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The 20 Safest Cities In America
Business Insider ^ | 07/25/2013 | AMELIA ACOSTA AND ANMARGARET WARNER

Posted on 07/25/2013 10:53:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: dfwgator
Certainly not in the area of Rosa's Cantina.

Marty Robbins fan? I love that song.

41 posted on 07/25/2013 12:49:10 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: dfwgator
El Paso a safe city?
Certainly not in the area of Rosa's Cantina.


42 posted on 07/25/2013 12:51:12 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Jeff Chandler

Fontana and Oxnard are among the safest cities in America? If so, why aren’t Compton, Calif. and East St. Louis, Ill. on the list?


43 posted on 07/25/2013 12:56:54 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SeekAndFind
"different crime reporting policies among states"

ding...ding..ding...we have a winner...

we all have read how in Florida, there was a law or policy called the "Baker" act, that allowed HS principals to NOT report crime in the HS, particularly crime committed by blacks, and instead have in school punishment...

this is why T.Martin is dead...he was caught with weed, stolen jewelry, and was abusive IIRC and yet he had NO police record...so instead of being in juvie serving his time, he is dead...because he was suspended at the time, not in school, and not in jail...

I think other states treat crime stats differently too....there is a wide leniency given black or other minority yutes and thus not counted in the crime stats....JMHO....

44 posted on 07/25/2013 1:01:54 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Responsibility2nd
According to FBI stats, Violent Crime in America is significantly DOWN.

America is actually much safer than it used to be in the 1980s and early '90s.

Last year, the number of murders in America was at its lowest in four decades — having dropped 44% since its peak in 1991.  The drop in homicides is even more obvious when you look at individual cities that once had bad reputations.

New York recorded 2,245 homicides at its peak in 1990 but only 414 homicides by 2012. Los Angeles had 2,589 homicides in 1992 but only 298 homicides last year.

Washington, D.C., a much smaller city, saw its murder number decline from a peak of 443 homicides in 1992 to only 88 homicides last year.

Overall, violent crimes including homicide, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery dropped 38% between 1992 and 2011.  While the overall violent crime rate in America went up by 1.2% in 2012, that uptick was the first rise in crime since 2006.

The dramatic plunge in violent crime shocked many experts, who predicted America would just get more violent.

45 posted on 07/25/2013 1:02:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

just visited El Paso once, it is very poor, but I’ll have to say the people are very nice...just saying...


46 posted on 07/25/2013 1:02:36 PM PDT by cherry
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry; those will be the FIRST to be investigated for “Diversity Density”, and the neighborhoods will be injected with the inner-city tribal parasites in Section 8 housing, and the crime stats will reflect the unstoppable outcome.....


47 posted on 07/25/2013 1:02:49 PM PDT by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: Fiji Hill

Little Rock (close to my home)....number 14. Beat by Memphis AGAIN!


48 posted on 07/25/2013 1:03:04 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: cherry
just visited El Paso once, it is very poor, but I’ll have to say the people are very nice

I drove El Paso's Mission Trail the last time I was there and visited several houses of worship dating back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

I also drove past Rosa's Cantina. If I stop there on my next visit, I don't think I'll be playing music on the juke box and asking a Mexican girl for a dance.

49 posted on 07/25/2013 1:14:25 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Jeff Chandler

Biased poll. Not ONE city in the Southeast?


50 posted on 07/25/2013 1:18:52 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Note to the NSA: I approved this dissention. What are you going to do about it Punks?)
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To: Fledermaus
Biased poll. Not ONE city in the Southeast?

Hialeah, which is incredibly unbelievable.

Perhaps they are right when they say that illegal aliens don't report crimes.

51 posted on 07/25/2013 1:33:34 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Do they ever do one on safest states? I was reading about crime statistics in N. Dakota. With a population of around 650,000 constant for over fifty years, the state has had years where they registered exactly one murder. There’s been an uptick in recent years blamed on the influx of wild and crazy oil field workers, but it’s pretty hard to beat a state that occasionally has one murder for more than half a million in population. Just try to think of a major American city (500,000+) that has had only one murder in any year in the past fifty years.


52 posted on 07/25/2013 6:21:55 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: SeekAndFind

The graph you posted clearly shows the rates of violent crimes and murder zoomed up beginning about 1965.

Ummm... LBJ’s Civil Rights changes? Coincidence?


53 posted on 07/25/2013 7:54:00 PM PDT by octex
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