Be Careful: Scary Situation and Break-ins in "Upscale" Bowie (Bethesda: car insurance, schools)

[bowian]

Originally Posted by live_strong28

What is the correlation between SEDC and PG Cty, both areas of high black population also areas of the highest crime rates? How do you interpret that statistic?

Let's hear your correlation, Einstein.

[live_strong28]

Originally Posted by cpterp

Actually DC dominates, "hands down." In College Park, which is inside the Beltway, they haven't had a murder in virtually forever. I really think you need to let go of this obsession with PGC. Judging from the racial slant in your post on this page, it looks like you have some deepseated racial prejudice. If that's the case, I suggest you find help.

So which areas have the most crime and what are the demographics in those areas?

[live_strong28]

Originally Posted by Alanboy395

Well in the four years I've lived in my area of "upscale" Alexandria there have been 4 murders and several car break-ins. Northern VA isnt all perfect.

Have you nothing better to do than do bash PG County? I'm not in love with PG but it has some good qualities along with its bad like everywhere else.

Hmmm, do the math...4 years, 4 murders....that's 1 murder a year.

Someone reported that in Bowie alone, there were 25 murders last year.

[live_strong28]

Originally Posted by bowian

Let's hear your correlation, Einstein.

You figure it out...you're living it in your county.

[Boompa]

You want they should steal from the poor?

[dkf747]

Originally Posted by live_strong28

So the murders being inside the beltway is ok? PG is PG, and that means the entire PG Cty has more murders and more crime than any other Maryland or Virginia County in the WMA!

If Bowie was safe, why did Bowie need to get its own police force? Why tax the residents double when the residents are already paying for county police force?

1. Nobody disputes that PG has more crime. Even Iscalder would not dispute that. It is not the whole PG county that has the big crime problems though.

2. Does having a police force make an area unsafe? There are local police agencies in FFX county too, you know. Maybe Bowie residents weren't satisfiied wth the way PGC Police were patrolling Bowie, so they exercised their right to create their own force. When did that become wrong?

[PGC301]

Originally Posted by live_strong28

Hmmm, do the math...4 years, 4 murders....that's 1 murder a year.

Someone reported that in Bowie alone, there were 25 murders last year.

Whoever reported that is way off. Bowie averages 1-2 murders per year. For a city of almost 60,000 people, that isn't very high.

[live_strong28]

Originally Posted by dkf747

1. Nobody disputes that PG has more crime. Even Iscalder would not dispute that. It is not the whole PG county that has the big crime problems though.

2. Does having a police force make an area unsafe? There are local police agencies in FFX county too, you know. Maybe Bowie residents weren't satisfiied wth the way PGC Police were patrolling Bowie, so they exercised their right to create their own force. When did that become wrong?

1. The only thing that person admits too is that things couldn't be better in Bowie....everything is on the uppity up, the schools are great, elected leadership is great, don't see no crime, everybody's rich, shopping is abundant, taxes are reasonable, etc. Pipe dream.

2. Hmm, never heard of a Potomac Police Dept, or a McLean Police Dept., or a Bethesda Police Dept., or a Great Falls Police Dept. or a Chevy Chase Police Dept. or a Vienna Police Dept.

Why would PG residents want to pay more taxes than they need to already?

Don't contradict yourself. If Bowie residents felt safe, they wouldn't need to pay taxes for more police help.

[CHICAGOLAND92]

Originally Posted by live_strong28

You figure it out...you're living it in your county.

What, do you want to say black people equate to crime? Don't beat around the bush.

You're already sitting behind a computer, being more annoying than anyone I've ever seen on City-Data, posting EVERY bad thing in PGC that happens.

Seriously, get a life. No place is perfect. And don't come back with the "Well if people wouldn't say PGC has no problems blah blah blah." It's annoying. I'm sure people in PGC know there's problems, as does the rest of the metropolitan area. The difference from them and you is that they don't muse over EVERY problem. They keep moving, instead of being stuck on the negatives all the time.

People on here who can actually think know that crime happens here. It may happen here more than anywhere else in the WMA. But you know what? There are safe areas as well.

Now will you go away?

[live_strong28]

Originally Posted by CHICAGOLAND92

What, do you want to say black people equate to crime? Don't beat around the bush.

You're already sitting behind a computer, being more annoying than anyone I've ever seen on City-Data, posting EVERY bad thing in PGC that happens.

Seriously, get a life. No place is perfect. And don't come back with the "Well if people wouldn't say PGC has no problems blah blah blah." It's annoying. I'm sure people in PGC know there's problems, as does the rest of the metropolitan area. The difference from them and you is that they don't muse over EVERY problem. They keep moving, instead of being stuck on the negatives all the time.

People on here who can actually think know that crime happens here. It may happen here more than anywhere else in the WMA. But you know what? There are safe areas as well.

Now will you go away?

Turn around and see if there's a gun pointed at your head.

If not, then nobody's asking you to read any of this.

Now will you go away?