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Originally Posted by viscousmemories
Hmm. That's an interesting case study, wade, but I can't seem to find much in the way of solid statistics on Kennesaw. I see that the law was enacted in 1982 when the city had a population of 5,000, and that the crime rate "plummeted" and stayed low despite the population growing to 19,000 by 1996. What I can't find is what the crime rates were before. After all, if there were 10 burglaries in 1981 then a 35% drop isn't much of a plummet. Do you know of any online sources on that?
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Kennesaw has a very low crime rate still.
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Crime in Kennesaw (2002):
* 0 murders (0.0 per 100,000)
* 2 rapes (8.8 per 100,000)
* 4 robberies (17.6 per 100,000)
* 19 assaults (83.8 per 100,000)
* 60 burglaries (264.7 per 100,000)
* 426 larceny counts (1879.6 per 100,000)
* 24 auto thefts (105.9 per 100,000)
* City-data.com crime index = 133.6 (higher means more crime, US average = 330.6)
Crime in Kennesaw (2001):
* 0 murders (0.0 per 100,000)
* 0 rapes (0.0 per 100,000)
* 7 robberies (31.5 per 100,000)
* 15 assaults (67.6 per 100,000)
* 51 burglaries (229.8 per 100,000)
* 370 larceny counts (1666.8 per 100,000)
* 24 auto thefts (108.1 per 100,000)
* City-data.com crime index = 117.1 (higher means more crime)
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I looked and looked and couldn't find another city of 20,000 with less than a crime index of 200 anywhere. Green River, Wyoming, pop. 11K, has a crime index of 170 and it probably has almost as many guns per household as Kennesaw, but Green River isn't anywhere near a city with a high crime rate.