Division Street

(Detroit - Top; New York - Bottom)

Detroit is keeping pace with New York City's murders in 2012 simply by raw numbers. Last night in Detroit there were three more murders, yet to be included in the graphic above. Of course, Detroit has about 1/11th the population of New York City.

If Detroit (generously, 750,000 residents) had its present murder rate, and New York's population (about 8.25 million people) that would equal 660 murders. Proportionally, at this point in 1993 (three years after NYC homicide numbers peaked at 2245 for the year) New York's murder total stood at about 315. So Detroit is more than doubling that rate so far this year.

Last year, all but 19 of Detroit's 344 murder victims were black. Even while Detroit is 90% black as a city, that means 95% of murder victims were black.

Police can arrest all they want. They can restrict access to guns -- and they should, forcefully, but they won't because this is Michigan, home to insane white people who want all the guns in the world so they can protect themselves from "savage blacks" who have inexplicable access to cheap guns.

Detroit's gone through decades of poverty, neglect, corruption, and economic corrosion. It will take years of new jobs and reeducation to change the culture from the kind of desperation that cheapens life, to one that has something to live for. That, or a seismic change from the monstrously wealthy suburbs, in which they suddenly start investing in the city instead of clucking their tongues at it.

Iran has no nuclear weapons, a vested interest in continuing to exist as a nation state, and a fledgling nuclear program.

Pakistan has 100 nuclear weapons, myriad militant groups within its borders mortally opposed to Israel's existence, and an incredibly weak central government whose ability to control its nuclear arsenal is continually questioned.

So, why the hell is Israel so worried about Iran? Israel's leaders lie when they say it's about Iran's desire to destroy Israel. They know Iran won't actually use a nuclear weapon because it would be suicidal, and the regime, though inconvenient for Israel to admit, is not suicidal. Israel just doesn't want Iran to have that bargaining chip in regional politics.

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