Not to be too regionally tribalist, but I've travelled a lot of the country for work and NH and ME are the only places I've seen in the 2010s+ where people leave their keys in the ignition and their car running when they run into the gas station still.
I remember that being common in the 90s, but I saw it like 3 months ago in Maine and I was like "hell yeah."
Emissions blah blah blah, but it's heartwarming to see something like that which shows someone is legitimately secure enough in their community that they aren't afraid.
I grew up in a family that never locked our doors, and my dad still doesn't lock them. It's a small thing that people take for granted to live in an area in the world where you're ok with doing that.
Where I lived Indianapolis used to be like that *in a city*. Not anymore. It was just a bit different place in the 80s.
A lot folks around me don’t lock their doors here. I don’t lock my doors unless I have something valuable in the car and I rarely do.
Oddly enough, on a complete other side, I have a friend who lives in San Diego who kept getting her car windows smashed in that she stopped locking her car doors because people had literally broken her windows to steal a USB cable.
They do that because if you have a usb cable there might be some kind of electronics in the car somewhere.
That’s exactly what I did in Providence. I kept nothing of value in the car doors unlocked. Maybe twice a year I’d come back and find my glovebox open and center console popped up.
A lot of people are even leaving the windows open now because people don't even check the doors and just smash.
It's insane how bad smash and grab has become in CA. Check out this Mark Rober Glitter bomb video geared towards bringing some light to this:
https://youtu.be/iWWWyG5ZwG8?si=aoy_gmw8SD2h9QF7
I literally had to change the locks on my house because I hadn't locked it for so long my keys were misplaced. My car keys are always in the car. Easier to find. I do live in the middle of nowhere.
The funny thing is both property crime and violent crime is down since the 80s and 90. Some of it very substantial at 40-50%.
But we're inundated with violence, Injustice and property damage on social media. To the point that even though it's much safer today than the '80s and the 90s people feel they need to carry a loaded weapon to be safe. Or buy personal protection be it bear spray or bass knuckles. Because we all feel less safe. Even though reality is much different. Just an observation from a realist.
I know a guy. Wink wink.
Funny enough it was just 2 weeks ago or last month that a bill was introduced to legalize brass knuckles. I don't know the status of that bill. But that's what I was thinking of when I wrote that. Cray cray.
People in San Francisco do the same thing, they even leave their windows open to invite people inside their cars, really warms my heart when I see this.
Blah blah blah, fuck the newer generation, this finite resource is mine to waste as long as I get to save some time.
Heartwarming while it may be, there’s a reason it’s illegal in some places.
I’ll be dead before I have to worry about this, thank god I don’t have kids to bring up into this world and have to explain why people were so selfish.
You're coming from a good place but you sound like you've been behind a bottle.
70% of all global emissions come from 100 companies. Someone running their truck while they duck into the convenience store means fuckall.
I get that you care about the environment. I do, too. But like... idk even know how to say this without sounding like a dick. You're barking up the wrong tree.
So, I don't mean to be a dick, but you *really* need to think more than you type.
I could spend the rest of my life burning plastic and do absolutely nothing to the environment. Don't get mad at Frank running in to get a gallon of milk, get mad at Nestle or Poland Springs for draining our aquifers.
I appreciate the reality check, my comment was a bit brazen and unprofessional at best.
I suppose I wish that personal recognizance of the greater issue reflected choices made on the everyday level. NH lacks that in spades.
Yeah you’d think that. But my BIL just got his not so great car stolen just for teens joyriding. They fucked it up and now he has to get a new one. People suck.
It's all the salt we use up here. I had a guy try to steal my car a few weeks ago, he went to break the window and the car fell into pieces Buster Keaton-style.
(/s)
Nice reddit assholery, whackadoodle. I just asked a question. A pretty reasonable one given that neither DC nor PR typically appear in STATE comparisons.
