Stig Östlund

söndag, juni 16, 2013

Murdertown, USA



Flint, Mich.



Wikimedia/Andrew Jameson
62 murders per 100,000 people
106 forcible rapes per 100,000 people
662 robberies per 100,000 people
Flint has had financial trouble since General Motors shut down a number of plants there. Its woes were the subject of Flint native Michael Moore's depressing 1989 documentary "Roger and Me."
More recently, in 2011, The New York Times Magazine called flint "Murdertown, USA" because of its high murder rate.
Data provided by the FBI's preliminary 2012 unified crime reportt. The cities' murder (including nonnegligent manslaughter), rape, and robbery rates were compared against 2011 national averages, with the percent deviations averaged to determine overall ranking for violent crime.


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