Each year, US News and World Report lists the 25 most dangerous cities in the United States.
President Trump made news this week when he announced that he was federalizing the Metro DC police department. Judge Jeanine made news saying that she was not interested in "root causes", that her while job was prosecuting criminals and making victims whole. Evidently, roving gangs of unsupervised youth have become a problem, committing crimes that the "juvenile Justice" system is either unable or unwilling to prosecute.
The issue for juvenile crime is not what the system treats. The issue is parenting. Parenting is hard. I know that I did crazy stuff when I was a kid, and I know that my kids did crazy stuff when they were kids. Yet, I had good parents and my kids had good parents. My parents were responsible for me, and I was responsible for my kids. It works out well like that.
Changing gears to make a metaphor, if I had a vicious dog and let him roam freely, than I have no doubt that when that dog hurt someone, the police would soon be at my door to hold me accountable. Likewise, parents should be held accountable for the actions of the child.
Imagine my surprise when I read the US News list of dangerous cities, and I found my hometown, Alexandria, LA, listed in #6. A small metro in central Louisiana of about 45,000 folks. Wow. Who is responsible for a city making the list? That is easy.
The Mayor. The mayor is the chief executive, responsible for everything that happens or fails to happen. The mayor sets the tone for the local police department.
The Sheriff. The sheriff is the elected law enforcement officer in the parish. While the mayor controls the local police, the sheriff is still the elected cop running the parish. He can augment or take over the law enforcement in the whole parish.
The District Attorney. The District Attorney is the prosecutor. That is his sole job.
Crime is a problem. The reason I don't live in Alexandria any more is because crime got too bad 20 years ago. The lected leaders let too many people get away with too much. It's time to crack down hard and make Rapides Parsh a safe place to live and work.
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Not to be an A-hole, but Biden's administration "relaxed" reporting requirements. It is impossible to know how bad crime is in any city because they were tacitly encouraged to not report if the numbers were bad.
There is no point in having a measurement system if it is corrupted. There is no profit in comparing numbers when your "inch" and "yard" and "mile" have no relationship with my "inch" and "yard" and "mile".
Graph violent rates per ethnicity, and graph out-of-wedlock birth rates by ethnicity.
The graphs track.
What this infers is that the higher the incidence of out-of-wedlock birth rate, the higher the violent crime rate.
That supports your statement regarding parenting.
The entire state has problems... And a lot of that falls on the previous 'administration' of the state...
Three cities from LA in the top 10. Can’t say I’m surprised about that. I am slightly surprised Alex beat out Lake Charles though.
Some of the names on that list really surprised me, too! We all know that any large metro-sized city area is going to have a lot of crime issues because of all the.... Amish, that live there. So those names are no surprise. But 3 different cities in Ohio made the list, that is shocking, and you'd think being such a large tourist destination that Myrtle Beach, SC would do a better job?
Interesting too looking at the median home value in each of the cities. Again, some stuff just doesn't add up?!
Oit of wedlock is one thing but the best track may be single parent (no dad) households. As a subset of your ethnic correlation; my guess is the number is around 80%.
Florida didn't make the list this year!
I guess the criminals can't crim through the rivers of blood in the streets from all the guns.
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