Or, you may look at the demographic differences, given that the crazy-high U.S. homicide rate is an outlier strictly because of a U.S.-specific demographic.
No, this was always the case. Nothing changed.
If you're asking "why does the Western U.S. generally have lower homicide rates than the Eastern U.S."? the answer is demographic differences. Homicides rates are almost exactly correlated with % African American and there are few such communities in the American West.
Agreed.
No. It's race, not poverty. Hispanic Americans are poorer than African Americans but much lower homicide rates. In many big cities like NYC and SF Asians are poorer than blacks but homicide rates among Asians is almost 0.
Poorest areas of the U.S., like Texas borderlands, parts of the Dakotas, West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, tend to have low murder rates. Only exception would be Delta Mississippi, which is overwhelmingly African American.
The most extreme inequality in the U.S. is actually in Coastal CA and NYC. Both areas also have low murder and low overall crime rates. Manhattan, which has the most extreme inequality in the U.S., has a lower murder rate than Toronto.
You really think stuff like family leave drives murder rates? I'm sorry, but that premise is just so very Canadian.
LA basically eviscerated the black ghettos of the 1980's. There are no such neighborhoods left. They're all Mexican or gentrified now. Watts/South Central went from 100% black to 90% Mexican, and murder rate plummeted.
Yes, if Detroit eliminates depressed black neighborhoods, it will massively reduce the murder rate. I don't think an ethnic cleansing platform will gain much traction, though.
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