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In article <2935506688.1.p00168@psilink.com> "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com> writes:
>Since Belfast is about 1/5 the size of Detroit, assuming that all 2000 
>or so deaths from "strife in N. Ireland" were in Belfast (which they 
>weren't, of course), they should match 1 year's Detroit totals with 5 
>years' of their own in Belfast.  Detroit kills about 2000 per year, and 
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>it's taken Belfast 25 years to reach that total.  The Irish just can't keep 
>up with solid American-style violence.  For all the sound and fury on 
>US television coverage of N. Ireland, it's child's play compared with 
>Detroit, with drug warfare, muggings, rape, police brutality, etc.

Where did you get this number?  I'm pretty sure that it's high by about
a factor of 8.  I don't think we've even reached 1 murder per day here
in Detroit yet, although I realize that's still pretty bad....

David R. Conrad
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