Originally shared by David Brin
Californians are 30% less likely to die a violent death today than other Americans. Since 1980, California’s rate of reported crime overall has fallen by 62%. The state’s criminal arrest rates, too, have fallen considerably, by 55% overall, and by 80% among people younger than 18 — a population, it is worth noting, that is now 72% nonwhite.
Violent crime in California has fallen by an impressive 50% in the same period. This includes drops in robberies (65%), homicide (68%), and rapes and assaults (more than 40%). That last figure is even more remarkable when you consider that the legal definitions of both assault and rape were expanded during these years.
Wanna point at Chicago? An outlier that is less blue and less immigrant rich, and far smaller than CA. Oh, and California generates inventions and jobs faster than anyone. Texas keeps sending governors here to try to raid and poach our companies. Um, why? Can’t generate your own?
Efficient government, top schools and universities… and sure filled with problems… that are being handled better than any red state. Why? How? We haven’t abandoned the formula of the Greatest Generation. We have unions, universities, infrastructure, tolerance and the rich pay taxes. And business flourishes.
Oh, one more thing. We like being a little bit funky-crazy. It’s cool. It is one of many reasons why we’re the sane ones.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-males-california-crime-immigration-20170221-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-males-california-crime-immigration-20170221-story.html