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Wow, you're not kidding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer,_Alabama#Economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer,_Alabama#Economy "Crime increased foll
by Diederich 6y ago
Wow, you're not kidding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer,_Alabama#Economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer,_Alabama#Economy
"Crime increased following the rise in unemployment and social disruption from the decline of manufacturing industries in the area. As of 2019 Bessemer ranks first in terms of violent crimes for US cities with 25,000 or more people."
Population has fallen from its peak in 1970 of 33k to 26k today.
Thanks for the reference.
EDIT: Also home to the world's oldest chicken, who lived 16 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(chicken) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_(chicken)
- kpennell 6y agothx for the chicken edit
- kryogen1c 6y ago> Also home to the world's oldest chicken, who lived 16 years frowns in Colorado https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
- Bluestein 6y agoI hereby humbly move to make Matilda the Chicken (or Mike, the Headless) the oficial Amazon mascot. Votes welcome :) Funny enough, I have no heavenly idea how, I had actually run into the article on poor Mike before.- Further edit: Come to think, poor Mike the "headless" would be a great mascot for -at least- AWS, for obvious, ssh-related reasons :)
- dennis_jeeves 6y agoMatilda can also be the president :)
- Bluestein 6y agoNice call! VP of ... "Customer Engagement"? Prime? ... ... I got it! "Incubator"! I'll show myself out ...
- FearlessNebula 6y agoI'm stupid, but why does unemployment cause violent crime?
- soledades 6y agoUnemployment -> desperation -> crime
- natchy 6y agoTrue, also add extra time on your hands. Poverty + boredom.
- chad_strategic 6y agoUnemployment -> desperation = Revolution or Riots or Crime or Terrorism
- colinmhayes 6y agoChoices are about incentives. If you feel you've got nothing to lose you're willing to risk it all.
- zwkrt 6y agoYou’re not stupid you’ve just never had to deal with a real actual problem in your life. Unemployment is a cause of or certainly concomitant with having very high stress and a very poor outlook on the future. In a town like Bessemer the thought process is something like “I don’t have a job, I’m not going to get one, I have no money, and this situation is not going to change.” And it’s not just you thinking this, you see your friends and family having the same problems. You reach out for help but after a while the good graces of others run out. So do unemployment checks. After a few months you get evicted, so no one else will rent to you, and you are either homeless or at least not in control of your living situation. A slum lord may be involved. The food bank (which was already not a great source of food) is now useless since you need a kitchen to make most of the raw supplies they hand out. The stress and pressure to take care of ones self and ones family under these conditions often leads so serious mental health issues, drug use, and domestic violence. For some it leads to other crimes like stealing, mostly stealing food or stealing things to buy food and drugs. You see your friends falling victim to these issues, getting arrested, dying of exposure, or losing themselves to mental illness. Prospects don’t look good.
- uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 6y agoThe stats for the chicken have a hatched/died pair, thats neat.