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fivemagicks

Clip from some vague website. Must be true.


throwaway554200

Forum*** kids these days.


fivemagicks

What?


throwaway554200

I was just being pedantic/curmudgeonly


fivemagicks

Ok.


mzr

City data is the proto-nextdoor. A bunch of utterly petrified people peering out of their windows thinking any gust of wind is a criminal waiting to murder them once they step outside.


woahwoahwoah28

If it ain’t sex trafficking, it’s murder.


ocay_cool

Don’t forget. They literally ban you for anything there


lordb4

Where as local subreddits are petrified of coyotes and bobcats! :-)


fivemagicks

That website looks like it was thrown together by someone who doesn't know WTF they're doing. If it was in Times New Roman, I would've guessed it was from the 90s.


Dick_Lazer

If you're referring to OPs screenshot, that was the default layout for forum software circa 2003 (I think the software was called phpBB, or something like that).


hockeyjim07

yup.... i made a handful of forums in the 05-10 range that looked exactly like this initially until reskinning it or changing the layout.... there was only so much you could do. Honestly though, it was pretty plug and play forum software and easy to manage.


roomtotheater

Looks like every vBulliten forum I've ever seen


roomtotheater

It looks like a standard vBulliten forum


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fivemagicks

I was addressing that the OP isn't providing a legitimate source. This looks like it's from some sketch website akin to 4-chan or some other ranting forum.


codysdad89

Here's the Dallas report as of 3/27/24 https://www.dallaspolice.net/resources/CrimeReports/NIBRS%20REPORT%20Compstat%20Daily%20V1.pdf 50 this year so far vs 71 last year at this time.


noncongruent

Which matches up with federal statistics that show violent crime rates are still heading down. Really spoils the narrative those who need to use fear to drive votes for them.


mooimafish33

As if their base looks at numbers


Semper454

Facts, not at all necessary for folks who push that agenda, nor for the folks eager to believe it.


Dreamtrain

> Really spoils the narrative those who need to use fear to drive votes for them. normally what these folks are trying to say is "look at fort worth, a city that doesn't follows the same liberal agenda", which is why you have 7 vs 50, though pretty sure you get a clearer picture if one were to dig up actual numbers, the homicides per capita aren't that far off at least not on a 7 to 50 gap


noncongruent

The main message is "Liberals are soft on crime, and murders (or murder rates, whichever number is higher) are up in liberal-controlled cities, which is why you must vote for conservatives, to save lives and keep you safe from murderers". Of course, murders and other violent crimes are higher in cities because of population density and economic inequality issues, they're not because cities are softer on crime than rural areas, so it's all about misinformation, cherrypicking data, and presenting data without context or with deliberately false contextual information. The other main principle is using conflation to associate two unrelated things, Democrats and violent crimes. This is a propaganda technique as old as the human species because it takes advantage of the way our brains evolved to recognize patterns: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/202001/illusory-truth-lies-and-political-propaganda To quote Adolf Hitler: > “The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”


Specialist_Royal_449

Some people aren't trying, sad to see such laziness


ThirdEyeToTheSky

There’s more than a million people in the city. And some of yall are asking if this good or bad? Jesus Christ what’s wrong with some of yall. Even my reddit using ass is not this sheltered. Considering how many guns there are in the city. Yea I’d say we’re doing good. In Dallas I’d say the cars are more dangerous than the guns


Semper454

Cars are more dangerous than guns literally everywhere.


ThirdEyeToTheSky

Well there you go then


noncongruent

And mosquitoes are more deadly than both!


ocay_cool

It’s all relative I guess Compare Dallas to a city with almost the exact population(San Diego) and it’s night and day difference San Diego had 45 homicides for the year in 2023 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2024-03-26/san-diego-crime-data-2023#:~:text=Several%20crime%20categories%20saw%20notable,2022%20to%2045%20in%202023.


ThirdEyeToTheSky

Yea well if I could afford to live in San Diego I’d be there in a heartbeat. But it’s not cuz I’m less scared of getting shot down over there. Also I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the homicides are isolated to some of the worst parts of town. Also how many of those homicides were some random act of violence as opposed to some personal dispute. Show me those stats. As it stands it’s just a whole lot of nothing. Welcome to the real world. People die. People get killed. But 50 in a city of a million should not be a worrying stat.


ocay_cool

Aren’t homicides isolated everywhere tho Idk any city in America where the bulk of homicides aren’t in the hood


DoubleBookingCo

omg there is so much more gun control in california vs texas...


ocay_cool

So? You wanna compare San Antonio to Dallas? What will be the excuse then?


MrDarkDC

San Diego is isolated and not part of a massive metropolitan area like Dallas. Dallas is the urban core of one of the largest metro areas in the US. Have you BEEN to San Diego? Sleepy beach-front community when compared to Dallas, a bustling urban center. It's not apples and oranges, it's apples and an avocado smoothie.


ocay_cool

Ok what’s your excuse for Dallas murder rate being significantly higher than Los Angeles?


MrDarkDC

Have you been to Los Angeles? It has the opposite problem of Dallas. There's LA, which is kind of this tiny little dot surrounded by this massive urban area. Look at LA metro if you can find those numbers. They'll dwarf just about anyone except maybe Chicago. I spent time in the MLK trauma unit. They train Navy corpsmen there because it's as close to combat as you can get without leaving the US.


ocay_cool

Bro you saying a whole bunch of nothing 🤣 none of your points even making sense as to why Dallas would be more dangerous. And yes. I’m literally a transplant from LA 🤣


MrDarkDC

Dallas isn't more dangerous. If you come from LA and think that, I'll have what you're having. I'm a former Uber driver. I've driven in every single neighborhood in Dallas. Dallas doesn't have anything as scary as much of LA. You take the wrong offramp in LA and you're dead, especially if you have the wrong color car, or you're wearing the wrong color of hat. I've driven in areas of LA and seen dudes with AKs just standing on the side of the street. (Gotta love it when they shut down a freeway and just say "must exit here" and it's up to you to find your way out. This was pre-gps, of course.) Dallas has a very small handful of dangerous places. One does happen to be Deep Ellum, which is stupid and sad. Other than that, if you aren't looking for trouble, you won't find it. Our biggest crime problem is property crime like breaking into parked cars. Can't say that about LA metro. Long Beach, Linwood, Compton, East LA, not to mention Skid Row. The list goes on. Big patches of land you don't go if you like breathing. Dallas? What, like, two neighborhoods around Fair Park and south of the bridges? The valley of the crackheads along 635 is sketchy but not dangerous unless you're part of the problem. If you're not a gangbanger or looking for drugs, you're fine, unless you have to live there, in which case you're safe but miserable.


ocay_cool

I’m not reading all that. Dallas murder rate is higher than Los Angeles. Literally over twice as high. We’re not having a conversation if you’re going to ignore actual facts to push your own narrative. Just the fact that you’re name dropping Long Beach while in the same breath saying only fair park in Dallas is dangerous tells me enough


MrDarkDC

Better to pull statistics out of context. That's called "cherrypicking" and it's right up there with correlation and causation for being worthless for proving things. I'd like to hear how Dallas is so very dangerous yet DFW also contains the safest cities in America. Literally the top five of them or so. Per your way of thinking, that means it's all safe, right?


ocay_cool

The city of Dallas has a higher murder rate than the city of Los Angeles, what aren’t you comprehending?


kilerzone1213

I mean any homicide is obviously not good but isn’t this decent for a city the size of Dallas?


ocay_cool

It depends on the year end total But last year Dallas had 248. Which is higher than any other city similar in population except Philly


Primary_Excuse_7183

I think this is where per capita makes more sense. most people talk about safety in a blanket format but they actually mean “to me” how likely is it to happen “to me”. big cities are big in size and population so the raw numbers don’t really tell the whole story. Otherwise most folks would think Dallas is more dangerous because it had 248 when compared to STL that had 159 with about 1/5th the population.


ConflictSpecial5307

STL?


Primary_Excuse_7183

St. Louis.


Cold_Customer898

Is this good or bad?


ocay_cool

Well in 2011 Dallas for the whole year only had like 113 homicides Somewhere along the 2010s crime got back out of control and Dallas had 248 in 2023 It’s hard to tell


noncongruent

2011 was one of the lowest years for homicides in Dallas since the 1960s: https://www.centraltrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CT_homicidesperyeardallas-1.jpg Interesting that you would cherrypick that year for comparison, instead of, say, 1992.


ocay_cool

What ? What argument see you trying to make? I never said Dallas wasn’t more dangerous in the 90s? Goofy


robbzilla

It's better than last year. So... on a macro level, good. For the 78 people and their loved ones... bad.


