Correlation
It’s funny. It happens every year. Remember the list that ranked cities by violent crime? Somebody always says something like notice how so many are southern? or that they’re mostly all red states. As though that proves that we red state yokels are all violent. Turns out, all 15 of the top cities in that list went blue.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Isn’t Detroit rather high on that list? (Not that that’s a good thing.)
While there are Red/Repub areas in Michigan, D-town isn’t. And Michigan hasn’t supported a Repub. Presidential candidate in the Electoral College since 1988.
What I wonder is, where is Chicago in that violent-cities list?
April 30th, 2009 at 3:25 am
Chicago will never make those lists, and there’s a simple reason why.
Chicago does not submit statistics for rape to the FBI. Because of this, there is no way to compare its violent crime to other cities. As a result, Chicago conveniently never makes any of the lists that involve violent crime statistics.