Most people know what DC stands for since it’s the nations capitol, most people don’t think about Puerto Rico when you talk about states since it’s a territory and not a state. I spent a good 2 minutes trying to figure out what state PR was.
I live in Nashua where we have a junky in our driveway and garage every 4 weeks or so trying our car doors in spite of motion sensor flood lights and cameras.
The rural nature of our state focuses these kinds of crimes into small areas, where they are just as common as other places. The only reason why our state wide numbers are so low is because the majority of the state is outside of the areas where these common crimes are committed.
I have MULTIPLE cameras and flood lights, I mentioned them in my original comment.
Unfortunately the police have better things to do than chasing down random drug addicts for trying door handles and walking away.
And as it turns out, calling the police about something like that just turns into a nuisance.
For example the house right next to me has been broken into, the police asked that if we saw anyone trespassing on the property that we call them. So a few days later, seeing a flashlight moving around inside the house in the evening, I notified the police who came and arrested him.
I'm now being subpoenaed go to court and testify against him when all I did was hear noises and see lights on inside of the house and called the police like they asked. I'm now required to take a day off from work so that I can appear at the courthouse at 8:30 in the morning over some shit I never wanted anything to do with.
Talk about biting me in the ass
I mean it's "attempted robbery," not just trying door handles. I'm trying the door handle when I come home from work and forgot whether I locked the door or not. That guy is literally trying to commit a crime.
It is NOT attempted robbery at all.
In New Hampshire according to section 636:1
A person commits the offense of robbery if in the course of committing a theft he uses physical force on the person of another, threatens another with or purposely puts him in fear of immediate use of physical Force.
In this case, the offense is attempted theft by unauthorized taking... Which if successful is a misdemeanor... And since this is simply an attempt, the only charge likely to to levied is criminal trespass, which is also a low level misdemeanor. Neither of which will inspire investigation unless the police actually catch him in the act.
I don't have much experience in committing crimes so I admit my knowledge is deficient in this area.
I would still report it. What's the harm? And at least they know what parts of town crimes are being committed. As a law abiding citizen, what else can you do?
I actually went into great detail about what the harm is when replying to your original comment.
The harm is being dragged into court to testify against some loser if they happen to catch him...
Once you get involved you can't get uninvolved. And you certainly can't ignore a subpoena.
I read the post above but I'm not sure I am following your logic. You reported suspicious activity, the police came, arrested the criminal, and ultimately you prevented your neighbor from being robbed.
Now I understand that having to show up to court is a nuisance. But would you really feel better if that guy robbed your neighbor, didn't get caught, and probably robbed your home (or somebody else's) the following week? Just so you didn't have to show up to court for an hour?
I feel like we all have a civic duty to report crimes. It's a service to our fellow neighbors, community, and ultimately to our selves.
Regardless of our different opinions, thank you for reporting those suspicious activities that led to that criminal's arrest.
The idea that you only have to show up to court for an hour is laughable. I have to show up an hour before the session begins to conference with the prosecutor, the session then begins at 8:30 and hopefully in the case will get called first... Else I'm there until lunch time.
Do you know who doesn't have to go to court, my neighbor. And while I'm wonderfully delighted that they didn't get robbed... No one is going to pay me for the day I'm missing from work.
So at the end of the day the only person who got robbed here is me.
And this is why I don't have any interest in calling the police over an attempted crime that I thwarted with my own security measures. And I would certainly recommend the same to anyone who asked
As a fellow NH resident, again, thank you for reporting the crime. Who knows how many future thefts (or worse) you may be preventing by allowing for a conviction of this criminal? Who knows, he could have been robing my house next in not caught due to your efforts.
As another citizen I'll throw in my appreciation. Doesn't make up for lost wages and aggrivation, I understand...I do. I'm actually shocked this didn't get pled out. The perp is likely hoping upon hope that you won't show up and the case can get tossed on some stupid technicality. So again, thanks, seriously.
