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15 Most Dangerous States for 2008 (Nevada #1)
AOL Money ^ | March 17, 2008

Posted on 03/17/2008 8:01:07 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

The results of CQ Press's annual Crime State Rankings are in. Join us as we reveal which 15 states were ranked as the most dangerous for 2008.

States are compared against the national average for six crimes, each carrying equal weight.

Click through our gallery and see if your state made the list.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Alabama; US: Arizona; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Maryland; US: Michigan; US: Nevada; US: New Mexico; US: South Carolina; US: Tennessee
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To: nmh
California rates 3 of the top 10 safestest cities.

Go to 11 of the top safetst and California holds 4 or the top 10 safest cities in the U.S.

Hmmmm

61 posted on 03/17/2008 8:55:57 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: nmh

New hampshire is safe because it is basically a rich suburb of Boston -— where the crime is.

This is a silly list.

Any state with low overall population density and one crappy city makes the list.


62 posted on 03/17/2008 8:58:54 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Mossad!)
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To: Sir Hailstone

Don’t you pick on Picksburg, now.


63 posted on 03/17/2008 8:59:28 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Bi-partisanship: Democrats and RINOs working together to screw up the country)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Anyone notice that all off the safest states were predominantly white states? Just an observation.


64 posted on 03/17/2008 9:00:01 AM PDT by redangus
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
What's UP with Florida? It gets a ranking as #9? I mean we should either be up near the top or not there at all. I realize we have an awful lot of immigrants of all kinds, but our reputation as the GUNshine State is also a crime deterrent. I don't think Florida belongs in the top ten.
65 posted on 03/17/2008 9:05:49 AM PDT by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: rhombus

“Those of us on the Northern.....Border are considered the safest”.
It’s because your Border is with Canada and not Mexico.
And if you’ll look at the chart, you’ll also find that the “safest” states are those with few “Minorities” and the more “dangerous” states are much more heavily “Minority” population wise.


66 posted on 03/17/2008 9:10:06 AM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: BnBlFlag

I think it has mostly to do with large urban centers (e.g., northern state that borders Canada but is far from a “safe” state).


67 posted on 03/17/2008 9:16:22 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: Alter Kaker

Alaska is a very multicultural place. Cities are all foreigners, Asia, Polynesian, Mexican, Chilean; yet many of the immigrants have flourished here. In rural areas, you have the native populations who suffer massive problems due to the influence of Alcohol; actually going extinct from it. Violence, abuse, suicide, rape, OD’ing from booze, freezing to death in snowbanks, or burning up in a cabin is more the the norm; all from the culture clash (BOOZE) with our white world. The booze is what sends crime rates off the charts here.

Yet, where we live, hasn’t been a shooting in over 25 years and everyone has sidearms on their belts. Nobody ever removes keys from vehicles. We don’t even have locks on our outside doors. No crime at all if you keep your booze locked in gun vault and everyone knows it.


68 posted on 03/17/2008 9:16:29 AM PDT by Eska ( the re)
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To: Fishrrman

What was Hitlers ethnic makeup?

I think the big advantage with the safe states is that people aren’t all crammed into tight cities like sardines.


69 posted on 03/17/2008 9:33:31 AM PDT by proudpapa (May God Bless Our Troops.)
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To: dragnet2

It’s probably the OTHER cities that drag the good ones down. The state at large, is most likely properly positioned.


70 posted on 03/17/2008 9:40:12 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: MeanWestTexan

I’m not so sure about that.

NJ is one of the most densely populated states and it is a small state and doesn’t make EITHER list.


71 posted on 03/17/2008 9:41:05 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Fishrrman
...the “safest” states...

1. New Hampshire
2. Maine
3. North Dakota
4. Vermont
5. South Dakota
6. Wyoming
7. Montana

What is the ethnic makeup of the above states?

Totally immaterial.

It should be obvious that the magic ingredient is freakin' cold. Apparently low temperatures feeeze crooks of all kinds into immobility.

72 posted on 03/17/2008 9:49:25 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: nmh

NJ proves the point:

Camden (#5 most dangerous) and Newark (#20) NJ are on the list as the most dangerous cities in the USA.

Nonetheless, the relatively dense population of NJ keeps NJ off the “most dangerous state list”

Las Vegas (in “most dangerous state” Nevada) doesn’t even crack the top 20.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0921299.html

Basically, at the state level, this is a stupid metric.


73 posted on 03/17/2008 9:53:19 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Mossad!)
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To: rhombus
> Those of us on the Northern (NH, Maine, Vermont) border are considered the safest.

You also have a border with Massachusetts, which is dangerous in other kinds of ways.......

74 posted on 03/17/2008 9:55:39 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: ari-freedom
Nevada...the libertarian paradise.

Financed in part by William Bennett?

75 posted on 03/17/2008 9:57:25 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: NewJerseyJoe
You also have a border with Massachusetts, which is dangerous in other kinds of ways.......

Um...yes, we run the risk of turning into Connecticut... Vermont... New York. Sorry, we're already there.

76 posted on 03/17/2008 9:58:14 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: proudpapa

“What was Hitlers ethnic makeup?
I think the big advantage with the safe states is that people aren’t all crammed into tight cities like sardines.”

Ethnic makeup has EVERYthing to do with it. My original question remains.

Do not these states have cities, as well?

- John


77 posted on 03/17/2008 10:12:36 AM PDT by Fishrrman
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To: Alter Kaker; geezerwheezer

they were asking a question and said it would be interesting to see the results, not openly accusing anyone of anything.

there’s no need to be a jerk about it...


78 posted on 03/17/2008 10:18:27 AM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: JackDanielsOldNo7

As a Canadian US resident near Wilmington I can say that we have our share of “Yankees” in our own neighborhood who retired down here. How they are messing things up I have no clue? Can you elaborate on how they are “messing things up”?

I have seen the best and worse of all sides here as an outsider and the advice we gave our children was to get along with everyone. At my son’s high school 46% of the kids there are part of the free lunch program!!! And after all these years you still have the us vs them, North vs South, black vs white crap going on. My wife volunteers at the school and has seen this first hand.

I have seen my share of the white trash rednecks, black gangsters, illegals, and then I have seen the Yankees. The Yankee kids go through hell down here trying to adjust not to mention their parents.

The Yankees I know volunteer at the schools and get involved with community and they are the reason for the economic growth going on down here.


79 posted on 03/17/2008 10:26:12 AM PDT by aCDNinUSA
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To: aCDNinUSA
Can you elaborate on how they are “messing things up”?

Have you ever been to the Communist Bloc know as Raleigh Durham and Chapel Hill. They bring their liberal voting, high taxes and gov regulation with them from freakin jersey and other liberal hellholes.

80 posted on 03/17/2008 10:31:23 AM PDT by JackDanielsOldNo7 (On guard until the seal is broken)
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