Minneapolis among the worst major cities for crime
I saw a local advocacy group tweet out a factoid that I just knew had to be wrong.
It was a right-leaning group called the Minnesota Action Network, and while I am very sympathetic to its causes I thought they had to be gaslighting us.
Yes, I do fact-check my allies when I can. Otherwise, I could wind up repeating things that are excessively “spun” or outright false, and I hate to look stupid by doing so. I make enough stupid mistakes on my own, thank you!
Nope. They weren’t. The comparisons are actually worse than they imply.
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Minneapolis is off the charts, almost literally, in violent crime. About 30% higher than Chicago, the next most violent city. Portland comes in third, then New York and San Francisco come in last with much less than half the violent crime of Minneapolis.
Yikes! My city is twice as dangerous as New York City. How’s that for a slap in the face?
We have almost 4x times the murder rate of New York City and are worse than Chicago. Rape? Dramatically worse here than elsewhere. Robbery? Ditto. Assault–yep, we’re tops among these cities by a wide margin.
