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I'm just letting every one know how much of a mama's boy I am so they won't pick on me. Expecially those Lyle and Jack meanies.
It appears not, but in any event you won't find Chicago on either list. The logic of judging a city's safety by the ability of a person to walk through a violent gang infested neighborhood is questionable to say the least. The violence is essentially gang-on-gang and is confined to their respective turf. There are no gangsta drive-bys on Michigan Avenue, Rush Street, Navy Pier, etc.....Now that doesn't square with the FBI's new crime data:
Now that doesn't square with the FBI's new crime data:
Flint, MI
Detroit, MI
St. Louis, MO
New Haven, CT
Memphis, TN
Oakland, CA
Little Rock, AR
Baltimore, MD
Rockford, IL
Stockton, CA
Rockford? Wow, who woulda thunk?
Rockford is where eloping couples from Wisconsin would go to tie the knot, seeing how it was right over the border and all. As I understood it, Illinois didn't have the waiting period for marriages the way Wisconsin did (we're talking more than half a century ago now, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if the laws have changed since then). I've been through on several occasions over the intervening decades, and I saw nothing there that said "scary" to me.
Gotta wonder what kind(s) of crime these data take into account. I'm assuming they're showing crime rates per capita, and in a smaller city (such as Rockford) one big, nasty, multiple homicide could really skew the stats. I'm not arguing that's the case here, but I'm left to wonder what the explanation might be.
It appears not, but in any event you won't find Chicago on either list. The logic of judging a city's safety by the ability of a person to walk through a violent gang infested neighborhood is questionable to say the least. The violence is essentially gang-on-gang and is confined to their respective turf. There are no gangsta drive-bys on Michigan Avenue, Rush Street, Navy Pier, etc.....
My people settled in Chicago in 1885. I was born and raised on the Near North Side (a stones throw from Cabrini Green) and I went to college at the U of C on the scary South Side. I continue to keep an office and apartment there which I visit frequently. You, on the other hand, are not a Chicagoan but a suburbanite (a great distinction) who it appears is afraid of his own shadow. One thing I despise are people from places like Crystal Lake calling themselves Chicagoans.Please Hollywood, if you don't live here don't tell us what goes on here.
The population is 156,180 at last count and the violent crime per thousand was 14.5. This included 20 murders. The summary was as follows:
"Rockford has unusually high violent-crime rates for a city of its size. Most notably, the city has the fourth-highest rate of aggravated assault in the country, with 10.5 cases for every 1,000 citizens in 2010. During the same period, 20 murders occurred, almost double the number in 2000. Quoted by the Rockford Register Star in 2007, Winnebago County Sheriff Dick Meyers said that he believed the city’s "location worked against [it,]" as Rockford receives traffic from the drug markets in Madison, Chicago, and Milwaukee, resulting in heightened rates of violence."
Maybe that travel across the border made it much worse. With an unemployment rate of 13.3% it is pretty depressing.
I think I'm gonna hide out with Tonyb in his mother's basement. I think I wet my pants.
I'm trying to keep things funny.
Ah, so that's where you get your racist tendencies; a common trait of Southsiders. Though they don't hide their ugliness behind statistics as you do. Look, we get it; you don't like Blacks and Hispanics so you moved to a lily white suburb where you now sit and decry the dangerous city. I truly hope that the drivel you've been spitting out doesn't discourage anybody from visiting one of the world's great cities.I lived in Chicago for 18 years 79th and Pulaski
Now I'm wondering how many of those homicides were illicit drug traffickers shooting it out amongst themselves...