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Unique-Public-8594 t1_ixt1u8t wrote

Quick facts:

6700 Linmore Ave

8p

Un-named victim at the time of this writing.

Friday evening.

Gunshot wound in her back. Expected to recover.

No one in custody.

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Kelzybaby4U t1_ixu5rii wrote

They said that they just dropped off a bus load of illegal aliens in Philadelphia today!! Hope it's not in response with this happening..

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art-man_2018 t1_ixudus4 wrote

Stop watching Tucker Carlson, your sanity will resume again. Your welcome.

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YamPsychological9471 t1_ixu88tz wrote

It’s a good thing we aren’t in one of those Bible Belt states where gun death rates are 20 - 25 per 100k people, huh. I couldn’t imagine how terrifying it must be to live in a state like Mississippi or Louisiana where gun death rates are so high.

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Kabloosh75 t1_ixub7b7 wrote

You do know your risk of being shot goes up based more on where you live.

What sort of group do you hang out with? That will bump up the risk.

What sort of activities do you partake in? That will shoot it up even higher.

Do you have beef with some sort of dude from another group?

Louisiana likely is tilted due to New Orleans. Cities tend to be just hot boxes with pockets of high violence. That violence tends to come from a very small subset of individuals within segments of some communities. If you wanted to be effective against violent crime rates you wouldn't be looking at holistic numbers across a whole state but be targeting these individuals who are the source of a lot of this violence.

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ScrappleOnToast t1_ixueovk wrote

Nope. New Orleans isn’t driving the murder rate in Louisiana. Similarly, crime and murder rates in PA aren’t led by Philly. “….. even if New Orleans were removed from Louisiana’s count, the state would have recorded the nation’s highest or second-highest murder rate in 12 of the last 15 years.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/upshot/why-does-louisiana-consistently-lead-the-nation-in-murders.html

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Kabloosh75 t1_ixul26i wrote

Since you like to provide articles with a pay wall I'll provide this as a reference instead.

The link I provided goes into detail of how rates can be inflated due to areas like retail shops being as areas with increased violence as well as parks.

Rates can be misleading when you got 1 crime happening in a town of 100 versus 1000 crimes happening in a city with 1 million people.

Especially since even my link only breaks it down to county. There could be literally a 100k in one of these counties where 99% of the town is completely fine but half of all the crime happens in that county could be happening in a small section of town.

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ScrappleOnToast t1_ixundx4 wrote

Are you telling me that here in 2022, you don’t know any workarounds for paywalls? FFS, I’m in my 60s and I can figure it out. Read the article, and stop moving the goal posts. You said that Louisiana’s high murder rate was tilted by New Orleans. It’s not. It has nothing to do with skewed stats and outliers.

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YamPsychological9471 t1_ixupkxy wrote

I don’t understand your logic. The example you provide between a population of 100 with 1 crime vs. a population of 1million with 1000 crimes shows that the smaller population has 10x the crime rate.

You are statistically more likely to be a victim of crime where the crime rate is 1% vs .1%. Just because the absolute numbers are bigger doesn’t make them scarier. It shows there’s something different between the populations causing the difference in the rates.

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Kabloosh75 t1_ixupp5d wrote

If we focus on crime rate only would you invest more resources to stop that 1 crime or would you invest the resources to stop the 1000 crimes?

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YamPsychological9471 t1_ixur2oa wrote

Are you asking me what I would personally do? That sounds like a false dichotomy.

Or are you asking in what scenario more resources would be used to address the crime? It’d be absolutely more resources to stop the 1000 crimes, but relatively more resources to stop the 1 crime (per capita).

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YamPsychological9471 t1_ixuekbf wrote

My comment was a tongue in cheek response to the L post from the user above.

Philly has over 1 million people. New Orleans has < 400k. By your logic, why wouldn't PA have more violent crimes per capita? PA also has Pittsburgh. PA even shares borders with other large cities in neighboring states.

The great thing about per capita statistics is that it reveals trends. Isn't it interesting that a certain group of states tend to be worse in violence, poverty, and need for federal money? It suggests a systemic failing of the states as a whole. I wonder what systems these states share that citizens living there are subjected to.

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AbsentEmpire t1_iy09bnl wrote

They're not here illegally genius, they're here on request for asylum, which is a legal status. Until their court date to hear their request they're legally allowed to reside in the country.

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