Actually it has one of the highest crime rates in the country....

@Lizard_of_Ahaz According to the article, Detroit is #1. I was holding out for Houston because it used to be rated #1 for murders, narrowly beating out Miami.

It didn't say what kind of crimes. Violent? Homicide? Shop lifting? Wife beating? Nepotism? Instead it sounds like the easiest place to get arrested.

@WonderWartHog99 You are looking at cities not all municipalities... Also the way they act you forgot the one they are most likely to commit.... Incest...

@Lizard_of_Ahaz Cities are municipalities. If you live in a city, it always comes with a municipal government. On the far extreme, I've lived in one too many places I call hamlets because they were content to let the county provide government services.

The last time I lived in a hamlet was Hickory Tavern (no tavern, lots of hickory trees) SC. One traffic light, one gas station, one seat barber shop (open on Wednesday) and an elementary school.

they act you forgot the one they are most likely to commit.... Incest...

Places where you're likely to find high rates of incest are in places with high poverty rates. If you can't afford a mistress or a lady of the evening, do your daughter (the most common form of incest) instead. Minor point: the story has nothing to do with incest. That leads me to wonder if you have an obsession with incest.

@WonderWartHog99 And not all municipalities are cities.... Most are so small they barely qualify as a town. Weed CA is one of those [en.wikipedia.org]

@WonderWartHog99 As for Meridian Miss. it is far from town sized and is a petulant shithole of criminal activity...
" If this sort of case was thrown onto the desk of another small town police department, one that, say, was located in a community with few serious crimes, it would be fine for the department to pursue what is, essentially, an exercise in the misuse of police time and energy. People—including police officers­—get bored and need something to occupy their time. Meridian, unfortunately, is not one of those sleepy towns.

According to Neighborhood Scout, a website owned by a research and data-mining company that collects crime statistics from around the country, Meridian is—and I'm paraphrasing here—sketchy as fuck. Based on a crime index of 0 to 100—100 being a crime-free utopia and 0 being the inside of one of Trevino Morales's vats of acid—Meridian gets a four. By way of comparison, Brooklyn, New York, clocks in at 40. Detroit, one of the most dangerous cities in America, is a two."

@Lizard_of_Ahaz And not all municipalities are cities.

If one uses the Oxford dictionary, the synonym of town is city. Either uses an incorporation style of a municipality. Sometimes one hears "Boston town" for a city so large it's often difficult to establish when one leaves Boston and enters into a neighboring town. That's the point where one starts to swing around the term megalopolis and start watching for Superman.

>Neighborhood Scout, a website owned by a research and data-mining company that collects crime statistics from around the country, Meridian is—and I'm paraphrasing here—sketchy as fuck.

Neighborhood Scout rates the WHOLE town as a seven, not a four. If one looks at the site's crime map, it's clear where it gets its high crime rate: inner city. Maybe it's me, but I have a feeling the church we're talking about didn't bury their founder there.

On the other extreme their Bailey and Pine city district rates safer than most cities at 100.

Shall we head to funky town? 🥵

Yeah they should have taken a shit on it right?...

Well, no.