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In reply to the discussion: My heart broke today... I just don't understand. [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)You never heard of anything bad happening in a city of 140,000?
That makes no sense.
I live in a city of 35,000. There have been about ten homicides in the ten years I have lived here.
My home town was only 15,000 people. There was plenty of bad things going on in that city. Not that it would make the news, but there was plenty of mean-ness, violence, threats, cruelty, etc. Homicides were pretty rare, but not unheard of.
Looks to me like there were 28 homicides in the last 6 years in Mequite.
and 61 rapes, 1,102 robberies and 1,787 assaults. http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Mesquite-Texas.html
Compared to those, this vandalism is really kinda minor.
It sucks, but it is not a sign of the end of civilization. Not really unprecedented in the USA.