Re: suburbia kills

On Aug 15, 2007, at 8:42 PM, Andy F wrote:

Wasn’t there some study about ten years ago where if you lumped together homicides with car deaths, the ‘burbs came out no better than high crime areas of cities. It was sort of gee-whiz, but telling too.

Dunno about that, but a friend of Dan Lazare’s did a comparison in
the early 1990s between NYC and suburban Jersey, and it was more
dangerous to be a teen in NJ than NYC.

Doug

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