Gonna be like Venezuela? Baltimore's already there!

Mr H said:

Something's odd with that.

StLouis and N'awlins should be out near the left end, too.

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Mr H said:

Something's odd with that.

StLouis and N'awlins should be out near the left end, too.

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Derek1320 said:

You're right. Breitbart published a list last month and St. Louis was 61 per 100k. I remember seeing a similar list last year with STL edging us out as well. Must just be the sample.

We still whoop the majority of Latin America's ass though. I was listening to a recent Joe Rogan podcast where he talked with a narco-journalist who covered Mexico. They were referencing the obscene 100-200 murders per 100,000 in many of Mexico's worst areas but when Joe asked about the USA guess which city the guy referenced first...

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Venezuela the Socialist Utopia

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However Maduro clung to power and socialist rule continues in the nation amid soaring hyper inflation that is making many of Caracas' hardened criminals consider leaving the country.

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'These days, nobody is doing well - not honest citizens who produce wealth or the criminals who prey on them,' he said.

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zoostation said:

At least as far as crime. An interesting graphic I ran across.

Leftist grandmoms stomp their little cankles and demand lots of meaningless and spiteful Action, but could give a shit about the urban poor really affected by crime. They'd much rather badger the harmless gun cabinets of the law-abiding than take on anything even a little bit difficult like the true causes of crime and the real solutions.

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Mr H said:

Something's odd with that.

StLouis and N'awlins should be out near the left end, too.

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Biggfoot44 said:

But any such types of comparisons fall off into the weeds of statistics and geography .

If going by municipal boundaries , some cities have city limits that are huge , taking in lots of square miles with very different neighborhoods , some " defacto cities " are split over multiple civil subdivisions . Baltimore happens to have the convergence of the high crime 'hoods being in the city limits , and the 2/3 of the metro area population in the surrounding jurisdictions is much more statistically average . If you hypothetically drew a line within Chicago that contained 600k population center around South Side, it would look different .


Totally spitballing , to get an actual comparison of what we're trying to compare , you would look at rates for contiguous zip codes , with combined population of certain threshold , maybe in 50-100k population range .

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Mr H said:

I guess if you put too many bad cities on one side of the chart, it might tip over...

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