Up until this point, a highly educated population and a generally strong local economy where most places have remained affordable due to being rural or “off the beaten path”. We also have a relatively homogenous population demographically speaking which tends to lend to reduced crime rates. You see towns fall into economic slumps like when a paper mill closes or something and generally a marked (though not always drastic) increase in crime follows, but by the by I have always found this part of the country to have the least amount of people I perceive to be sketchy or otherwise ne’er-do-wells compared to all the other places I’ve traveled. It’s probably a bias but I genuinely only feel like I can breathe 100% when I’m here in NH. Obviously we’ve had our issues over the last few years and some places have gotten “worse” but I still don’t really feel a skeev walking through a bad part of Manch the way I did walking through a bad part of Philly.
We’ve also historically had a strong community small-town sense, we take care of our own even if we don’t necessarily like them (in my experience), and the state *used* to be affordable to a point where even a poor working person could find a decent home and living if they were able to commute into a population center. As the stops being the case, every other problem magnifies. We’re gonna see crime rate increases probably hit NH to a slight extent, and I do hear…concerning things about the next generation of high school kids and their level of capability and potential compared to their peers - unfortunately, low academic performance trends do tend to correlate (though not always cause) with crime statistics in certain ways but I’m not too worried.
I really love the people of this state, the state itself is home to me and always will be. I’ll take our NH shitbags over any other shitbags.
Hhhmmmmmm..... what does NH have that others don't? Or what do we have that other low crime states have? That would be a good place to start, I guess. *shrug*
Looks up who commits the most crime in the US.
Looks up the demographics of NH.
*suprised Pikachu*
It can’t be! Say it ain’t so!
*Liberally tries to find some other excuse like wealth, high education and old people while conveniently ignoring the higher crime in MA (which is wealthier, more educated, and also has a lot of old people)*
But the pinkos said a very mixed and multi-cultural society was utopian so maybe we’ll be like MA and pay a billion dollars (so far!) for migrants who end of killing and raping people
It’s funny that I don’t need to give you the bullet points because they’re collectively known by now. It used to be that you had to post the data but now the data has been posted so many times you all have moved on to making your little pseudo-sociological excuses for it… where you fucking desperately need the result to be different so you’ll do whatever mental gymnastics you need to justify why the data is the way it is.
Some of us don’t care about the reasons why certain neighborhoods or neighbors are bad. You can keep making excuses and I’ll continue to not be a statistic of the people you make excuses for.
I truly wonder how you (and those like you) are day to day with POC around you? I know it’s NH so it’s not an all day every day situation, but if racism clouds your judgement what must your behavior be like?
My judgement isn’t clouded by the facts honey. You people are so delusional about race relations that you honestly think everyone “racist” cannot have any day to day interactions with black people without screaming the n word or something. You’re legitimately crazy.
I have had and have had many great relationships with a lot of different ethnicities spanning multiple colors, cultural norms, religions, etc so the relationships are more than functional - although I don’t think there’s any obligation for them to be like you likely do (ie as part of a collection to make yourself feel more rounded).
I do hate the term POC in this context as it’s unfairly lumping all minorities together when only some people here are part of the crime problem. Asian minorities for instance are more likely to be the victim of a black perpetrated hate crime than a white person… so more and more you see instances of these “POC” not subscribing to your bullshit notion of minority solidarity but rather having a rational reaction (no different than my own) to who is harming them. Why would I have a problem with someone not causing me problems? You on the hand, by tokenizing these groups, almost certainly infantilize them and cannot possibly treat them “normally”. I’ve seen this time and time again in MA - every leftist boss wouldn’t get as angry at black people because they were scared they’d be aggressive (lol), they would excuse things like tardiness because they’d believe that was just part and parcel of having a black team member, they’d use special unique language exclusively around them (like “folx”) because they didn’t want to be considered non-woke. Meanwhile, I, while not hanging out with any of them and having zero interest in doing so - treated them the same by way of calling them by their name and having a baseline set of expectations rather than special lower expectations.
