by emersonbiggins » Mon 22 Aug 2005, 10:47:07
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Phil', '[')b]25 Most Dangerous American Cities
Black % / White % / Hispanic %
Detroit, MI - 82 / 11 / 5
St. Louis, MO - 51 / 43 / 2
Atlanta, GA - 61 / 31 / 5
Camden, NJ - 53 / 7 / 39
Washington, DC - 60 / 28 / 8
Compton, CA - 40 / 1 / 57
Dayton, OH - 43 / 53 / 2
Baltimore, MD - 64 / 31 / 2
Tampa, FL - 26 / 51 / 20
Gary, IN - 84 / 10 / 5
Memphis, TN - 61 / 33 / 3
North Charleston, SC - 49 / 43 / 4
New Orleans, LA - 67 / 27 / 3
Richmond, VA - 57 / 38 / 3
Trenton, NJ - 52 / 25 / 22
Jackson, MS - 78 / 28 / 1
Cincinnati, OH - 43 / 53 / 1
Youngstown, OH - 44 / 49 / 5
Cleveland, OH - 51 / 39 / 7
Springfield, MA - 21 / 49 / 27
Oakland, CA - 36 / 24 / 22
Birmingham, AL - 74 / 24 / 2
Miami, FL - 22 / 12 / 66
Richmond, CA - 36 / 21 / 27
Reading, PA - 12 / 48 / 37
Anyone see a pattern?
Correlation is not causation. You're basically comparing inner city areas to suburbs and small towns. Yeah, I suppose it's amazing that after years of government-sponsored 'white flight', gov't-sponsored infantilization and inner city school & civic disinvestment, you would naturally breed a crop of welfare-dependent gangsters and thugs. To posit the theory that people of color tend to be more violent without examining causation factors is preposterous.