Very high Amish populations in those cities.
Of course, but you’ll notice they did not include that with the rest of their statistical data. Could be racist to do such a thing!
Either that or those Norwegian Lutherans trying to force hot dishes on everyone. You know how rowdy they get after a 2nd cup of coffee!
It isn’t poverty or unemployment that causes crime. Just look at the statistics from the Great Depression.
Add in a low Tea Party population, and that spells trouble. None of those cities have any significant Tea Party activity to speak of.
And Republicans are very scarce too.
I wish they would adjust the figures to remove criminal-on-criminal crime. Unless I’m a bad guy getting mixed up in this lifestyle, many of these figures probably don’t apply to us. (And frankly, who cares about criminal-on-criminal crime?? Not me. I like that they “police” themselves. It’s A LOT cheaper and effective than using my tax dollars.)
Other than for trivia purposes, I am only interested in the spillover into the law abiding community. Why not go to the jungle and report animals killing other animals??
That is the one constant in all these cities and the #1 predictor of high violent crime rates.