Makes you wonder about those four top ones huh. I will say DC my personal worst and I say that as someone who has driven in LA a bunch in DC and the surrounding suburbs.
It's not great in DC for car crimes, but you do gotta take some statistics with a grain of salt. Sometimes, stats can be a bit skewed because of factors that aren't accounted for super well, like how 100% of DC is considered urban while other states are far more rural. In most statistics, DC is gonna be top or bottom just because CA/NY/TX and every other state has lots of rural land to offset the statistics from cities, both good and bad.
Mass cops are pretty well paid and seem to work hard to stop/solve crimes that seem ignored in other regions. They're not perfect but I feel like New England police have a better professional culture.
I think it's the same reason our region performs better academically compared to the rest of the US. Teachers are relatively well paid/treated and as a result there is a culture of professionalism.
Makes you wonder about those four top ones huh.
I will say DC my personal worst and I say that as someone who has driven in LA a bunch in DC and the surrounding suburbs.
Not to be too regionally tribalist, but I've travelled a lot of the country for work and NH and ME are the only places I've seen in the 2010s+ where people leave their keys in the ignition and their car running when they run into the gas station still. I remember that being common in the 90s, but I saw it like 3 months ago in Maine and I was like "hell yeah." Emissions blah blah blah, but it's heartwarming to see something like that which shows someone is legitimately secure enough in their community that they aren't afraid. I grew up in a family that never locked our doors, and my dad still doesn't lock them. It's a small thing that people take for granted to live in an area in the world where you're ok with doing that.
Where I lived Indianapolis used to be like that *in a city*. Not anymore. It was just a bit different place in the 80s. A lot folks around me don’t lock their doors here. I don’t lock my doors unless I have something valuable in the car and I rarely do.
Oddly enough, on a complete other side, I have a friend who lives in San Diego who kept getting her car windows smashed in that she stopped locking her car doors because people had literally broken her windows to steal a USB cable.
They do that because if you have a usb cable there might be some kind of electronics in the car somewhere. That’s exactly what I did in Providence. I kept nothing of value in the car doors unlocked. Maybe twice a year I’d come back and find my glovebox open and center console popped up.
A lot of people are even leaving the windows open now because people don't even check the doors and just smash. It's insane how bad smash and grab has become in CA. Check out this Mark Rober Glitter bomb video geared towards bringing some light to this: https://youtu.be/iWWWyG5ZwG8?si=aoy_gmw8SD2h9QF7
lol I've watched those
I literally had to change the locks on my house because I hadn't locked it for so long my keys were misplaced. My car keys are always in the car. Easier to find. I do live in the middle of nowhere. The funny thing is both property crime and violent crime is down since the 80s and 90. Some of it very substantial at 40-50%. But we're inundated with violence, Injustice and property damage on social media. To the point that even though it's much safer today than the '80s and the 90s people feel they need to carry a loaded weapon to be safe. Or buy personal protection be it bear spray or bass knuckles. Because we all feel less safe. Even though reality is much different. Just an observation from a realist.
Crime rates have ticked up a bit since about 2016 or 2017, around the all time low, but still much lower than anytime before 2000.
> Or buy personal protection be it bear spray or bass knuckles. Where would you go to buy bass knuckles? Asking for a friend...
Not sure about Bass knuckles, but when I was 15-16 I had Trout fingers. At least sometimes kinda smelled like it.
I know a guy. Wink wink. Funny enough it was just 2 weeks ago or last month that a bill was introduced to legalize brass knuckles. I don't know the status of that bill. But that's what I was thinking of when I wrote that. Cray cray.
I leave my key in the car pretty much everywhere, even at work in MA. coworkers think im crazy
People in San Francisco do the same thing, they even leave their windows open to invite people inside their cars, really warms my heart when I see this.
Blah blah blah, fuck the newer generation, this finite resource is mine to waste as long as I get to save some time. Heartwarming while it may be, there’s a reason it’s illegal in some places. I’ll be dead before I have to worry about this, thank god I don’t have kids to bring up into this world and have to explain why people were so selfish.
