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Originally posted by Polyphobic
I live in the Denver metro area. Denver itself averages 8 murders per 100,000 people a year. Denvers population is 550,000. So roughly 40 murders a year. I have no clue what the whole metro area averages. We have a decent gang problem and a fair amount of drugs. Our Meth labs have been going crazy lately. There seems to be a bust of a decent sized lab every month. It's not a safe place to live but fairly typical of most US metro areas.
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Poly, I live in Colo Spgs. A lot like Denver, but on a much smaller scale. We have our drugs, meth has seemed to become the "popular" drug, and also what the cops have been busting down on a lot lately. I don't particularly think we have a gang problem, more of a "wannabe-gang" problem, which I think can be worse, cause often times it's teens who "wannabe" something they're not.
Had some hispanic teens at the "downtown" park flash their switchblades at me the other day, and one of them started following me across the street. I stopped in the middle of the road and made a little bit of a scene, pointed at an ambulance across the street, and told him to go ahead and try something. I stood there till he turned and walked away (lots of motorists were honking and getting angry), but figured with people being as they are, they'd only get out to help if you were blocking their means of transportation.