January 04, 2007
Let's pull out of Detroit (by guest blogger Dorian Davis)
Iraq Violent Death Rate Lower Than US Cities
Via: Rush
Posted by Dorian at January 4, 2007 06:02 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags:
With all due respect to the Iraqi government, I think we need to treat their numbers with a great deal of caution. While it may not be as bad as the UN numbers, which according to the AP article are more than double the numbers that Rush and the Iraqi government have, I don't know if things are as good as these numbers. We're moving in a fog here-kind of makes you want to hang out with Pierre, Prince Anderi and Natasha.
Posted by: Von Bek at January 4, 2007 08:28 PMI could not agree more. We should never have been in Detroit in the first place.
Posted by: Gib at January 5, 2007 08:45 AMAnd -- sorry to sound so inegalitarian -- but a judge being kidnapped and killed by terrorists is a lot more disruptive than one crackhead killing another.
Posted by: Joe Grossberg at January 5, 2007 08:50 AMRush is comparing apples to oranges. He's comparing violent US cities to Iraq the country. The FBI says that the US murder rate for cities over 100k people is roughly 4500 for 77M people (I didn't crunch the spreadsheet), compared to Iraq with 16k murders for 26M people, making the national murder rate in Iraq 12-ish times worse than the US. I'd guess that the top ten murder towns in Iraq are probably worse than the top ten murder towns in the US.
Posted by: at January 5, 2007 09:30 AMWhoops, I made that post. I want to caveat that the FBI numbers only account for a quarter of the US population, so all that I can do is argue that there are more murders in the cities than not, and that the US rate for big citie is a conservative estimate.
Posted by: David at January 5, 2007 09:33 AMGood catch, David.
Posted by: Joe Grossberg at January 5, 2007 12:58 PM
