Tough love you more

Maybe it's cause the early 90s was about the peak of crime rates for most cities nation wide? I can't reminder the exact years but around the peak in NYC (probably late 80s to early 90s) there was something like 2000 murders a year in the city. Now they're usually down to around 400-500 a year. Same basic trend in most major cities, though maybe not quite to the same degree. But from what I recall the FBI stats show a pretty steady decline in violent crime and murder in the US from the mid-90s on. There were recently only a few cities who were extreme exceptions, where murder rose notably with in the last decade. Chicago being point of the most extreme with 700+ murders some years.

Quick Google search says ( according to wiki) 1974 was the top year for actual murders with 970 murders. 92 was second place with 943. 92 had the higher murder RATE cause the population had dropped some in the meantime.

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Before Bettendorf, Iowa was included... :cool:

Des Moines, Iowa
https://i.imgur.com/bHRRqKj.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Moines,_Iowa

Population • Estimate (2018) 216,853
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DANlDitqMwc

Sioux City, Iowa

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux_City,_Iowa

Population • City • Estimate (2018) 82,396
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I enjoy looking at the photos you post here, Mindfulness. Thanks.

^ This was especially interesting as Davenport has a real dilemma on its hands. I was surprised when the (now ex-) mayor said, "we want to embrace the river, not fight it". That's a catchy slogan, but not much help when you are, as that bar-owner described it, "crotch-deep in water".

For myself, I can't seem to shrug off a morbid fascination with America's Rust Belt, which has brought me, inevitably, to Gary, Indiana. There are two good documentaries on Youtube explaining the town's demise, but I'll limit myself to posting a couple of pics:-

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...QPJtpefNZd8lKW

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/23/0c...c03df77f0f.jpg

New mayor Mike Matson will have to probably decide on what to do in the next coming years about the flooding :beer:

also thanks for liking this thread :love: