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How is Boston so soft? They’ve had some years in the last 20 years with some low homicides counts in the 30’s? With there demographics of 150k blacks and 100k Hispanics and a supposedly tough gangsta white population the movies portray they should see over 100 a year but rarely even get half that.
If I was a gangsta or drug pusher I would set up shop in Boston it doesn’t seem like a hard place to take over.
Go ahead and try that. Police officer shot yesterday and suspect dead.
The Cleveland number may be missing a couple, but so far it seems to be doing better. We'll see if it holds up, though, because I've seen it before recently where the city enters June around 40 then the summer hits and all hell breaks loose and the end number finishes in the typical 130 range.
Same for Pittsburgh. Once the weather improves our few "hoods" start beefin', and the bodies pile up. It's so sad.
More active than NYC LA and a host of other large cities...it dipped into the thirties once in 1999 and once in 2014..
It's was in the 70s in 2005, 2006 and 2010.
Boston barely gets a homicide a week. There were like 202 non fatal shootings last year. That’s cities half Boston’s size murder total lol. Boston doesn’t get down hard let’s face it. Hartford is worse than Boston and that city is tiny
Even though it is a lot, those number are very encouraging. Keep it up Chicago and maybe we will stop calling it Chiraq
Dude, they were calling it Chiraq when the numbers were about what they are right now. Even when Chicago recorded the lowest number of homicides since the 1960s (I think that was 2014), people still called it that - even when other cities that were smaller had higher total homicides. So no, people just don't have any idea of what's what at the end of the day. They were calling it Chiraq when 15 other cities had worse rates.
The total for 2019 so far is the 5th lowest in the last 19 years, and the difference between 2nd lowest and 5th lowest is only 4 homicides. They were writing about "Chiraq" even when the city was at a 50 year low for homicides. It's not going to stop no matter what happens. The actual number (not rate) could dip below other cities and they'd still be writing the same stuff.
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Boston barely gets a homicide a week. There were like 202 non fatal shootings last year. That’s cities half Boston’s size murder total lol. Boston doesn’t get down hard let’s face it. Hartford is worse than Boston and that city is tiny
Hartford is one of the most dangerous cities in the country.... there are 10+ cities worst than Boaton for crime in MA and CT alone...but to say that it isn't active is just untrue. Again compare the crime rate to other large thriving cities...it is middle of the pack...but bad considering 90% of all violent crime in Boston takes place in 10/12 square miles in 3-4 neighborhoods, and how tight the gun laws are.
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