It happens in other Cities

[MichMatters]

Really, what was the point of this thread. "It happens in other cities" only needs to be brought up when someone is exaggerating the danger of one place over another [[and that does happen around here, quite a bit), but this seems in response to absolutely nothing, a silly little piece of pre-emptive ranting. Unless someone is exaggerating the dangers of Detroit, I couldn't care less what is happening in other cities as far as crime and danger are concerned.

I've been to North Las Vegas. By metro Vegas standards, it's bad. But, let's just be clear about something. North Las Vegas' murder rate per 100,000 people was 4.8 in 2008. Detroit's has consistently been at or over 40. North Las Vegas' total violent crime rate per 100,000 people was 709 last year; Detroit's was nearly 2,000. Let's get real.

[MJCMEX]

Really, what was the point of this thread. "It happens in other cities" only needs to be brought up when someone is exaggerating the danger of one place over another [[and that does happen around here, quite a bit), but this seems in response to absolutely nothing, a silly little piece of pre-emptive ranting. Unless someone is exaggerating the dangers of Detroit, I couldn't care less what is happening in other cities as far as crime and danger are concerned.

I've been to North Las Vegas. By metro Vegas standards, it's bad. But, let's just be clear about something. North Las Vegas' murder rate per 100,000 people was 4.8 in 2008. Detroit's has consistently been at or over 40. North Las Vegas' total violent crime rate per 100,000 people was 709 last year; Detroit's was nearly 2,000. Let's get real.

You can't go by statistics to measure the murder rate of Las Vegas. That is well known among people who LIVE in Las Vegas. You have no idea how much control the casinos have over reporting that kind of information. Hit the police blotters. They are much more accurate.

I am also not ranting nor am I saying that the murder rate of North Las Vegas is anywhere near as bad as Detroit.

What I am saying is that violent crime does happen elsewhere. I meant it as an objective statement. If violence in other cities doesn't interest you, fine ignore my post. I have to ask the same question however that I asked the othe poster, though I do recognize that your post is a bit more measured and less hostile:

Do you want people such as myself to move to Detroit in order to help revitalize the city, or do you just want to scare us away by saying "It's the worst place in the world, don't bother to move here."?

It's your call.

[Retroit]

MJCMEX, feel free to be selective in the posts that you respond to.

The murderer in Las Vegas went on his shooting spree because he believed that his Social Security check was reduced because he was black. I wonder how much race-based anger is provoked by the so-called black leaders, who continue to spread their lies about some great white conspiracy against blacks. Could we not consider this backlash a form of terrorism? If militant Islamics can be classified as terrorists, why not militant blacks?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-a...,6527336.story

[MJCMEX]

MJCMEX, feel free to be selective in the posts that you respond to.

The murderer in Las Vegas went on his shooting spree because he believed that his Social Security check was reduced because he was black. I wonder how much race-based anger is provoked by the so-called black leaders, who continue to spread their lies about some great white conspiracy against blacks. Could we not consider this backlash a form of terrorism? If militant Islamics can be classified as terrorists, why not militant blacks?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-a...,6527336.story

Good advice

I didn't know it before I moved here but Las Vegas had the reputation at one time as being the "Mississippi of the West" in terms of segregation. A lot of that tension still exists. This guy to me is an extreme example, perhaps paranoid.
By the same token he had his benefits cut by about $550. That is pretty tough.

What can really drive people over the edge here is that whole "you have to know someone" to get a job bit. It is most likely the opposite issue that Detroit has. We have plenty of people and a need for plenty of services, but some of the most incompetent people are hired for jobs while others are passed over because the don't know the "right people".

I am not just talking about the Casinos. This goes on at Wal Mart.

Unless I am mistaken Detroit seems to be suffering from a lack of people, competent or otherwise.

I have no patience for people of color who blame everything that goes wrong in their lives upon "racism". I am Mexican American so you had better believe I have experienced real discrimination before. That does not give me the right to go shoot up a court house. I agree with you, and I would add that if any profiling happens it should be based upon extreme behavior and skin color should not be an issue one way or the other.

And for the guy with the "Bentley Pinto" comparison I have to say that Vegas is at best Chevy Nova. It doesn't blow up on contact, but it still has many problems under the hood.

The old Chicano joke: Never name a Car "No-Va"