#inner cities

Alvin Curran (performed by Gabriella Smart) - Inner Cities

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Westmoreland County is a beautiful, peaceful rural area with one of the lowest homicide rates in the country. It's also 93.5% white and almost all homicides are committed by blacks or immigrants.

Washington, DC - In 23 years as Westmoreland County's top prosecutor, District Attorney John Peck has learned it is impossible to anticipate the number of homicide cases his office will prosecute in a year. But one thing that Peck does know however, is that whatever that number of homicides will be, it'll be lower than other Pennsylvania counties like Philadelphia. Last year, Philadelphia had the dubious honor of racking up the highest number of homicides in the state of Pennsylvania and being among the top counties in the country for homicides, at a staggering 314. That's almost one homicide a day. The reason why Westmoreland County see's less than 5 percent of the number of homicides that Philadelphia sees is clear - Westmoreland is 95.3 percent white. This county is a microcosm of well-known, well-studied trends of violent crime - that non-whites commit a disproportionately high amount of violent crimes. Of course an area that is nearly all-white will have a much lower rate of crime than one that is more "diverse."

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Peck, who was first elected in 1994, said,

"You can never tell, because that number really does fluctuate every year. And there is really no explanation for it."

"Some years we could have a dozen, and other years maybe only four. You never really know."

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Opinion

George Floyd, a thug, a drug dealer, and user died at the hands (knee) of a Police Officer.

Unfortunately, somehow, after his death, George Floyd was elevated to a symbol of sainthood in Ghettos around The USA!

As a Black man, I am fascinated by this incongruous and inappropriate elevation to the apotheosis of a damn near Godlike presence in The Black Community.

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