But right now in 2022, when it comes to the scariest crimes, as in people killing people – Seattle’s per capita murder rate isn’t even in the top ten ... or the top 20 ... or the top 50
First I want to disclose my bias up front – my first news job was as a police reporter in Atlanta in 1973. Atlanta back then was theI remember one weekend when 12 people were killed, bad enough that Mayor Sam Massell called the media into his office, and once the cameras were rolling, he looked straight into them and said – and I’m paraphrasing – “If you’re thinking of shooting somebody, please put down the gun.
In 1974, my second year on the job, the editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was kidnapped. That same year Martin Luther King Jr.’s mother was assassinated as she sat playing the organ at the Ebeneezer Baptist Church. One of the reasons we left Atlanta was that it didn’t seem like a safe place to raise a family.But, to me, it’s not even close., no matter what city you’re in, the crime rate might as well be 100%.
I remember how I felt when my parents came home to find the house burglarized, and my grandmother was locked in her bathroom by some kid who went through her house. If it were up to me that kid would still be in jail today.But right now in 2022, when it comes to the scariest crimes, as in people killing people – Seattle’s per capita murder rate isn’t even in the top ten … or the top 20 … or the top 50. It’s 77th, with 3.74 killings per 100,000 people each year.
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