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Posted by AlM on Wed Apr 17 14:10:51 2024, in response to Steve Sailer: why NYC needs a low crime rate, posted by Peter Rosa on Wed Apr 17 13:18:31 2024. Meh. He has a point, but:- In Cincinnati, even the poor (I'll grant that most violent crime is committed by poor people, even though most poor people don't commit violent crimes) have (possibly unreliable) cars. - Enough minority members are middle class that there are plenty of those dark skinned folks in middle class neighborhoods. So if you're the type who gets nervous every time they see a young black guy in the neighborhood, Cincinnati won't save you from agita. - The people who live near NYC's downtown business districts tend to be affluent. That's not true of many smaller cities. Criminals tend to do their stuff near their homes even in NYC. Too much work to take the subway into midtown to mug someone. Also too many cops, too many cell phones to report your crime instantly. - Crazies are everywhere. I don't know about Cincinnati (why did he pick such a hard-to-spell name?) but many smaller cities have crazies too. - Thanks to the internet, all bizarre crimes get wide attention. NYC has more of those in number (not as a percentage of population). So NYC is always in the news for a bizarre crime. That doesn't mean you're more at risk for them in NYC; in fact, probably less so. PS. How about cell phones as a cause of reduced street crime? It used to take minutes to find a pay phone to report a crime, maybe more in slum areas. |
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