[lbo-talk] suburbia kills

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 17:42:39 PDT 2007


On 8/15/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Yup, a lot of it. A while back I did a quickie comparison of driving
> death rates for a few states. New York was relatively low and
> Alabama, high. And rural Alabama was far higher than urban Alabama.
> So it's not just young men.

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.

-- Andy



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