Dallas crime rate again tops among largest cities
DALLAS — The city's crime rate was the highest among nine U.S. cities, including Houston, with more than a million residents for the seventh consecutive year in 2004, according to police statistics.
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.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/metropolitan/3093199
I'd make a joke about how driving on I-35 is murder, but that would be in poor taste.
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About me: “'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.' 'How do you know I’m mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,” said the Cat, 'or you wouldn’t have come here.'” -Lewis Carroll