Originally posted by billeau2
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Here's my source citation, and what they say about the crime rate in Appalachia:
There's not much violent crime here. There's a bit of the usual enterprise one finds everywhere there are drugs and poor people, which is to say, everywhere. But even the crime here is pretty well predictable. The police chief's assistant notes that if they know the nature and location of a particular crime, they can more or less drive straight to the perpetrator.
There's a great deal of drug use, welfare fraud, and the like, but the overall crime rate throughout Appalachia is about two thirds the national average, and the rate of violent crime is half the national average. Booneville Police Chief Johnny Logsdon is justifiably skeptical of the area's reputation for drug-fueled crime. But he is not blinkered. "We have loggers and coal producers," he says. "We have educators and local businesses, and people in the arts. And we have the same problems they have in every community."
https://theweek.com/articles/452321/...g-white-ghetto
I'll be happy to discuss this with anyone, Chollo included, but we have to agree to accept the facts, no matter what they are.
And the fact is that you don't see the same high crime rates in Appalachia that you see in the ghettos.
Again, it is what it is.
If we want to solve any problem, we first must admit and accept that there is a problem.
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