Posted on 03/31/2014 6:27:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
That works.
There is no reason we cannot do things ourselves, such as this.
Zero.
The current meme is fine with me. Red is for redneck and red blooded.
Bitter clingers.........................
Unfortunately every miscreant and naer-do-well on the continent seems to make a beeline for Florida.
Not true. Not true at all.
The incumbent party, the one holding the White House, was always blue.
Just think in the nest thirty yeas maybe Detroit will be a small city and could be on the list. They just missed the cut off for making Gary a small city. Maybe after the next census it will be on the list.
This is probably the only list of negatives that my state of N.J. is not well represented on. We seem to do very well on other negative lists.
I’m surprised that Fayetteville, NC didn’t make the list, as it was recently reported in the local newspaper that Fayetteville has the highest crime rate per capita in North Carolina and third highest in the U.S.
And yes, Fort Bragg is right next door.
Nearly 50,000 people have left Flint since I lived there in the 90’s. They are about to drop to five-figures, which should land them atop the next list.
The only reason Camden, NJ isn’t on the list is because it’s too large to make the small town list.
I think the crime rate vs proximity of military bases is because of the recruiting practices over the years.
Back in the old days, judges would give young men the choice of going to jail or joining the military, in the hope that they would be re-oriented into a civil human being. I don’t know if they still do that, bu I wouldn’t be surprised if the do....................
That there are safe places to live is a complete fallacy.
A fool’s dream.
I live in a rural area of NC.
50 years or so ago, an area where people never locked their doors. No trespassing signs were rare as hen’s teeth.
Knock on a farmer’s door to ask if you could hunt on his land and you got invited in for “dinner”. Even though he had never seen you before.
I was born in this county but did not live in it until I was forty years old.
Since I returned in 1968 there have been five murders in the immediate neighborhood.
Two of them my second cousin and her husband directly across the road from the house in which I was born, a common thing 86 years ago.
One half mile from our house, on our road, lives the widow of a man killed in a robbery. He was the only person of the five who was engaged in questionable activity. He had a weed patch on his property. Not where the widow lives today, but still in our neighborhood.
One mile from our house, an old retired man, deaf from operating loud equipment, was murdered in is sleep.
Without boring you with more detail, the point is that if it can happen in a community of church going decent hard working people, it can happen anywhere.
If you think your neighborhood is one where it can not happen, you are dreaming.
So statistics like this are valuable if they keep you out of the worst places, but misleading if they lead you to think your area is safe. There is no safe place.
So be wary, ready and quick.
I’m sure NJ will try harder the next time.............
I see that Lancaster PA made the list. Not surprising. And FWIW, it’s not the Amish Mafia that is the problem there.
It’s mostly the same here in York PA. Some days, when I’m watching the local news and hear about the latest shooting or stabbing, carjacking, home invasion, I feel like I’m back home in Baltimore. The only time I venture into York City is when I absolutely have to like back in October when I had to go to the court house to get my expedited passport for an upcoming business trip. It was like going to a 3rd world country. And downtown York doesn’t have much to offer in terms of restaurants or museums or attractions so the only reason I have to go there is when I have to.
Mind you, the surrounding areas, rural York and Lancaster counties are beautiful and there are many good and conservative people in these parts but to be fair and honest it isn’t just the minorities; there are a lot of white welfare scum, mothers with multiple kids from different baby daddies, meth heads and heroin addicts who commit a good number of crimes outside of Lancaster and York Cities. I work in Manheim which is a quaint little town in the heart of Amish country but I understand that there is a very big heroin problem there.
“The current meme is fine with me. Red is for redneck and red blooded.”
For 100 years Reds have been red; I’d prefer to keep it that way myself.
True. I grew up in a very rural area in Mississippi. We had crimes even there, back in the early 60’s. Shootings, robberies, drugs, etc. weren’t real common, but they still happened..................
Rednecks have had red necks before Marx was a rug rat.
Kingsport, TN, about 2/3 of the way down the list.
The crime reports in the local newspaper read like a reality TV show, a cross between Cops and Honey Boo-Boo.
http://www.timesnews.net/section/police-blotter
Ditto
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