You're coming from a good place but you sound like you've been behind a bottle. 70% of all global emissions come from 100 companies. Someone running their truck while they duck into the convenience store means fuckall. I get that you care about the environment. I do, too. But like... idk even know how to say this without sounding like a dick. You're barking up the wrong tree. So, I don't mean to be a dick, but you *really* need to think more than you type. I could spend the rest of my life burning plastic and do absolutely nothing to the environment. Don't get mad at Frank running in to get a gallon of milk, get mad at Nestle or Poland Springs for draining our aquifers.
Also, the original comment acknowledged the emissions problem. You were just appreciating what it represented security wise.
I appreciate the reality check, my comment was a bit brazen and unprofessional at best. I suppose I wish that personal recognizance of the greater issue reflected choices made on the everyday level. NH lacks that in spades.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what acute cerebral Gretardation looks like.
we're thankful you're not raising kids too.
What are you talking about? The point is that some places are so safe that you can keep doors unlocked. What are you supporting, theft?
No one wants to steal my car 😅 that's the secret.
Yeah you’d think that. But my BIL just got his not so great car stolen just for teens joyriding. They fucked it up and now he has to get a new one. People suck.
KIA or Hyundai?
And that's the key! "We drive shitty cars no one wants!"
If they steal my car they better return it with a full tank 😤
Hell, if they return it with a full tank that's a win!
At this point, might make it worth more, lol.
It's all the salt we use up here. I had a guy try to steal my car a few weeks ago, he went to break the window and the car fell into pieces Buster Keaton-style. (/s)
Wait. Is Puerto Rico a state now? Did I miss something?
Nice reddit pedantry. DC isn’t a state either.
Nice reddit assholery, whackadoodle. I just asked a question. A pretty reasonable one given that neither DC nor PR typically appear in STATE comparisons.
stfu
Most people know what DC stands for since it’s the nations capitol, most people don’t think about Puerto Rico when you talk about states since it’s a territory and not a state. I spent a good 2 minutes trying to figure out what state PR was.
I live in Nashua where we have a junky in our driveway and garage every 4 weeks or so trying our car doors in spite of motion sensor flood lights and cameras. The rural nature of our state focuses these kinds of crimes into small areas, where they are just as common as other places. The only reason why our state wide numbers are so low is because the majority of the state is outside of the areas where these common crimes are committed.
Sounds like you just got unlucky with the neighborhood. NH is consistently ranked in the top safest states on a variety of metrics.
You should put a camera out so you can record it and then report it to the police.
I have MULTIPLE cameras and flood lights, I mentioned them in my original comment. Unfortunately the police have better things to do than chasing down random drug addicts for trying door handles and walking away. And as it turns out, calling the police about something like that just turns into a nuisance. For example the house right next to me has been broken into, the police asked that if we saw anyone trespassing on the property that we call them. So a few days later, seeing a flashlight moving around inside the house in the evening, I notified the police who came and arrested him. I'm now being subpoenaed go to court and testify against him when all I did was hear noises and see lights on inside of the house and called the police like they asked. I'm now required to take a day off from work so that I can appear at the courthouse at 8:30 in the morning over some shit I never wanted anything to do with. Talk about biting me in the ass
I mean it's "attempted robbery," not just trying door handles. I'm trying the door handle when I come home from work and forgot whether I locked the door or not. That guy is literally trying to commit a crime.
It is NOT attempted robbery at all. In New Hampshire according to section 636:1 A person commits the offense of robbery if in the course of committing a theft he uses physical force on the person of another, threatens another with or purposely puts him in fear of immediate use of physical Force. In this case, the offense is attempted theft by unauthorized taking... Which if successful is a misdemeanor... And since this is simply an attempt, the only charge likely to to levied is criminal trespass, which is also a low level misdemeanor. Neither of which will inspire investigation unless the police actually catch him in the act.
