<p>LMAO, 9 year olds warranting a public safety alert.</p>
<p>funny, until you picture a whole crowd of them. did you see the end of Hostel?</p>
<p>9 year olds will give you pinkeye if you're not careful.</p>
<p>Farting on my pillow ?</p>
<p>"funny, until you picture a whole crowd of them. did you see the end of Hostel?"</p>
<p>yes, and i loved it. but i would be terrified if they closed in one me. especially on bikes.</p>
<p>It's not going to be funny when they shoot you in the face with the gun they bought for $100 down the street. PA has the most relaxed gun laws in the Northeast, which is one reason why Philly has had hundreds of murders just so far this year, compared to less than 10 in most other Northeastern cities.</p>
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No major Northeastern city has had less than 10 homicides this year, or anything near that few. Philly's current homicide rate may be worse than those of other big cities right now, but it's nowhere near that much worse. Let's keep things in perspective:</p>
<p>He's back... guess it is time again to start researching and reporting on CC the violent crime in New Haven...</p>
<p>Portland, New Haven, Stamford have all had fewer than 10 murders so far this year. Boston, which is a very large city, has only had about 40.</p>
<p>For reference, here is a list of murder rates by Northeastern metropolitan area - murders per 100,000 residents, to be precise. The U.S. average, for the country as a whole, is about 4.5 killings per 100,000 people per year.</p>
<p>Stamford 1.1
Portland 1.9
Boston 2.6
New Haven 3.3
Providence 3.4
Bridgeport 3.8
Syracuse 4.5
Rochester 4.6
Trenton/Princeton 5.9
NYC 6.6
Newark 6.5
Philly 7.8
Baltimore 12.0
D.C. 9.4
Richmond 11.2</p>
<p>since when are stamford, portland, new haven, or half those places considered big cities on the scale of New York, Boston, Philly, or DC?</p>
<p>If you look at the metropolitan area populations, central city employment figures and LMAs, they actually aren't all that far apart. Most have populations in the range of one million to five million or so. Also, in terms of square milage, the urban areas are fairly similar as well. NYC is the only one that is really a lot larger than the others, especially if you consider the region to include everything within 100 miles. </p>
<p>They are all considered large cities. Whether you look at the violence in terms of comparing <10 murders, or 35 in Boston versus 176 (as of yesterday) in Baltimore and 221 (as of yesterday) in Philly so far this year, or you look at it by per capita murder rates, doesn't matter so much.</p>
<p>An update on the "adolescent thug" situation at Penn: <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20070718_Adolescent_thugs_have_Penn_on_edge.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20070718_Adolescent_thugs_have_Penn_on_edge.html</a></p>
<p>I find it interesting how the email doesn't specify the race of the attackers...</p>
<p>^^ yeah that's extremely stupid of Penn</p>
<p>it's done that way for a reason. certain people tend to protest whenever race is mentioned in such messages because they believe it adds to stereotyping.</p>
<p>The day New Haven is considered a major city is a rather chilly day in hell</p>
<p>"it's done that way for a reason. certain people tend to protest whenever race is mentioned in such messages because they believe it adds to stereotyping."</p>
<p>While I understand, I think it would be nice to know who to be wary of.</p>
<p>any current students / faculty / staff don't need a mention of race to figure it out (who do you see roaming campus in groups? exactly.)</p>
<p>Yes, that's what I was getting at. Everyone knows that these kids are black, but it's still pretty gutless to not say that. Penn should close off its campus; this "experiment" in interacting with the neighborhood is a joke. Everyone in West Philly hates the Penn kids, and I'm really sick of being accosted by hobos everytime I walk from frogro back to the highrises.</p>
<p>tenesbrousfire- white guys at penn don't walk around in groups?</p>
<p>not the "juveniles" described, no.</p>
<p>or maybe i don't wander campus enough, but i've never seen young white kids wandering around, only skateboarding / bike-jumping in wynn commons.</p>