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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, most of the decline is gang-on-gang violence. So basically my odds of getting killed by a criminal with a gun are still about the same.[/quote] Exactly. This is empirically proven to be true. It's great that gang violence is down. However, my kid's chance of being killed in what we used to think of as a "safe" public space is much higher than it was when we were kids. Unacceptable.[/quote] Link?[/quote] Not that poster, but if you read this report: http://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uploads/research/pdf/0526_metropolitan_crime_kneebone_raphael.pdf You can see the government data shows major drops in violent crime in cities between 1990 and 2008, and increases in violent crime in emerging suburbs and exurbs.[/quote]
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