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Originally Posted by prelude91
Not picking on your post, but why do we justify our embarrassingly high murder count by saying it is restricted to a small portion of the city? Shouldn't that make the situation even that much more urgent? I understand less people are impacted when it is contained, but my god, we have really let portions of this city rot away...
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I don't think anybody justifies the high murder count, but it is a way of defending from people who think the entire city is dangerous. That is the truth of it is, but my post was not trying to turn a blind eye to the issues we face. It is merely showing that it is not necessarily as spread out this year (at least for homicide - point is that those 58 homicides in the past would have been about 30 homicides in Austin and the 28 elsewhere - this year it's way up percentage wise there) than most people might think. It's actually more centralized to these areas this year than other years. It is a big issue - and obviously there's a big reason for why that needs to be fixed.