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Donald Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who spent years as the Senator from Alabama, accused New York City cops last week of being “soft on crime.”
While I was living in New York City, I felt far safer than I ever did in Washington, DC. And, I never felt unsafe, even late at night. I can’t say that about DC. But what about Alabama?
I checked the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, the Bible of crime statistics. The latest stats are for the first half of 2016, and they show that the largest city in Alabama, Huntsville, is far more dangerous than New York City, by a factor of 2 to 3, depending on the crime.
Here are the states, followed by some discussion. For comparison sake, I show the raw crime stats, followed by the number of crimes per 100,000 residents.
So, what does this data tell us? Looking at the 2016 data:
Violent crime: You are 1.7x more likely to be a victim of a violent crime in Huntsville than in NYC.
Murder: You are 2.5x more likely to be murdered in Huntsville than NYC.
Rape: You are 3x more likely to be raped in Huntsville than NYC.
Robbery: You are 1.3x more likely to be robbed in Huntsville than NYC.
So, it would appear that Alabama could learn a thing or two from New Yorker. How not to be murdered, robbed or raped, among them.
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