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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is really infuriating the way WHITE PRIVILEDGE plays out in these narratives about crime, suggesting that crime only occurs in urban areas. Far from the truth, there is a lot of crime occurring in white neighborhoods in the 'burbs. During the 1990s it was white college kids that arrived in the night looking for drugs, but when they got busted their Big Daddy Warbucks could bail them out of jail. Whenever, a crime occurs Whites hop on their blogs and talk among themselves about Black guys, crime and "those people" while never looking in their own back yard for all the ish that is stockpiled in their personal lives. If you live in a glass house, don't throw any stones!!![/quote]

No one is suggesting that crime only occurs in urban areas. However it is clear from the statistics that violent crime occurs more in urban areas. Not exclusively, but more.

I live in close-in Bethesda, near metro and the high school. We have a lot of car break-ins. Some house break-ins. A fair amount of retail break-ins. Not that many robberies/assaults of people on the streets, which is most people's fear, I think. Do they happen? Sure. But not with nearly the frequency that they do in any area of DC.  In part it may be a numbers game. There are a lot more people in DC, out at all hours, therefore both more potential perpetrators and more potential victims. But whatever the cause, it is not a myth that violent crime occurs more in urban areas. [/quote]

Most of the crime in bethesda is from the lovely DC criminal taking the metro[/quote]

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