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Interesting stuff. Louisiana needs to take a serious look at this and try some new approaches. The Virgin Islands, Bahams, Puerto Rico and Mexico all have some scary high numbers.
DC is really high too, but numbers are always higher in cities and of course DC is just a city, not a state, so that one is more understandable.
Interesting stuff. Louisiana needs to take a serious look at this and try some new approaches. The Virgin Islands, Bahams, Puerto Rico and Mexico all have some scary high numbers.
DC is really high too, but numbers are always higher in cities and of course DC is just a city, not a state, so that one is more understandable.
The Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are in an area where alot of drug trade have gone on.
Prohibition could be part of it. Jacksonville was a major gateway for smuggling rum from the Caribbean, and you could have had alot of murders that way. Another thing could be the severely strained racial tensions in Jacksonville. Lynching could have been part of it as well. It wasn't until 1926 when a White person was convicted of murdering a Black person for the very first time in Jacksonville,FL. Another thing could be the culture of violence that has existed in the Deep South. It has been present since before the Civil War. Look up "honor culture".
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Louisiana has historically had one of the highest murder rates in the USA, as well as other southern states, such as Mississippi, and Georgia. Texas is up there too.
Texas' murder rate is roughly the same as New York, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware, and West Virginia. It's rate is SURPASSED by Illinois, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Maryland, DC, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and California - among non Southern states.
Texas and Virginia have the lowest murder rates in the South, as well.
Texas' murder rate is roughly the same as New York, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware, and West Virginia. It's rate is SURPASSED by Illinois, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Maryland, DC, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, and California - among non Southern states.
Texas and Virginia have the lowest murder rates in the South, as well.
NOW it is to that point. Between 1968 and 1993, Texas had a murder rate ranging between 10-16 murders per 100,000. In 1980, Texas had a murder rate of 16.9 murders per 100,000. In 1981, Houston recorded over 700 murders, giving the city a murder rate of 44 murders per 100,000.
The Violent Policy Center's black murder rate rankings by state is misleading with it's method of taking the number of black murder victims adjusted to each states' black population only and here's a good example. Oklahoma's black murder rate was 5th and Louisiana's 9th in 2010 based on their method.In Oklahoma, black's were 36% of the state's murder total that led to a murder rate of 5.2 per 100k. In Louisiana, black's wre 65% of the state's murder total that led to murder rate of 11per 100k. So what state is a black person more likely to be murdered of the two states?
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