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To: TallahasseeConservative

If you made an overlay of feral-American population density, I bet it would match up nicely with most dangerous cities.


12 posted on 03/08/2018 11:41:45 AM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

Probably an exact match.


18 posted on 03/08/2018 11:44:08 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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The Atlantic Magazine (shocker) did an expose about a decade ago correlating Section 8 housing with crime rates in certain cities - e.g. Memphis. Here's the link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/american-murder-mystery/306872/

Here are the damning excerpts:

About six months ago, they decided to put a hunch to the test. Janikowski merged his computer map of crime patterns with Betts’s map of Section8 rentals. Where Janikowski saw a bunny rabbit, Betts saw a sideways horseshoe (“He has a better imagination,” she said). Otherwise, the match was near-perfect. On the merged map, dense violent-crime areas are shaded dark blue, and Section8 addresses are represented by little red dots. All of the dark-blue areas are covered in little red dots, like bursts of gunfire. The rest of the city has almost no dots.

Betts remembers her discomfort as she looked at the map. The couple had been musing about the connection for months, but they were amazed—and deflated—to see how perfectly the two data sets fit together. She knew right away that this would be a “hard thing to say or write.” Nobody in the antipoverty community and nobody in city leadership was going to welcome the news that the noble experiment that they’d been engaged in for the past decade had been bringing the city down, in ways they’d never expected. But the connection was too obvious to ignore, and Betts and Janikowski figured that the same thing must be happening all around the country. Eventually, they thought, they’d find other researchers who connected the dots the way they had, and then maybe they could get city leaders, and even national leaders, to listen.

22 posted on 03/08/2018 11:51:20 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: sparklite2
If you made an overlay of feral-American population density, I bet it would match up nicely with most dangerous cities.

No way, all those alarm commercials show it is white guys doing all the crime.

59 posted on 03/08/2018 12:51:48 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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