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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", sykesix asked the members: "What do you do if you arrive early at movie besides go to the snack bar?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: bighairymike ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: We're Never Voting' For Him Again
Date: 04/02/24 10:16 AM
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>>>Let's ignore your limp attempt to shift the discussion to rural states and just zoom into where I live. You know, the place that's made headlines that people like you ignore. - Dope<<<

OK, lets. (And before I start I’m sorry that you live in such a dysfunctional area. Not my fault. Could be yours, I don’t know.)

Seattle: Homicides in 2023: 3.74 per 100,000.
Mobile, AL. 20.17 per 100,000
San Francisco: 6.35 per 100,000
San Diego: 2.46

Here, a whole chart. Includes other violent crimes, rapes, aggravated assault, robberies for your listening and dancing pleasure. - GH

en.wikipedia.org - List of United States cities by crime rate


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Nice chart, ten recs, face it Dope, you have been vanquished.

Seattle: Homicides in 2023: 3.74 per 100,000.
Mobile, AL. 20.17 per 100,000
San Francisco: 6.35 per 100,000
San Diego: 2.46


Yep, right there in the chart, murders per 100K in the fifth column, Seattle, 3.74; Mobile 20.13 (GH typo as 20.17): San Fran 6.35

What I don't see, that the ten recs people apparently do, is that this snapshot says anything about the trend under Biden or any time frame for that matter.

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Then there is this, the data is from 2019

>>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system.<<

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Then there is this. the rankings "represent an irresponsible misuse of the data" and that it "fails to account for the many conditions affecting crime rates."

>>In November 2007, the executive board of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) went further than the FBI itself, and approved a resolution opposing not only the use of the ratings to judge police departments, but also any development of city crime rankings from FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs) at all. The resolution opposed these rankings on the grounds that they "fail to account for the many conditions affecting crime rates" and "divert attention from the individual and community characteristics that elevate crime in all cities", though it did not provide sources or further elaborate on these claims. The resolution states the rankings "represent an irresponsible misuse of the data and do groundless harm to many communities" and "work against a key goal of our society, which is a better understanding of crime-related issues by both scientists and the public<<

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