Someone in there made the reasonable observation that higher population densities have higher crime rates and asked if there were any examples of a large city with Republicans in charge where things got better and they cited Rudy Guliani lmao
They also did that thing where they cite rural Appalachia as being poor but a low crime rate (the implication being poor white people behave themselves). Does anyone know more about this than I do? My gut assumption is rural Appalachia has fewer worthwhile crimes to commit, no established gangs, and everything's too far apart to even do petty crimes.
I live there and yea it's pretty safe (you can leave your car key in your car overnight and never worry), we used to not even lock the doors at night. Most crimes are crimes against the state, hell moonshine used to be very popular here until just a few decades ago. But once you get to the really poverty striken areas the crime goes up like crazy. The super poor that people think of don't live here anymore. Living off of the land like they used to is just not feasible these days.
My gut assumption is rural Appalachia has fewer worthwhile crimes to commit, no established gangs, and everything’s too far apart to even do petty crimes.
The murder rate is genuinely lower. Robbery rates are obviously lower because there's less opportunites for muggings (though liquor stores and such still get held up). Other crimes, it's tough to say because the less serious the crime, the more subject statistics are to bias in local police forces. It's impossible to determine how many petty crimes get dismissed by local sheriffs because it's "so and so's boys just playing around" that would end up with a serious charge if it were some black kid in a big city. Basically everywhere in rural Appalachia has less violence than Philadelphia or New Orleans, but "less crime" is loaded.
I think that has more to do with it being a rural area. If you look at the so called black belt, rural South Carolina, rural Mississippi, rural Louisiana etc are not really places where the violence of cities occurrs either in the popular imagination. Unless we’re talking racial violence against black people
Someone in there made the reasonable observation that higher population densities have higher crime rates and asked if there were any examples of a large city with Republicans in charge where things got better and they cited Rudy Guliani lmao
They also did that thing where they cite rural Appalachia as being poor but a low crime rate (the implication being poor white people behave themselves). Does anyone know more about this than I do? My gut assumption is rural Appalachia has fewer worthwhile crimes to commit, no established gangs, and everything's too far apart to even do petty crimes.
I live there and yea it's pretty safe (you can leave your car key in your car overnight and never worry), we used to not even lock the doors at night. Most crimes are crimes against the state, hell moonshine used to be very popular here until just a few decades ago. But once you get to the really poverty striken areas the crime goes up like crazy. The super poor that people think of don't live here anymore. Living off of the land like they used to is just not feasible these days.
It's all about poverty, period.
Isn't moonshine that thing where you show your butt trought the window of your car?
I genuinely cannot tell if this is a joke
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5pM1HXxlI
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-30-mn-2473-story.html
https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Officials-offer-5000-reward-in-finding-Eastern-Kentucky-copper-thief-465493683.html
https://wset.com/news/local/copper-theft-inside-an-aep-substation-leads-to-widespread-power-outage
Yeah I might have been taking the claim "there's less crime in rural Appalachia" at face value. Is that even true?
The murder rate is genuinely lower. Robbery rates are obviously lower because there's less opportunites for muggings (though liquor stores and such still get held up). Other crimes, it's tough to say because the less serious the crime, the more subject statistics are to bias in local police forces. It's impossible to determine how many petty crimes get dismissed by local sheriffs because it's "so and so's boys just playing around" that would end up with a serious charge if it were some black kid in a big city. Basically everywhere in rural Appalachia has less violence than Philadelphia or New Orleans, but "less crime" is loaded.
I think that has more to do with it being a rural area. If you look at the so called black belt, rural South Carolina, rural Mississippi, rural Louisiana etc are not really places where the violence of cities occurrs either in the popular imagination. Unless we’re talking racial violence against black people