Posted on 04/25/2012 9:32:22 PM PDT by smokingfrog
The United States is less violent today than at any time in the last 20 years -- Maine was the least violent state and Louisiana the most violent, a group says.
The United States Peace Index, produced by Institute for Economics and Peace, found Cambridge, Mass., the most peaceful metropolitan area and Detroit the most violent.
The index analyzes peacefulness at the state and city levels, via five indicators: The number of homicides, number of violent crimes, the incarceration rate, number of police employees and the availability of small arms.
There were improvements in all indicators from the 2011 to the 2012 Index. The national homicide rate decreased by 3.78 percent, the violent crime rate fell 6.03 percent and the total number of state prisoners fell by 0.6 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
The United States Peace Index, produced by “Institute for Economics and Peace”...
Leftie organizations always give themselves away.
What a crock.
Guess which areas have a high percentage of Holders People and which have a low percentage?
Looks to me like they have this all basackwards. Wonder why they didn’t include New York, Illinois or California in their stats.
Wouldn't it have been a whole lot simpler and more honest to count just the first two -- that is, the actual violence -- as "violence"?
But then, the "Institute for Economics and Peace" might not have gotten the result they wanted...
Lets see you’re stats?
Mmmmm ...
This requires further study.
/s
I would imagine both states have fairly lax gun laws, I know Maine does. The difference is New Orleans. That city is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
When you look at a break down of crime, it is not a surprise the states that are 80-90 percent white are less violent.
Guess which areas have a high percentage of Holders People and which have a low percentage?
Yep.
When you look at a break down of crime, it is not a surprise the states that are 80-90 percent white are less violent.
That’s a fact.
It’s safe because people are scared to go out after dark for fear of the two ugly state senators and that one gaze into their craven heads would turn them into zombies in name only or just turn them into traditional stone.
Yep, it’s a safe state.
I’m sure there are characteristics of each state that could explain this. But I’ve thought about it for hours and I just can’t figure it out.
The difference is demographics. LA is 32% black, whereas ME is 1% black. All of the southern states are more crime-ridden than the rest of the nation because %-wise they have way more blacks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_African-American_population
The stereotype is that southern whites are violent. The truth is that they were more prone to vigilantism in the past, whereas blacks everywhere tend to commit 8x as many crimes on a per capita basis. Obviously black criminals are a small minority of the black population, but these criminals do account for about 50% of the crimes in the country, despite blacks only being 12% of the population.
Louisiana:
Total Pop. = 4,482,646Maine:Black Pop. = 1,451,944
Black Pop. As % of Total = 32.4 %
Total Pop. = 1,294,464Black Pop. = 6,760
Black Pop. As % of Total = 0.5 %
Wait, Louisiana or New Orleans?
Because New Orleans is a real damn special kind of Hell hole, ain’t nuthin’ else like it.
We live out in the sticks in Alaska, everybody has a gun with them at all times come this time of year; hasn’t been a murder in 30 years and that guy was drowned by his drunk buddies; not an Afri Amer within 300 miles of our community, no crime what so ever. The Indians get drunk, but no problems. I couldn’t imagine what I read about the urban areas of the USA nowadays.
The least violent - “Metropolitan Peace Index Results
1 Cambridge-Newton-Framingham, MA”
Not Cambridge with Boston? No manipulation of the data here. /sarc
I think this lefty organ maybe out of Cambridge.
This article is so full of crap I don’t know where to start. No doubt the author is from the safest city, BY COINCIDENCE. LOL I thought for a minute I was reading a high school newspaper.
Maine: Black Pop. % of Total = 0.5 %
Hammer, this is nail. Nail, this is hammer.
Ever wonder why whites in Dixie used to act that way?
Proof is in the pudding today...no fear....run amuck ...the primitives that is
Is that supposed to be an indicator of more violence or less violence?
Why, for example, does "number of police employees" affect how violent a city is? There's a causal relationship, but surely it is the effectiveness of the police, not merely their numbers, which cut into crime. Besides, the simple fact is that 85%+ of all crime is against property, not the person. A large police force may be spending most of its time investigating burglaries and traffic offences rather than assaults. As for "the availability of small arms", surely it is the USE of guns, not the owning of them, that indicates a level of violence in a society. s not neccesarily mean that a society is violent.
An essential tool for modern living is the ability to "talk back" to statistics. Once you do that, as other posters have stated, you soon find that these surveys usually do nothing more than confirm the prejudices and opinions of the people who conduct them. On the occasional instances when they don't, the results would no doubt quietly disappear.
Because New Orleans is a real damn special kind of Hell hole, ain’t nuthin’ else like it.
My favorite author, Hunter S. Thompson, characterized N’awlins as a “sewer with a high crime rate”.
A lot of Somalian refugees have gone to Maine for the generous welfare.
African blacks who come here tend to be hardworking and seek to better themselves through education, in my experience. They know what hell awaits through tribalism, totalitarianism and social breakdown, and are grateful to have escaped it.
Chasing after benefits is not a good sign though, if what you point out is broadly true.
Is [availability of small arms] supposed to be an indicator of more violence or less violence?I suppose that if you are a professional home invader, you will perceive a neighborhood with high availability of small arms as especially violent, unpeaceful, and generally unpleasant.
Surprised they didn’t say, “High percentage of Cajuns and alligators in Louizyana. Potential for violence therefore nearly unlimited.”
This study is a crock.
Note: Chicago is not a state and was not ranked
In the hands of the wrong people. Put them into the hands of law abiding citizens and watch the crime rate shoot downward.
Oh, excuse me that’s a racial thought ain't it!
We loves us some guns in Louisiana! Something to celebrate IMHO.
Hunter was being kind.
I spent around 85% of my life in New Orleans, and I do not ever want to return there again.
It’s not even a nice place to visit.
“Guess which areas have a high percentage of Holders People and which have a low percentage?”
That was a very realist thing to say. ;-)
It’s interesting that when libs want to rank states or regions for health, they count widespread availability of doctors and medical facilities as a positive factor, but when they want to rank them for violence, they count widespread availability of police and small arms as a negative factor.
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