[lbo-talk] suburbia kills

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Aug 15 18:02:00 PDT 2007


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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