Dallas crime rate again tops among largest cities

[rainbow4321]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D88TT6U02.html


The city's crime rate was the highest among nine U.S. cities with more than a million residents for the seventh consecutive year in 2004, according to police statistics examined by The Dallas Morning News.

The top ranking comes despite an overall four percent drop in the city's crime rate last year. But that fall was offset by even greater drops in the other eight cities whose statistics were compared.

Most of the crimes reported involved burglaries, auto break-ins of similar nonviolent property theft. But the city's murder rate crept up to No. 2 among the cities, with 20 murders per 100,000 residents, behind only Philadelphia, which reported 22 murders per 100,000 residents.

The other cities in the analysis were Phoenix, San Antonio, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego and New York.

[StClone]

1. They obviously need more guns

Guns are the cure for everything.