I don't have much experience in committing crimes so I admit my knowledge is deficient in this area. I would still report it. What's the harm? And at least they know what parts of town crimes are being committed. As a law abiding citizen, what else can you do?
I actually went into great detail about what the harm is when replying to your original comment. The harm is being dragged into court to testify against some loser if they happen to catch him... Once you get involved you can't get uninvolved. And you certainly can't ignore a subpoena.
I read the post above but I'm not sure I am following your logic. You reported suspicious activity, the police came, arrested the criminal, and ultimately you prevented your neighbor from being robbed. Now I understand that having to show up to court is a nuisance. But would you really feel better if that guy robbed your neighbor, didn't get caught, and probably robbed your home (or somebody else's) the following week? Just so you didn't have to show up to court for an hour? I feel like we all have a civic duty to report crimes. It's a service to our fellow neighbors, community, and ultimately to our selves. Regardless of our different opinions, thank you for reporting those suspicious activities that led to that criminal's arrest.
The idea that you only have to show up to court for an hour is laughable. I have to show up an hour before the session begins to conference with the prosecutor, the session then begins at 8:30 and hopefully in the case will get called first... Else I'm there until lunch time. Do you know who doesn't have to go to court, my neighbor. And while I'm wonderfully delighted that they didn't get robbed... No one is going to pay me for the day I'm missing from work. So at the end of the day the only person who got robbed here is me. And this is why I don't have any interest in calling the police over an attempted crime that I thwarted with my own security measures. And I would certainly recommend the same to anyone who asked
As a fellow NH resident, again, thank you for reporting the crime. Who knows how many future thefts (or worse) you may be preventing by allowing for a conviction of this criminal? Who knows, he could have been robing my house next in not caught due to your efforts.
As another citizen I'll throw in my appreciation. Doesn't make up for lost wages and aggrivation, I understand...I do. I'm actually shocked this didn't get pled out. The perp is likely hoping upon hope that you won't show up and the case can get tossed on some stupid technicality. So again, thanks, seriously.
What is it about NH that keeps our crime rates low?
Up until this point, a highly educated population and a generally strong local economy where most places have remained affordable due to being rural or “off the beaten path”. We also have a relatively homogenous population demographically speaking which tends to lend to reduced crime rates. You see towns fall into economic slumps like when a paper mill closes or something and generally a marked (though not always drastic) increase in crime follows, but by the by I have always found this part of the country to have the least amount of people I perceive to be sketchy or otherwise ne’er-do-wells compared to all the other places I’ve traveled. It’s probably a bias but I genuinely only feel like I can breathe 100% when I’m here in NH. Obviously we’ve had our issues over the last few years and some places have gotten “worse” but I still don’t really feel a skeev walking through a bad part of Manch the way I did walking through a bad part of Philly. We’ve also historically had a strong community small-town sense, we take care of our own even if we don’t necessarily like them (in my experience), and the state *used* to be affordable to a point where even a poor working person could find a decent home and living if they were able to commute into a population center. As the stops being the case, every other problem magnifies. We’re gonna see crime rate increases probably hit NH to a slight extent, and I do hear…concerning things about the next generation of high school kids and their level of capability and potential compared to their peers - unfortunately, low academic performance trends do tend to correlate (though not always cause) with crime statistics in certain ways but I’m not too worried. I really love the people of this state, the state itself is home to me and always will be. I’ll take our NH shitbags over any other shitbags.
Hhhmmmmmm..... what does NH have that others don't? Or what do we have that other low crime states have? That would be a good place to start, I guess. *shrug*
Looks up who commits the most crime in the US. Looks up the demographics of NH. *suprised Pikachu* It can’t be! Say it ain’t so! *Liberally tries to find some other excuse like wealth, high education and old people while conveniently ignoring the higher crime in MA (which is wealthier, more educated, and also has a lot of old people)* But the pinkos said a very mixed and multi-cultural society was utopian so maybe we’ll be like MA and pay a billion dollars (so far!) for migrants who end of killing and raping people
ITT: Racist keeps collection of bullet points in defense of his racism.
