12/2 Hey as long as i'm bringing purged motd items back to life..
Does anyone have any statistics comparing per captia crime
rates by population density?
\_ let me ask you a question. If you're walking down a dark street
at night, do you feel safer when you see lots of cars on the road,
or when you see lots of other pedestrians? Do you feel safer
seeing a squad car drive by, or actually seeing a cop out on the
beat? I claim that throwing idiotic car cities like LA and pheonix
together with real cities like chicago or seattle and comparing them
with rich suburbs misses the point. Car culture leads to
an impersonal, anonymus society, which leads to not only crime, but
lonelines and misery which you can't quantify with your
statistics.
\_ The answer you think is correct is correct. But, walking down
a deserted street in SF in the middle of the night i am way
more on my gaurd than I would be on a similarly deserted street
in a (much poorer) rural area. Cities are much richer than
rural areas on average, but, again, I bet densely populated
cities have much higher per capita rates of violent crimes.
(now, that by no means would establish causality between
poplation density and crime, as there are confounding factors,
but still... "Animals can be driven insane by placing too many
of them into too small a space...")
Also there is a number of famous cases where a person is being
brutally attacked over a long and well populated distance, in
places like NY, with no one interferring or calling the police.
This sort of think does not happen in rural areas. (that is, if
people see you in trouble, they will help a *much* higher % of
the time.)
\_ I have never felt safer having seen a cop. If i was female I
would probably feel differently.
\_ A mugger can only steal what you have on you at the time.
The police are under no such restriction.
\_ A mugger can kill you. I suppose it's not stealing, but
makes you lose everything.
\_ It's a hell of a thing to kill a man. You take away
everything he's got, and everything he's ever going
to have. - William Munny |
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