This will be the fourth and last time I will answer your inane question. First, let's stop trying to make this a comparison between crime rates in various cities. It is about LA and the impact gangs are having on crime and racial friction. If you don't believe that that there is a serious gang problem in LA and the surrounding area, you are barking up the wrong tree.
Second, I provided you with an extensive article about the gang problem in LA, which has been exacerbated by the huge influx of Mexican immigrants, legal and illegal. You discount the article without even bothering to read it. You would rather wallow in ignorance rather than deal with facts. Here are some relevant facts:
1. In 2006 there were 273 gang related murders [out of a total of 480].
2. Gang crime in South Los Angeles spiked 24 percent in 2006, 14 percent in the city overall and more than 60 percent in the San Fernando Valley.
3. From the Mayor of LA: “Los Angeles is the epicenter of the nation’s gang crisis, and an effective assault on gang crime will require increased suppression, intervention and prevention measures,” Villaraigosa said after Rice’s report was released. “Street gangs are responsible for the majority of all the murders in Los Angeles and nearly 70 percent of all the shootings. We must work to address gang violence in a truly comprehensive way.” In other words, gang violence is driving the violent crime rate in LA. Without it, LA's crime rate would be significantly lower.
4. The accelerating current of gang violence is colliding with a growing wave of Hispanic migration from Mexico and Central America into the United States. Hispanic gangs now dominate the hardcore narcotics business nationwide, and they are physically pushing historically entrenched black gangs out of their territories.
5. Last January, a report on gang violence commissioned by the Los Angeles City Council found that the gang epidemic is largely immune to general declines in crime nationwide. In other words, gang crime is surging just as other violent crime is decreasing. And unlike other categories of crime, gangs and gang-related crime are spreading to formerly safe middle-class communities, or, “to a neighborhood near you,” says the report’s author, civil rights attorney Constance Rice.
6. Last January, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa cried uncle, saying that it was time for government and law enforcement to admit they have failed to stop gangs or even understand what they are. He appealed for federal help to make a Marshall Plan–style push to tackle what’s been an intractable problem.
7. The bigger and more dangerous portion of the country’s 800,000-odd gang members are disaffected and marginalized youths looking to identify with something. Of New Jersey’s 38 hardcore Blood sets, 13 are transplanted L.A. gangs, including the Bounty Hunter Bloods from Nickerson Gardens. The migration of gang members out of L.A. is an even spray pattern, the FBI says. Gangs have coalesced most heavily in the Northeast, the country’s most lucrative narcotics market, but they are also moving to the Northwest (San Francisco and Seattle) and across the Midwest and South (Little Rock and Charlotte).
8. At last count, Los Angeles County had more than 714 gangs and 80,000 gang members. That makes one of every hundred county residents either a hardcore soldier in a gang or an “associate” — the getaway drivers, lookouts, “cookers” (people who know how to turn cocaine into crack) and “hooks” (people who direct customers to drug houses) — or an “affiliate,” a gang member with no specific duties.
9. Watts and neighboring Compton, historically and famously black neighborhoods, are already roughly 70 percent Hispanic. Gangbangers in Watts tell me they know they can’t keep up. And they know their fate. “Ten years from now gangs from all other races besides Hispanic are going to be pushed out of everywhere,” Andre says.
In sum, street gangs are responsible for the majority of all the murders in Los Angeles and nearly 70 percent of all the shootings. Racial ‘Cleansing’ in L.A. Federal prosecutors say a powerful Latino gang systematically targeted rival black gang members and innocent black civilians in a reign of terror.
The crime rate in LA is unacceptably high as it is in most major cities in the US. To take any comfort in the fact that "only" 480 people were murdered in 2006 or that there were 1059 cases of forcible rape or 25,289 car thefts because the crime rate in some other major cities may be higher per capita is defining deviancy down. Of the top ten largest cities in the US, LA's crime rate is higher than four and lower than five. The reality is that all ten have unacceptable crime rates compared to most of the developed world and most of the nation.
You have done everything but answer the simple 2 line questions.
I learned long ago to be very suspect and beware of those that respond with long winded answers to very simple questions.
You fit that profile perfectly.
I've ran into petty criminals that polish and deliver BS better than you slick.