America's most "segregated" city is Milwaukee.

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发布日期: 2016年1月4日
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America's most segregated city is Milwaukee

 

In my spare time, I look at crime statistics across the globe. More specifically, murder rates. And even more specifically, murder rates in the US and UK. Not that there is much to look at in the UK, thankfully.

I'm going to post something soon about why people's perception of crime is wrong and why most newspapers and TV broadcasts get the numbers wrong.

Anyway, in relation to this post, something that I look at on the side (I don't delve much into the causes of crime) is demographics. Clearly, I haven't being paying enough attention, though, because I was shocked to read that the second most segregated city in the US is ... read the article.

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