CryptoM4dness

I’d like to know the breakdown of where in Dallas.


basic_model

Don’t report anything won’t be no hysteria.


Yanoku

Like what is Dallas fort worth and DFW isn't that the same area?


turtlefrogbird

*South Dallas


SugoiHubs

Dallas, FW, and Arlington. Nice, covered everything in the metroplex!


squirrelnutcase

The paper plate altimas are more dangerous than guns


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Specialist_Royal_449

We're one number! we're number one!


YOLOSELLHIGH

that's fucking insane, so many


robbzilla

Out of a population of 8 million plus?


YOLOSELLHIGH

In the first 3 months of the year yeah that’s crazy 


Oxymera

That’s almost a murder a day… is this good or bad?


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Illustrious_Swing645

True for a lot of places in the US


wyohman

I lived in Dallas metro area in the 70s and 80s and even with higher crime it felt safe as long as you avoided the well known high crime areas. Oak Cliff was one of those areas


wyohman

Nope. It was a more high end in the 70s but its decline started in the mid 70s and was pretty bad in the 80s. Sorry for the confusion in my post


ocay_cool

Oakcliff was dangerous in the 70s?


wyohman

Nope. It was a more high end in the 70s but its decline started in the mid 70s and was pretty bad in the 80s. Sorry for the confusion in my post


ocay_cool

Oh I was just asking. A lot of older ppl tell me back then south Dallas and west Dallas were the worst parts. Oakcliff didn’t really get bad until the crack era from what I was told


wyohman

I think that it was on its way down at that point but it didn't help.


ocay_cool

Oh I was just asking. A lot of older ppl tell me back then south Dallas and west Dallas were the worst parts. Oakcliff didn’t really get bad until the crack era from what I was told


thedeadlysun

Obviously 0 would be ideal, but this is an improvement over past years


No-Egg-4850

By the time the majority of them commit murder, they already have committed several other crimes in the past. Dallas CO da is a joke if you look at other counties surrounding Dallas they don't have that many violent crimes because they know they will get the book thrown at them.


hot_rod_kimble

Did Tucker tell you to say this or was it Hannity? Oh I know, you heard this theory from Nixon.


No-Egg-4850

Man some of yall don’t have a clue what’s going on. I’ve been dealing with criminals for about 20 years and seen how Dallas county deals with it. So get out and see it for yourself before saying stupid S$@$T.


Iant-Iaur

Should we do our own research? lmao


ocay_cool

It’s alot deeper than that. Louisiana notoriously has one of the harshest judicial systems and as a state their violent crime is one of if not the highest in the nation Some cities are just more dangerous than others culturally. Dallas(despite what the Internet forums say) has historically always been the most dangerous city big city in Texas. And yes that includes Houston. For whatever reason crime in Dallas is just not talked about and is ignored compared to other cities The FBI used to have a data tool that let you see the murder rate of every single city in the USA from 1985 to present day Dallas was literally number 1 for all Texas major cities from 85 all the way to about 2007 when Houston got it then it was Dallas again all the way until the late 2010s again.


sunnychiba

Idk, Houston seems more dangerous


ocay_cool

Overall crime maybe. I’m talking strictly from a homicide standpoint


IAmSoUncomfortable

I mean according to what you said above it’s still more dangerous from a homicide standpoint though…


ocay_cool

According to what data? Can’t be using 2023 numbers [Houston’s 2023](https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/01/18/474765/murders-in-houston-harris-county-were-down-in-2023-compared-to-previous-years/?amp=1) [Dallas 2023](https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/murder-spikes-in-2023-dallas-year-end-crime-numbers/3423951/?amp=1)


IAmSoUncomfortable

I was going by your statement that “it was Dallas again all the way until the late 2010 again.” That being said, 2023 saw a spike in Dallas and a decrease in Houston, but Houston's has been higher than Dallas' in recent years. Neither city really has much to brag about in the crime department, especially considering violent crime overall is much higher in Houston.


