06-01-2015, 10:23 AM
(05-29-2015, 05:24 PM)fredtoast Wrote: This is a common fallacy. The crime rates are not really that much higher now than they were back in the 70's and 80's.
In the neighbourhood i grew up in it was no fallacy. When you put up 20 high rise buildings that are all govt housing a few blocks away, it went from a neighborhood to a hood fairly quickly.
those building went up in the mid 80s fyi.