03-07-2023, 04:57 PM
(03-07-2023, 04:15 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: It is worth noting that the modern day United States is significantly less violent than it was when you were a kid. I am not sure of your exact age, so I will just throw a few years out. In 1970, the murder rate was 7.9 per 100k residents. Last year, it was 6.4, and that is with an increase. Throughout the 2010's, it was in the mid 4's.
In 1974, the murder rate was 9.7.
In 1980, it was 10.2.
The modern U.S. has roughly cut the murder rate in half since you were a kid. There may be more overall murders, but the population is significantly larger. Since 1980, the country has grown by over 100MM people. Overall murders have barely risen (depends on the year you look at, they have likely dropped), and the murder rate has significantly dropped.
Now, Louisville KY has gotten more violent. Murders have gone up but population has gone down.
Those statistics don't tell the whole story. In the 1970's, Ben Taub hospital was one of the few true Level 1 trauma centers in the US. Now, almost every major city has at least one. People are much more likely to live through a shooting now than they were there. It parallels soldiers dying in combat. They are much more apt to survive now than they were in Korea or WWII. And it starts in the golden hour, you know have rescue units with highly trained paramedics there within minutes, as opposed to they used to take shooting victims to the hospital in the back of the police paddy wagon. To get an accurate picture, look at shootings as opposed to murders. And you're right, Louisville is currently in the middle of gang wars and has become very dangerous.
