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Murder rates in the US

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.John.
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I just saw a thing in the newspaper that showed very us state, and how many people were murdered in each state last year. Alaska had almost 200 more murders than California or New York. crazy. Washington D.C. had twice the murders of the entire state of California
Oct 18 2005 5:48PM
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Anathema
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i'll never understand the drive behind somebody that's willing to take another persons life.
Oct 18 2005 5:51PM
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nilzlet
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I think vermont has the highest rate of kids killing their parents. either that or its highest total rate of murder...It was o n some cnn show a couple years ago
Oct 18 2005 6:14PM
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JazzyJ
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yay nyc is the safest big city in america. See, black people really aren't that dangerous
Oct 18 2005 6:23PM
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Ski-hobo
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then how do you explain DC?
Oct 18 2005 8:25PM
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altaeric84
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if only we could abort every black baby and have our crime rates drop
Oct 18 2005 8:27PM
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Ski-hobo
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shut up, logic is not welcome here
Oct 18 2005 8:29PM
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ECFS-Attitash
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Abortion actually did cause the crime rate to drop in the United States, but not because it limited the number of black kids. It just reduced the number of unwanted children, who are the most likely to turn to crime. Some young economist at U Chicago did a study on it a couple years ago.
Oct 18 2005 8:31PM
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Ski-hobo
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wow, never knew, to bad more people don't have abortions
Oct 18 2005 8:32PM
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downhiller52
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you can read all about it in freakenomics
Oct 18 2005 9:10PM
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ECFS-Attitash
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It's actually not in Freakonomics, though that book is sweet. He published several papers on the subject. I think it was too controversial to put in the book.
Oct 24 2005 10:30AM
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pmills
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actualy it is in the book, its a chapter called roe vs wade i think.
Oct 24 2005 10:33AM
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Badfish2
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you're right
Oct 24 2005 10:55AM
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Badfish2
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or are you.. Bill Bennett said it after being 'inspired' by the book i think.
Oct 24 2005 10:58AM
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Badfish2
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.. the black abortion thing.
Oct 24 2005 11:00AM
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Lord_Piot
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its cause DC is full of poor niggers.
Oct 24 2005 11:19AM
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C.R.420
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yes but only good old Ohio has nazi demonstrations. OH REPRESENT!
Oct 24 2005 12:20PM
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ECFS-Attitash
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oh well. i thought it was just mentioned in passing, so much for my reading comprehension.
Oct 25 2005 9:05PM
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downhiller52
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yeah right, you been to idaho.
Oct 25 2005 9:07PM
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ThisAngelicRage
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watch out john you could be next. the vergennes crackheads are out of control and ruthless sons of bitches.
Oct 25 2005 9:10PM
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Lord_Piot
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no im serious

DC probably has the hardest ghettos in the states.
Oct 25 2005 9:12PM
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*Fujative*
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this contry is going down the poop shute
Oct 25 2005 9:16PM
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.John.
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not really, murder rates are their lowest in 40 years or something
Oct 25 2005 9:17PM
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skiierman
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It usually starts out with someone insulting another person's mom.
Oct 25 2005 9:24PM
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SkiBunny69
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200 more in alaska? 200 would be like a massive amount, I doubt there are really htat many a year period
Oct 25 2005 9:26PM
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skiierman
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Alaska is a big state though... And filled with a bunch of eskimos and shit. So I don't doubt those numbers at all; if anything that's just the count of bodies they have recovered so far from the frozen tundra.
Oct 25 2005 9:29PM
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BioEnhanced
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not that im one of them. But pro-life people prolly think the murder rate has gone up with abortions. Just a thought.
Oct 25 2005 9:39PM
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MitchPee
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no actually alaska is the "most depressed state" the weather is always shitty there so people have more of an urge to go crazy...they also have the most legally insane people
Oct 25 2005 9:45PM
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iggyskier
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There is no way the number of murders in AK was greater than California or whatever.

Do you know what the actually murder rate would be? It would be unbelieveable. It would be like 1 in 10 were murder (obviously an exageration).

As far as cities go, Chicago usually has the most number of murders and New Orleans had the highest rate.

The list for murder rate in 2002 was such.

(1) Washington, DC 45.8
(2) Detroit 42.0
(3) Baltimore 38.3
(4) Memphis 24.7
(5) Chicago 22.2
(6) Philadelphia 19.0
(7) Columbus 18.1
(8) Milwaukee 18.0
(9) Los Angeles 17.5
(10) Dallas 15.8

citied like New Haven, Newark, St. Louis, and a bunch more also have pretty high murder rates.
Oct 25 2005 9:51PM
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MitchPee
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yes but i meant most legally insane ratio...sorry if it sounded like they have millions of crazy people
Oct 25 2005 9:57PM
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awsomecoolguy
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wow have you ever been to DC every one is way mean like way worse than NY
Oct 25 2005 10:02PM
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.John.
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not the murder rate, sorry, just the total number of murders for the year
Oct 25 2005 10:12PM
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