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"With a crime rate of 40 per one thousand residents, Galesburg has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the
by stillsut 5y ago
"With a crime rate of 40 per one thousand residents, Galesburg has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 25."
Yeah OK, Strongtowns, let's scrutinize the road budgets (~5% of the property taxes). Who wants to live in these hypothetical high density developments when you can't even be safe?
- conjecTech 5y agoTheir argument is that road budgets are a consequence of the same poor designs that lead to conditions that promote crime as well. Busy streets tend to be safer. Additionally, places that aren't economically self-sustaining drive people to property crime. All of this is addressed in the first pages of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities".