoting American sources of "information" (which has to be put in quotation marks because you can play all sorts of underhanded games with statistics) to Americans. Do you know as much about France as you seem to care about the United States?[/quote]
It’s an interesting report on state by state crime, however you could be safer in anyone of those states compared to being in a large number of bad crime ridden large cities. Wrong place at the wrong time is really the problem, and it’s unfair to think of New Mexico for example as worse then Detroit, Baltimore or other large cities with high crime rates.
To be fair, the large cities you cite are not uniformly dangerous either (even though some may argue that some are uniformly run down). Crime rates are a very tricky statistic and IMO cannot be used in any way to assess "danger" at the state level.
Not very trustworthy, especially with the inclusion of Delaware, which is misleading considering the truly only crime-ridden area are parts of Wilmington.
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