safest and least safe cities in the country released

[xfer]

when we were in camden, we would always joke "at least detroit is more dangerous! ha ha ha!"

no longer.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/22/dangerous.cities.ap/index.html

MOST DANGEROUS
1. Camden, New Jersey
2. Detroit, Michigan
3. Atlanta, Georgia
4. St. Louis, Missouri
5. Gary, Indiana


SAFEST
1. Newton, Massachusetts
2. Brick Township, New Jersey
3. Amherst, New Jersey
4. Mission Viejo, California
5. Clarkstown, New York

now i work in newton! sooo i'm moving up in the world, i guess.

 

[mindspell]

What's in Camden?

 

[xfer]

ummm an abandoned campbell's soup factory, i think. lots of slums. a giant music venue which is billed worldwide as being "in Philadelphia" even though it's technically in Camden (it's across the river) because nobody would go if it was "in Camden".

 

[xfer]

also, lots of tattered posters that read "I SAW A CITY...INVINCIBLE". with bullet holes in them.

 

[FrostGiant]

I find it hard to believe that Detroit is that dangerous.

Sincerely,

The Indiana Pacers

 

[lizard]

haha good one

 

[minxnim]

what the.,... how the hell did newton become a city?

 

[xfer]

what did it used to be?

p.s. i am in chestnut hill right now (an area of newton) and i'll be going to my friend tom's house tonight (deep in newton center). maybe i'll walk down the street waving wads of hundreds and cut through dark alleys and otherwise flaunt my immunity to crime in the safest city of one of the safest nations in the world.

p.p.s. humorously, tom is the gun nut and has a cabinet full of weaponry just in case he gets burgled. in newton.

 

[lizard]

wtf tom must be the reason Newton is the safest! nobody'd want to fuck with him or his neighbors!!, cause of his awesome manly reputation.

 

[xfer]

thankfully this isn't England, and it's actually legal for tom to use his weapons on an intruder who is simultaneously shooting at him, sweeping electronics equipment into a sack, and raping his wife.

 

[lizard]

instead, he's the one raping his wife, mentally and physically, because that's what a testosterone-laden man is supposed to do.

 

[xfer]

um there's no way Tom wears the pants in that relationship.

there is a reason we call his fiance Amanda "Demanda".

 

[chupe666]

dood, all the criminals n thugz wait for this cnn report every year to see where the least amount of competition is at. then they move there. so newton's in trouble.

and how is it possible that stl is worse that GARY? detroit is dangerous just driving through- all of it. there wasn't a safe place at all as far as i recall. stl is bad on the east side, but all the rest is fine. well, the north is kinda bad too.

 

[lizard]

whoops...I thought Tom was the hunting with a scoped shotgun guy.

 

[Josh Seipp]

no tom is the karate master badass lawyer dungeon master right?

 

[The Dope]

I'm kind of surprised Richmond didn't make the list, with it's excessively high murder rate and all. I guess that a lot of the other types of crimes must be significantly lower than those in the cities listed, but in terms of murders, I think only DC and Detroit surpass Richmond. From the stats I saw, Camden doesn't even come close, though they seem to rape people like it's their job up there, so that might explain it.

 

[xfer]

tom is the karate master badass lawyer dungeon master gun nut guy. he's awesome.

ADAM is the retardo hypermasculine scoped shotgun SPORTS husband guy. tom made fun of his scoped shotgun.

it's easy to remember if you follow my rule of thumb:

People named Adam tend to be douchebags.

this is unfair, I guess, but out of the fourteen or fifteen Adams I've met and remember in my life, EVERY SINGLE ONE EXCEPT FOR ONE has been a tard.

(nause is kind of ruining my rule!)

I don't judge people as tards just because I've found out they're named Adam, but when they do something assholey, I often go "Bingo. Should've known."

I need to meet at least ten awesome Adams and no more douchey ones to change my mind. I don't think that's going to happen.

 

[xfer]

Dope, I think it might be per-capita?

 

[The Dope]

I think the stats I saw were per-capita. Do you think that the ones taken into account for the list were based on total crimes?

 

[The Dope]

I guess it might make sense if they were, as most of the dangerous cities listed are probably quite a bit more populous than Richmond.