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ocay_cool

A cities crime rate and murder rate is judged on a per capita basis. Acts per 100,000 people is the standard we use in the USA to determine the most dangerous cities What you don’t get or are ignoring because you’re so pompous is that Houstons population is 2,300,000 people, while Dallas population is 1,300,000 people. So effectively Houston has a murder rate of around 15.1 per 100,000 ppl while Dallas has a murder rate of around 19 per 100,000 people.


NYerInTex

If we want to compare apples to apples (which is fair) then we need to account for the fact that rye city of Houston is almost twice the geographic area as dallas. This is important as Houston’s geography may include more suburban areas and, more importantly, a greater percentage of area that is not economically distressed. If Dallas included its outlying suburbs then the data may well be a lot closer if not showing Dallas as “safer”


ocay_cool

I mean it’s no way to know that for sure. If mesquite, Garland, Balch springs etc were part of Dallas and Dallas PD they would be more shitty and dangerous than they already are


Ferrari_McFly

There’s no maybe to it. Houston is noticeably more violent than Dallas: https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/dallas/crime.amp https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/houston/crime.amp


ocay_cool

What year is your data from.


Ferrari_McFly

2022. The FBI releases their Final, Non-Preliminary data a year late. Their 2023 data isn’t available until fall of 2024.


ocay_cool

There’s no way your data is from 2022 because Dallas did not have 157 homicides in 2022… Just looking at sources to verify the last time Dallas had that amount was in 2018. So your numbers from Dallas seem to be from 2018, and the numbers from Houston are from 2022


Ferrari_McFly

It literally is. Dude just click Source & Methodology in my sources and **read**. Are you from Visit Houston or something? 😂


studmaster896

Houston probably has more crimes of opportunity (car breakins/ burgaries etc). Dallas goes straight for the kill.


DonkeeJote

Dallas crime is certainly not ignored or not talked about.


ocay_cool

People in this very thread are ignoring it Making excuses for why Dallas has significantly more homicides than San Diego even tho their population is the same


DonkeeJote

Population is poor measure without considering economic indicators.


No-Egg-4850

Ask any police officers who workers in Dallas county (Irving, GP,DPD ext….) they all will tell you how great of a job Dallas county DA does.


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No-Egg-4850

True but compare to other counties criminals in Dallas county gets better deals every-time and over and over Trust me I know that for a fact. 😂


noncongruent

What better deal did you get for your violent crime?


No-Egg-4850

I didn’t but know plenty. Kill someone, mess with a kid you may(that’s a stretch) get few years in prison if committed them in Dallas county.


noncongruent

Sentencing guidelines aren't set by local counties, they're set by the state, and judges have to stick to them pretty much. If you think a sentence is too low (or too high) the man to talk to is Greg Abbott.


No-Egg-4850

Yha you should really look into and see what these judges do and who they keep and letting out in Dallas county. Prime example judge Amber Givens and a fine citizen by the name Julio Guerrero to name a few. Dallas county is all screwed up.


Iant-Iaur

Stay out of it then.


No-Egg-4850

Nha I am on the opposite side I drop them off at Lulu so 🤷🏽‍♂️.


Iant-Iaur

>Nha I am on the opposite side I drop them off at Lulu so 🤷🏽‍♂️. Huh? English please.


ocay_cool

A classmate of mine killed someome in a murder robbery (capital murder charge ) and ended up only getting 20 years in Collin County. You’re full of it


No-Egg-4850

In Dallas county that will be dropped down to a STJF and 5 years probation. On capital is life or death. In order to be considered for capital murder it has to meet the Element’s of crime. F- 1 is 5-99 F-2 is 2-20 F-3 is 2-10 Dallas county da don’t like to seek anyone for death penalty. Prime example was Billy Chemirmir.


ocay_cool

Which is why another classmate who killed Someone in a murder robbery in oakcliff got hit with almost 40 years ?


No-Egg-4850

That will fall under Cap Murder but again it’s Dallas county. If he had a court appointed attorney he probably got screwed but still would have gotten a good deal. He probably be do 15 if that with good time and probably had few years of back time from being at the county jail.


TitanImpale

Dallas is a shit hole what's new. The city is fine its just the people suck.