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Thanks for the link....Yea Richmond is down for homicides from last year and has been trending downward for a long time....I definitely see an positive outlook for that city.
It also has about the most perfect location you can find.....It's far enough south to have a relatively mild winter, but is still far enough North to have driving access to DC, Philly, NYC etc....
The usual suspects like always: Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans. Surprisingly LA saw a drop in homicide rates and Detroit is not mentioned at all?
Crime in Chicago is very exaggerated because of OBAMA!!!!!!!....It has alot of overall crime (through mostly isolated in certain neighborhoods) but on a per capita basis it is average or even slightly below average compared to many other cities.
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Memphis, Detroit, St Louis, Cleveland, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee, Oakland, Miami, Atlanta, Birmingham etc etc all have worse per capita crime....Even Washington DC may have worse per capita crime, but DC has gotten much safer lately as well so I'm not sure....
NYC, LA, Boston, San Diego and Portland/Seattle are the only major cities that are clearly safer on a per capita basis than Chicago....All others are comparable or even worse...
Crime in Chicago is very exaggerated because of OBAMA!!!!!!!....It has alot of overall crime (through mostly isolated in certain neighborhoods) but on a per capita basis it is average or even slightly below average compared to many other cities.
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Memphis, Detroit, St Louis, Cleveland, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee, Oakland, Miami, Atlanta, Birmingham etc etc all have worse per capita crime....Even Washington DC may have worse per capita crime, but DC has gotten much safer lately as well so I'm not sure....
NYC, LA, Boston, San Diego and Portland/Seattle are the only major cities that are clearly safer on a per capita basis than Chicago....All others are comparable or even worse...
Do you know why? Because many of the cities on the list are very small municipalities. Chicago is 234 square miles. So, if these small cities incorporated 200 square miles of land around them, the homicide rate would be much lower. In other words, if the south side of Chicago was a city by itself, would it not be on the list?
For example, if Detroit incorporated another 100 square miles from affluent Oakland county, its homicide rate would be drastically reduced. But would that mean that Detroit is safe? Look at Harvey, IL as an example of what I am trying to say. The city is only 6 square miles and it is on the list.
So the fact that the south side of Chicago is part of Chicago, the number of homicides in that area become conflated with other districts of Chicago. When people talk about crime in Chicago, they are referring to the south side...not Lincoln Park. The south side of Chicago has an annual murder rate of 40 per 100,000 people.
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