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Lisa Croucher's avatar

but, the real question is:

are you picking your feet in poughkeepsie?

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Steven Klein's avatar

Tommy Tuberville is one to talk about safety. Newsflash (quoting AI): "Generally, New York City has a lower crime rate than Alabama, especially when considering homicide rates." Ditto Andy Ogles: "Generally, New York City has a lower violent crime rate compared to the state of Tennessee as a whole. Specific cities within Tennessee, like Memphis, can have significantly higher violent crime rates than New York City." How long can Republicans from far more violent states and cities (including the VP) get away with baldfaced lies about NYC being more dangerous than their own home states or home towns? Apparently a long time, when they can also convince the working class to vote for them, only to turn around and deprive millions of these working class voters of their Medicaid.

The ratio of immigrants in NYC at the peaks and valleys of crime is a brilliant point that will also be unfortunately lost among all those who irrationally fear immigration.

One note about murders that I learned from an episode of Malcolm Galdwell's Revisionist History is that a significant reason why murder rates have gone down is because the medical establishment has gotten so much better at evacuating shooting/stabbing victims and providing them with life-saving care, including the advent of 911. So, it's problematic to compare murder statistics over time, only gun crime statistics. But you can compare murder statistics between cities and states, and as we see, NYC is much safer than Alabama, Tennessee or Toledo, OH.

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