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Old 08-01-2010, 07:00 PM
PiKA2001 PiKA2001 is offline
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Originally Posted by KSig RC View Post
Those stats are essentially meaningless without accounting for causation/correlation problems, though.
I was thinking that when they compared the current violent crime stats of Detroit, which has been economically depressed for generations, to San Antonio, which has economically grown by leaps and bounds during the last decade. I think San Antonios lower crime rate has more to do with the economic opportunities available for it's residents than anything else.

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