Dallas Is Number 1

[Seakony]

NEW YORK – FBI statistics show Dallas had the highest crime rate among the nation's largest cities last year.
The FBI Uniform Crime Report found about one crime was reported in Dallas last year for every 12 people.
The Dallas totals included 202 murder and manslaughter cases, 562 forcible rapes, 6,882 robberies and 7,783 aggravated assaults.
The FBI report showed that Houston had the state's greatest number of violent crimes in 2005—23,987—followed by Dallas, with 15,429; San Antonio, with 8,007; and Fort Worth, with 3,920.
New York remained the safest of the nation's ten largest cities in 2005, with about one crime reported for every 37 people.
San Jose took the No. 2 spot, followed by Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, San Antonio, Phoenix and Dallas.
The national figures showed that violent crime rose 2.3 percent last year, the first increase since 2001.

Nation's 10 largest cities in 2005, in order of safety:
1. New York: one crime per 37.38 residents.
2. San Jose, Calif.: one crime per 34.46 residents.
3. Los Angeles: one crime per 25.97 residents.
4. San Diego: one crime per 24.09 residents.
5. Chicago: one crime per 21.9 residents.
6. Philadelphia: one crime per 17.96 residents.
7. Houston: one crime per 14.17 residents.
8. San Antonio: one crime per 14.12 residents.
9. Phoenix: one crime per 14.10 residents.
10. Dallas: one crime per 11.79 residents.

[Seakony]

I have a few theories about this but I will remain PC on this.

[tgd156]

DAMN...i am moving to dallas. seems that's where all the action is...!

heather graham..damn!!!!

[MaripositaII]

Those darn cowboys just can't handle their alcohol, can they? Oh and their guns

[Seakony]

I took a look at the website the FbI had this on and found a huge flaw....not about the crime but who is committing the crimes... seems the broke it down into ethnics..white, black, asian, South pacific. Seems they left out a big race or lumped them into the black and white.

[MaripositaII]

Originally Posted by Seakony

I took a look at the website the FbI had this on and found a huge flaw....not about the crime but who is committing the crimes... seems the broke it down into ethnics..white, black, asian, South pacific. Seems they left out a big race or lumped them into the black and white.

Now, now.

[SunKneeMarie]

Originally Posted by Seakony

I took a look at the website the FbI had this on and found a huge flaw....not about the crime but who is committing the crimes... seems the broke it down into ethnics..white, black, asian, South pacific. Seems they left out a big race or lumped them into the black and white.

depends on how they were defining "races"

[bufante]

I bet Dog the Bounty Hunter could make some money there!

[Seakony]

Originally Posted by SunKneeMarie

depends on how they were defining "races"

Here is a chart they use...see anybody missing?

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_43.html

[MaripositaII]

Originally Posted by Seakony

Here is a chart they use...see anybody missing?

http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/data/table_43.html

Since you think a group is, why don't you just say it?

[attaboy]

OK, I will. Why would there be no "hispanic"?

[Davev]

You know this one is gonna go south purty quick..

[Mikey]

Originally Posted by Davev

You know this one is gonna go south purty quick..

No they are coming from the south purty quick.......

[SunKneeMarie]

Hispanic is not a race, it's an ethnicity. It would be included under "White." I've seen it on my husband's birth certificate.


edit: interestingly, when I just looked at all of the birth certificates (they haven't made it back to the SD box and are still in the desk here) it shows for race on my husband's birth certificate as "white" and for each of his parents as "white." Nothing further.

Now for the kids, when it asks for race it still says "white" but for the parents, when you list "white" it asks if the parent is Hispanic and what "type."

So a generation ago, listing "white" was enough... now they ask for the breakdown UNDER white... but white is still the race.

[MargaritaLupita]

It’s the lousy beer I was there for only an hour and I wanted to fight someone.