I'll moidarize ya' !!!

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:07 pm

Yeah, but your car will get stolen less this year.

bort · Post by **bort** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:50 pm

I think Baltimore (a city with about 650,000 people) has had somewhere around 260 murders for the year. I think that's among the worst in the country, if not the worst. At least it's under 300...

TMurphy · Post by **TMurphy** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:10 am

According to the stats I just looked up, there were 537 murders in NYC (biggest city near me) in 2005. Sounds like a lot, but in a city with 8.2 million people, that's a staggeringly low figure. Apparently murders were up about 11% this year, even though overall crime dropped 7%. NYC is still the safest big city in America....go figure.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:59 pm

"Philadelphia's 2006 homicide total was 403 as of Wednesday, the first time the number has topped 400 in nearly a decade. There were 380 murders in 2005."

Memphis ain't even in the single A league...

tofu · Post by **tofu** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:21 pm

What would be of interest to me is if they would break these statistics down by how many were random acts of violence involving strangers. It would give a more useful indication of how dangerous an area is rather than lumping in all the acts of violence comitted by perps who knew or were related to their victims.

tubaguy9 · Post by **tubaguy9** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:51 pm

TMurphy wrote:According to the stats I just looked up, there were 537 murders in NYC (biggest city near me) in 2005. Sounds like a lot, but in a city with 8.2 million people, that's a staggeringly low figure. Apparently murders were up about 11% this year, even though overall crime dropped 7%. NYC is still the safest big city in America....go figure.

Compare the 537 out of 8.2 mil. to the murder rate of 1 or 2 out of several Billion a year in China...

I know, different government, so therefore, that's a different story.

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:24 pm

tubaguy9 wrote:Compare the 537 out of 8.2 mil. to the murder rate of 1 or 2 out of several Billion a year in China... I know, different government, so therefore, that's a different story.

reported.
not to mention how many people the state kills and then harvests the organs of...

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:34 pm

tubaguy9 wrote:
TMurphy wrote:According to the stats I just looked up, there were 537 murders in NYC (biggest city near me) in 2005. Sounds like a lot, but in a city with 8.2 million people, that's a staggeringly low figure. Apparently murders were up about 11% this year, even though overall crime dropped 7%. NYC is still the safest big city in America....go figure.
Compare the 537 out of 8.2 mil. to the murder rate of 1 or 2 out of several Billion a year in China...

I assume you aren't counting the thousands that the Chinese government murders.

Tubainsauga · Post by **Tubainsauga** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:14 am

For Mississauga, Ontario in 2005:
Homicides: 12
Attempted Murder: 12
Total Assaults: 4560
Total Roberries: 2930
Sexual Offences: 109
Abductions: 11

Population of roughly 650 000
(The overall crime rate went up about 0.6 percent from 2004-2005)

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:10 pm

Maybe some folks will figure out that all those taxpayer dollars that got taken from early childhood and gang intervention programs and diverted to line the pockets of builders and real estate type folks to build unneeded convention centers, sports arenas, water front projects, etc. (because these would bring in truckloads of tourist dollars and make our city the envy of the nation (How gullible are you?)) might have something to do with the crime increase. ... Maybe ... but don't count on it.

And yes, that was a political statement. Shoot me now.
(before somebody else beats you to it.)

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:36 pm

SplatterTone wrote:Shoot me now.
(before somebody else beats you to it.)

Ok. If you insist...

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:42 pm

Pack it with bourbon or brandy (80 proof minimum), and you got a deal.

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:49 pm

SplatterTone wrote:that was a political statement. Shoot me now.

You be quiet, he doesn't have to shoot you now.

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:53 pm

SplatterTone wrote: Shoot me now.
(before somebody else beats you to it.)