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Every year is the same, people disagree. It's rather mundane by now.
It's just a bit disrespectful to anyone who lost someone they care about to violence or people who live in a place where violent crime is a serious problem to come in this thread and imply that their issues are exaggerated while their is statistical evidence to the contrary.
BTW Jackson, MS is a small city. It has a metro population of 576,382 putting it below Provo-Orem, UT MSA and Melbourne FL MSA in terms of population
Yes, there's less homicides usually committed in cities when it's colder out, but it's not as simple as that. The amount of homicides in Chicago has been decreasing steadily since the last few months of 2017. This isn't some major reduction that all of a sudden happened. It's been in steady decline and isn't because of the weather.
Yeah, I think people forget we had -50 winchills.
It was in the teens and lower for weeks at a time. No one is out chillin.
Last year in January/ February we had 60 degree days.
I think every year people say it’s the coldest winter ever. That really cold round of weather lasted THREE days before and after which it was above normal. There have been multiple spells of 50s in both January and February this year and the longest we went with highs in the teens and lower (drumroll please).....four days. Not trying to compare that to the crime rate, just pointing out this winter has been very “average†except for the much publicized polor vortex which was three days long followed by temps in the 50s right after.
It's just a bit disrespectful to anyone who lost someone they care about to violence or people who live in a place where violent crime is a serious problem to come in this thread and imply that their issues are exaggerated while their is statistical evidence to the contrary.
BTW Jackson, MS is a small city. It has a metro population of 576,382 putting it below Provo-Orem, UT MSA and Melbourne FL MSA in terms of population
Yes and I'm one of those people who have lost 2 relatives to personal/domestic violence in 1 year. It's been stated many times that the largest share of those violence stats happens in the same specific areas of any large city. Additionally, it's predominantly individuals that know each that have problems or criminal ties within their network. So even the highest per capita listed cities still aren't that overly " dangerous ".
A small city would be a micropolitan area with a core between 10K to 50K. Yet it's metro position is above 288 other metros, that's sure is small man.
You can click on my link I've provided from the City of Los Angeles and check for yourself. A bit more official than the LA Times
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