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Old 12-11-2008, 08:58 PM
 
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I think it should switch placed with New Orleans.
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Old 12-11-2008, 09:33 PM
 
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Everyone should realize that these are "2007" Crime Numbers and as such they are numbers that reflect when the Miami Dade Police Department was patrolling the streets and investigating the crimes. Miami Gardens now has their own Police Department and crime is down approximately 17 % year to date in 2008. Yes, there are still crime problems but things are getting a little better. Rome was not built in one day and I believe slowly but surely things will improve. It is a SMALL percentage of the population that commits the MAJORITY of the crime in the city. Stop with the racial overtones in your comments. It serves no real purpose.
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Old 01-17-2009, 05:25 PM
 
Location: Miami Gardens, Florida
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Everyone should realize that these are "2007" Crime Numbers and as such they are numbers that reflect when the Miami Dade Police Department was patrolling the streets and investigating the crimes. Miami Gardens now has their own Police Department and crime is down approximately 17 % year to date in 2008. Yes, there are still crime problems but things are getting a little better. Rome was not built in one day and I believe slowly but surely things will improve. It is a SMALL percentage of the population that commits the MAJORITY of the crime in the city. Stop with the racial overtones in your comments. It serves no real purpose.
Many posters with racist ideology hide behind the anymosity of the internet, throwing stones and hiding their hands. Anyway, you're absolutely right that crime has fallen tremendously since incorporation. Mayor Gibson and her administration are working hard, and that hard work is paying off.
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:19 AM
 
Location: ATL
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Why isnt DC on the list with close to 190 murders?
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Old 01-22-2009, 10:22 AM
 
Location: none of ur biznissss
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Why isnt DC on the list with close to 190 murders?
It's based per capita and D.C.'s population dilutes the crime which I'm assuming is concentrated in their bad areas. But still, I don't think the study is based on just murders alone seeing as the muder rate in Miami gardens as of 2006 was about 18 per 100,000
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Old 01-22-2009, 01:28 PM
 
Location: Miramar
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You can pretty much massage statistics of almsost any major US city to make the whole or parts look bad. I've been to eight of the twenty places on this list, and only three of them sent chills down my spine - and Miami Gardens wasn't one of them!
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Old 01-22-2009, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Jacksonville, FL (jax beach)
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Citizen477, I agree but I think you meant "anonymity" of the internet
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Old 01-23-2009, 07:33 AM
 
Location: Houston, Tx
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Hmm, I wonder what the 'common denominator' for all these wonderful cities might be...
Drugs, gangs (controlling the distribution of drugs) and bastards (literal definition of the word) being raised without fathers or other good male role-models being present.

Yeah, we all know jward001 was implying "black". Is he a racist? Maybe, maybe not. Never the less, I think his observation is correct that those areas have a lot of blacks. I won't draw a casual relationship but it would be equally stupid to deny the correlation between the racial makeup of these areas and the level of crime.
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Old 01-23-2009, 09:21 AM
 
Location: South FL
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jward001 is implying that they are mostly populated by blacks.
And you don't think it's true??!

my uncle lives in MG and he says the whole area of MG is populated by african americans.
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Old 01-23-2009, 04:52 PM
 
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84 % of Miami Gardens is "Black". The reality is that a very large percentage of the people who live there are good, decent, hard working people just trying to get by like every other race on this planet. There is a SMALL percentage of the population, mostly under the age of 30, that are committing most of the crimes. The city has done a great job since incorporating and things will only get better.
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