On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 05:51:12 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:46:46 GMT, Carl Byrns
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:19:37 GMT, Gunner
wrote:


Sounds like NY State is a dangerous place to live if the predators are
not allowed to be thinned out.

But it's not. Crime in NYC and Buffalo (the big stats makers) is down.

Down from what?

From The Bad Old Days when much of NYC (like Times Square) was a
hooker and drug dealer heaven. Buffalo was pretty violent for a while
there, too.
I live near Syracuse, a city of about 100,000 that has a higher murder
rate than NYC. That shouild change- a huge gang just went up the river
for a long time, and the police are leaning hard on the other gangs.

As of 2001, New York State is way down on the list of violent crime
states (D.C. has pole position). In fact, NY is parked between Arizona
and Oklahoma, at least according to one source:
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Health+Sta tus&subcategory=Violent+Crime&topic=Violent+Crime+ Offenses


-Carl