In the News II

Quote: GenoDRPh

Good. Now compare the counterfactual urban areas in Red Counties, Red Governors, Red state legislators and Red State Congressman due to redistricting and overturning certain voting rights laws. Are they more of less dangerous than those areas of Buffalo you describe? Inquiring minds want to know!




Governed by Red State laws, as blue cities don't have Home Rule to determine their own firearms laws or criminal penalties. They aren't city-states.

And, at least as of 2024, crime is going down.

I am agreeing with you on the Red/Blue silliness.
It’s ALL about the demographics of the area. Not about whether the governor is Blue or Red. They can yap about ‘I’ll be tough in crime’ all they want, but no matter who you elect, they won’t be.
Just IN GENERAL, Republicans tend to favor higher bail/longer sentences/increased police presence when compared to Democrats. Democrats tend to favor shorter sentences, lower or NO cash bail, alternatives to real police officers.

Quote: SOOPOO

I am agreeing with you on the Red/Blue silliness.
It’s ALL about the demographics of the area. Not about whether the governor is Blue or Red. They can yap about ‘I’ll be tough in crime’ all they want, but no matter who you elect, they won’t be.
Just IN GENERAL, Republicans tend to favor higher bail/longer sentences/increased police presence when compared to Democrats. Democrats tend to favor shorter sentences, lower or NO cash bail, alternatives to real police officers.

Please explain "It’s ALL about the demographics of the area."

Then explain the relatively low crime in Blue MA and in Blue Boston, compared to other states and cities of similar size.

Quote: SOOPOO

AZ will feel safe in the room in the Red state, because he will avoid the dangerous parts of that Red state. Which coincidentally are where the Blue people reside.

I think you missed the point. If the stats show your odds of getting hurt are 10& in a certain time period in a rural area, that is the worst area, whereas if the odds are only 5% in a city, I can spend all day in Chicago avoiding the worst areas of the urban area also. That doesn't just apply to a rural area.

Some rural area people may go to that one bar in the whole area that exacts the 10% toll over time. Just not everyone goes there, but not everyone is in or goes to the worse places in the urban either.

It would be just as ridiculous to say Israel had a miniscule terror attack because it only involves 200+ some people and NYC had 3000.

I'm seeing a lot of opinions and no sources

Quote: GenoDRPh

Please explain "It’s ALL about the demographics of the area."

Then explain the relatively low crime in Blue MA and in Blue Boston, compared to other states and cities of similar size.

A child could understand it!

Lets just look at homicide, because those that commit homicide other than a crime of passion are committing lesser crimes.

Blacks commit about 54% of all murders in the USA. Blacks are 13% of the population. Blacks are about 19% of Boston vs. 70% or more in many southern cities.

It gets worse when you consider 90% or so of murderers are male and of the female they tend to be more crimes of passion vs. criminal. So we have rounded 7% of the population committing 50% of the murders!

Now, what group should the cops be focusing on?

Of course, not all black males are a problem. Not even most. But there is a core that is a real problem. Instead of new laws, why not some good old school police work, profiling for gang members and criminal behavior? Well, because the locals cry "PROFILING" or something like it. So local pols cry that they need more laws. Gun laws that do nothing but hassle honest gun owners.

Rudy showed in NYC how all of this is possible. But after it gets cleaned up lefties say it is "mean" and we need to stop.

Quote: AZDuffman

Blacks commit about 54% of all murders in the USA. Blacks are 13% of the population. Blacks are about 19% of Boston vs. 70% or more in many southern cities.

FBI crime stats are not reliable. States and Municipalities are not required to report their crime stats to the FBI. They do it on a voluntary basis. NYC, LA and most of Florida don't report any of their stats to the FBI. Philidelpha submits incomplete reports.

Cities rely on tourism and corporate investment. They're not going to report actual crime stats, which will scare tourists and corporate investment away.

That, plus the current office holders want to get re-elected.

