Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnji.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!abnji!jca From: jca@abnji.UUCP (james armstrong) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Crime in New York Message-ID: <166@abnji.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 15:51:55 EST Article-I.D.: abnji.166 Posted: Wed Jan 9 15:51:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 22:47:03 EST Organization: ATTIS, NJ Lines: 20 Xref: watmath net.flame:7557 net.politics:6695 Actually, it is rather amusing to hear people complain about crime in New York City when it is 10th in the United States in violent crime. Admittedly, it is still too high, but New York City is not the location of as high a murder rate as, say, Miami. Do you realize that you have a greater chance of being killed by a handgun in the United States than you do of being killed by terrorism in Northern Ireland? -- She dreams of 1969 Before the soldiers came When life was cheap on bread and wine And sharing meant no shame She is awakened by the screams Of rockets fired from nearby Yet still she wakes into a dream To beat the fear that she might die.