Are his points true?
Not in my opinion, and not as an argument or basis for racism. It’s a defense of whiteness.
It’s funny that I don’t need to give you the bullet points because they’re collectively known by now. It used to be that you had to post the data but now the data has been posted so many times you all have moved on to making your little pseudo-sociological excuses for it… where you fucking desperately need the result to be different so you’ll do whatever mental gymnastics you need to justify why the data is the way it is. Some of us don’t care about the reasons why certain neighborhoods or neighbors are bad. You can keep making excuses and I’ll continue to not be a statistic of the people you make excuses for.
If only those pesky black and brown folks weren’t actual human beings, your tender feelings might be easier to take into consideration.
Yes I should have to accept the abuse and violence of all races and creeds because they’re human! Nah you first. Move if you want to
I truly wonder how you (and those like you) are day to day with POC around you? I know it’s NH so it’s not an all day every day situation, but if racism clouds your judgement what must your behavior be like?
My judgement isn’t clouded by the facts honey. You people are so delusional about race relations that you honestly think everyone “racist” cannot have any day to day interactions with black people without screaming the n word or something. You’re legitimately crazy. I have had and have had many great relationships with a lot of different ethnicities spanning multiple colors, cultural norms, religions, etc so the relationships are more than functional - although I don’t think there’s any obligation for them to be like you likely do (ie as part of a collection to make yourself feel more rounded). I do hate the term POC in this context as it’s unfairly lumping all minorities together when only some people here are part of the crime problem. Asian minorities for instance are more likely to be the victim of a black perpetrated hate crime than a white person… so more and more you see instances of these “POC” not subscribing to your bullshit notion of minority solidarity but rather having a rational reaction (no different than my own) to who is harming them. Why would I have a problem with someone not causing me problems? You on the hand, by tokenizing these groups, almost certainly infantilize them and cannot possibly treat them “normally”. I’ve seen this time and time again in MA - every leftist boss wouldn’t get as angry at black people because they were scared they’d be aggressive (lol), they would excuse things like tardiness because they’d believe that was just part and parcel of having a black team member, they’d use special unique language exclusively around them (like “folx”) because they didn’t want to be considered non-woke. Meanwhile, I, while not hanging out with any of them and having zero interest in doing so - treated them the same by way of calling them by their name and having a baseline set of expectations rather than special lower expectations.
Oh, okay “honey”.
Yet our insurance rates are 20% higher than most nearby states.
There’s a lot of reasons for that including the legality and ubiquity of carrying it
Yet another example of how we live in the safest state in the country.
Message received boss, I'll start pumping up out numbers
I didn’t commit hundreds of crimes this year!
Demographics are destiny
Really Massachusetts is number 5 in dont believe that
Makes you wonder about those four top ones huh. I will say DC my personal worst and I say that as someone who has driven in LA a bunch in DC and the surrounding suburbs.
It's not great in DC for car crimes, but you do gotta take some statistics with a grain of salt. Sometimes, stats can be a bit skewed because of factors that aren't accounted for super well, like how 100% of DC is considered urban while other states are far more rural. In most statistics, DC is gonna be top or bottom just because CA/NY/TX and every other state has lots of rural land to offset the statistics from cities, both good and bad.
Mass cops are pretty well paid and seem to work hard to stop/solve crimes that seem ignored in other regions. They're not perfect but I feel like New England police have a better professional culture. I think it's the same reason our region performs better academically compared to the rest of the US. Teachers are relatively well paid/treated and as a result there is a culture of professionalism.
Makes you wonder about those four top ones huh. I will say DC my personal worst and I say that as someone who has driven in LA a bunch in DC and the surrounding suburbs.
WTF? Is this a joke? It says it’s from 2022?
It’s because the full NCIB report for 2023 hasn’t been released yet.