"In 2023, the FBI released its annual Crime in the Nation report, showing an estimated 1.7 percent decrease in violent crime in 2022. The Biden-Harris Administration championed the purported decrease, but there was no decrease. The FBI failed to include in its initial count “an additional 1,699 murders, 7,780 rapes, 33,459 robberies, and 37,091 aggravated assaults,” resulting in not a decrease but an increase in violent crime of 4.5 percent in 2022. The FBI quietly revised the report to reflect this increase in violent crime but did not publicize it."

In 2023, 32% of all US police agencies did not submit any of their 2022 crime data to the FBI. Another 24% submitted less than 12 month crime data to the FBI.

'Nearly half of Florida's population excluded from state crime data'

'A rough estimate of 2.1 million crimes in the U.S. will go uncounted due to the lack of reporting, The Marshall Project estimated. For example, Philadelphia's homicides, which hit a historic high in 2021, according to city data, won't be fully captured in the federal data.'

According to the total BS FBI stats, whites committed 8,842 homicides in 2023 and blacks committed 6,405.

Most Wanted lists

https://x.com/nypdtips

https://probation.lacounty.gov/las-most-wanted/

https://phillymostwanted.org/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

https://www.lvmpd.com/services/wanted-fugitives

https://police.boston.gov/category/boston-most-wanted/

https://www.miamidade.gov/global/police/most-wanted-predators.page

https://idoc.illinois.gov/offender/wantedfugitives.html

Quote: AZDuffman

A child could understand it!

Lets just look at homicide, because those that commit homicide other than a crime of passion are committing lesser crimes.

Blacks commit about 54% of all murders in the USA. Blacks are 13% of the population. Blacks are about 19% of Boston vs. 70% or more in many southern cities.

It gets worse when you consider 90% or so of murderers are male and of the female they tend to be more crimes of passion vs. criminal. So we have rounded 7% of the population committing 50% of the murders!

Now, what group should the cops be focusing on?

Of course, not all black males are a problem. Not even most. But there is a core that is a real problem. Instead of new laws, why not some good old school police work, profiling for gang members and criminal behavior? Well, because the locals cry "PROFILING" or something like it. So local pols cry that they need more laws. Gun laws that do nothing but hassle honest gun owners.

Rudy showed in NYC how all of this is possible. But after it gets cleaned up lefties say it is "mean" and we need to stop.

I suppose if I had the time and the energy I'd dispute your post, point by point. But I applaud you for actually attempting to answering the question about why Boston's crime rate is low compared to most of the rest fot he country. SooPoo doesn't even attempt to do that.

More white, less blight.

It's cultural.

Sucks to be black: originally they were slaves; when freed they were hated by the southerners so they either lived in poverty in the south or sought new opportunities in the north, typically working in the myriad factories then popping up everywhere as America industrialized.

But over time America shipped its polluting factories overseas, ending decent employment opportunities for the blacks who once worked there.

In fairness, the exporting of factories / jobs has hurt and will continue to hurt ALL races, but blacks are particularly vulnerable.

It doesn't help that even liberal whites cannot quite get over their "fear" of blacks.

Very sad, actually: without factories and with the advent of AI good employment is and will remain tough to find, especially for the unskilled and poorly educated.

Quote: GenoDRPh

I suppose if I had the time and the energy I'd dispute your post, point by point. But I applaud you for actually attempting to answering the question about why Boston's crime rate is low compared to most of the rest fot he country. SooPoo doesn't even attempt to do that.

Read MrV’s answer. And Tanko’s recent lengthy post. I’ll find some unsafe neighborhoods in Boston. I’ll dare you to walk alone on one of those streets.

Quote: GenoDRPh

......about why Boston's crime rate is low compared to most of the rest fot he country.

Sez who?

Boston's violent crime rate is 64% higher than the national average.

Despite it's small size, except for 2024, that city has historically always had a higher crime rate than NYC.

Boston reported a drop in the number of homicides in 2024, but homicides there are up 54% so far in 2025.

https://www.bestplaces.net/crime/?city1=53651000&city2=52507000

https://www.bestplaces.net/crime/?city1=52507000&city2=54159000