Paris Knife Attack: Man Shot Dead After Stabbing Bystanders

[bcking 3,157]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

Well that was not the reason.

It should be the very first thing you ask yourself before you post or share something.

 

If it's not true, it probably shouldn't be mentioned. Otherwise you are perpetuating "fake news". I assume we all don't want that right?

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2 minutes ago, bcking said:

It should be the very first thing you ask yourself before you post or share something.

 

If it's not true, it probably shouldn't be mentioned. Otherwise you are perpetuating "fake news". I assume we all don't want that right?

I have ever done that, sadly others seem less discerning.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

I have ever done that, sadly others seem less discerning.

Well there goes the cnn links LOL

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

America’s 25 Murder Capitals

 

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/11/13/americas-25-murder-capitals-2/2/

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12 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Well there goes the cnn links LOL

Well not if you want to give some excellent fake news examples.

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16 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

America’s 25 Murder Capitals

 

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/11/13/americas-25-murder-capitals-2/2/

NB - My point was you have to go WAY WAY further down the list of US cities to find any that compare with London, the largest metropolis in Europe.

 

As already mentioned - 73 cities have higher murder rates than London. I wouldn't consider that just "a few locations" that make us seem worse as you suggested previously. That is practically every city with a population greater than 250,000 (It's around 92%).

 

 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Map: The black homicide rate in (almost) every state

 

Interesting Read 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/01/14/map-the-black-homicide-rate-in-almost-every-state/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.de8fce0cd655

 

" Despite making up roughly 1 in 12 Americans, blacks accounted for half of all homicides."

Edited May 14, 2018 by Nature Boy Flair

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57 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Map: The black homicide rate in (almost) every state

 

Interesting Read 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/01/14/map-the-black-homicide-rate-in-almost-every-state/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.de8fce0cd655

 

" Despite making up roughly 1 in 12 Americans, blacks accounted for half of all homicides."

Presumably those are just the ones killed by the Police?

 

#BLM

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

5 hours ago, bcking said:

You probably shouldn't mention it also because it's not true.

76 or 83 out of 35,000.  Seems like a pretty small amount to me.

 

0.23% or thereabouts. 

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1 hour ago, IDWAF said:

76 or 83 out of 35,000.  Seems like a pretty small amount to me.

 

0.23% or thereabouts. 

What is 35,000? What are your numbers?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

1 hour ago, bcking said:

What is 35,000? What are your numbers?

The number of cities in the US.

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3 minutes ago, IDWAF said:

The number of cities in the US.

Ah...the US has a pretty lame definition of cities then.

 

The top 100 cities hold around 25% of our population. The top 76 or whatever the number was likely has around 20% of our population. All of those places have higher murder rated than London. London, a city of 8 million+.

 

Few is still not the right word in this case. These cities aren't outliers. 

 

Edit: also what are you even using to define cities? Even down to 10,000 people the number if incorporated places is 1,555.

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241695/number-of-us-cities-towns-villages-by-population-size/

 

Edited May 15, 2018 by bcking

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

2 hours ago, bcking said:

Ah...the US has a pretty lame definition of cities then.

 

The top 100 cities hold around 25% of our population. The top 76 or whatever the number was likely has around 20% of our population. All of those places have higher murder rated than London. London, a city of 8 million+.

 

Few is still not the right word in this case. These cities aren't outliers. 

 

Edit: also what are you even using to define cities? Even down to 10,000 people the number if incorporated places is 1,555.

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241695/number-of-us-cities-towns-villages-by-population-size/

 

When I did the search earlier, the link was on the first google page.  Now it is not, so I cannot link you to it, sorry.

But I found this one the second time around.  Slightly smaller in total numbers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241695/number-of-us-cities-towns-villages-by-population-size/. 

 

Density - http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/

Edited May 15, 2018 by IDWAF

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7 hours ago, IDWAF said:

When I did the search earlier, the link was on the first google page.  Now it is not, so I cannot link you to it, sorry.

But I found this one the second time around.  Slightly smaller in total numbers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241695/number-of-us-cities-towns-villages-by-population-size/. 

 

Density - http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/

The US is incredibly leniant with the word city it seems. Comparisons are hard since the UK is on the opposite end (places technically aren't cities unless they have cathedrals and there is a special ordinance establishing them as a city. So there are some large places that aren't cities).

 

I think the better comparison would be percentage of the population. As I said those 76 or so cities with higher murder rated account for around 20% of our US popular. That is hardly just a few outliers. Yes sure there are plenty of rural areas with lower murder rates but that will be true everywhere. I wasn't comparing them to farmland in England. I was comparing them to London.

 

Lubbock Texas has a higher murder rate than London (or close to the same). That is crazy if you ask me. Lubbock is tiny.

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Or Plano Texas. Never even heard of it. Murder rate is 1.73. London is 1.8.

 

Plano has ~260,000 with a population density of 3629 per square mile.

 

London has around 8.8 million with a population density of 14,500 per square mile.

 

Plano isn't alone either. Definitely not an outlier.