[BBMW]

Much has been made of the spike in crime in Vegas. However, looking at murder statistics for major cities across the US, the increase in Vegas is only middle of the pack, and slightly less than average. So what Vegas is seeing is more a national trend than a local phenomenon.

Major City Murders Rising by One-Third From 2014 to 2016, Admits Left-Wing Legal Group - Breitbart

[unf0rgiven6262]

Vegas has never struck me as being especially high in murders. It's the excessive amount of petty crimes and other types of less severe stuff like auto theft that the city has topped the charts on before.

[lvmensch]

Originally Posted by unf0rgiven6262

Vegas has never struck me as being especially high in murders. It's the excessive amount of petty crimes and other types of less severe stuff like auto theft that the city has topped the charts on before.

Nope. Not in recent years. Does better on property crimes than on violent crimes. There was a problem with stolen cars ten years ago but not in recent years.

Virtually all categories of crime rates for some years have been in the middle third. If you correct for the tourist population they get close to the average.

[EA]

We can be better than this. I am disappointed in our citizens. Middle of the pack? Is that where we belong?
No. Of course not. We're leaders and trailblazers.
Let's join the moron out in Centennial Hills, adorn ourselves with guns, and get our murder rate to the top of the pile!!

[NLVgal]

It's not 2015 vs 2016 that sucks. ( although that sucks, too. ) Look at the murder rate vs. 2013.

Also, they need to update their charts. Some guy got blasted at Starbucks yesterday, there was a double homicide of a married couple last week, etc. Somebody also shot his ex and her boyfriend at the airport last week, or two weeks ago. Oh, don't forget the guy that took out his wife and children last month ( maybe two months ) after she was denied a restraining order because her petition lacked merit.

This town has never been this violent. I don't know what's going on. Our population has not risen much since the recession, but the violence has. Exponentially. I blame it on an influx of California's worst, and the sheriff has echoed my comments in a PC sort of way. Here's a link from April about the murder rate being up 100%
http://news3lv.com/news/local/homici...-2015-and-2016


The tourists are fine though. Our tourist corridors are some of the safest places you can be. I don't think there is any other city in America where you can get utterly smashed drunk and walk down the street with little worry about crime. The strip and Fremont are well patrolled, the cops and casino security cooperate, and there are always people around.

[SoHoVe]

To me the biggest difference in the murders these days are that we are now seeing just absolutely senseless murders in addition to drug/domestic/gang related stuff...

Burger King

Starbucks

Ect

[LasVegasPlayer]

It seems like Chicago is a good chunk of that increase but I'm too lazy to do the math and figure out how much. I wonder what using metro areas would do to these numbers. I can see why they did not as that info is probably too difficult to compile for this purpose but this leaves out cities with a history of high violent crime rates like Atlanta, Miami, Kansas City and St. Louis. It would also add several cities into the San Francisco numbers.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by EA

No. Of course not. We're leaders and trailblazers.

Trailblazers, I agree!

We led the country by putting in the first light rail system, we were the first to legalize recreational marijuana, the first to institute physician's assisted suicide, the first to raise the speed limit on our Interstates to 80MPH, the first to get a Platinum Award for Bike Friendliness, and what did I miss?

Desert Tortoises are trailblazers, too! But done at a much, much slower pace!

It will always surprise me that during our painful, never-ending Great Recession we went through, with all that depression, despair, hopelessness, the murder and crime rate didn't go through the roof at that time!

Economy recovers, and the crime rates goes up! What a puzzlement!

[Tek_Freek]

Media doesn't help. Every time I turn on the news here, or see a commercial for it, it's murder, murder, murder, shootings, accidents, mayhem of all sorts. When there is a nutcase shooting up a school they turn the shooter into a hero to all the rest of them by immersing the entire country in information about them. This instead of completely ignoring them and concentrating on the victims and the grief of their families and friends.

The media in this country are a bunch of slimy bottom feeders.

[NLVgal]

Originally Posted by Tek_Freek

Media doesn't help. Every time I turn on the news here, or see a commercial for it, it's murder, murder, murder, shootings, accidents, mayhem of all sorts. When there is a nutcase shooting up a school they turn the shooter into a hero to all the rest of them by immersing the entire country in information about them. This instead of completely ignoring them and concentrating on the victims and the grief of their families and friends.

The media in this country are a bunch of slimy bottom feeders.

Amen to that. The author of The Gift of Fear, Gavin De Becker, says pretty much the same thing. Don't glorify these a-holes. Show them chained to a radiator in their underpants.