Mobile Has 3rd Highest Murder Rate

Alabama Mobile  The Mobile area has the 3rd highest murder and manslaughter rate in the country according to the latest FBI statistics.
by Kimberly Curth
Published: Tue, September 15, 2009 - 4:22 pm CST Last Updated: Tue, September 15, 2009 - 4:38 pm CST
MOBILE, Alabama - The Mobile area has the 3rd highest murder and manslaughter rate in the country according to the latest FBI statistics. The 2008 stats are for metropolitan areas. Mobile and Mobile County were ranked together. And Mobile's rate of murder and manslaughter is 16 per 100-thousand people. New Orleans had the highest rate at 22.4. Pine Bluff, Arkansas came in second with 20.8. The Police Chief, the Sheriff, and Mayor all agree the numbers are misleading, "I think it misrepresents the overall crime in the area. I think that it certainly does that. Because, I think if you look at where we are right now compared to other areas of the state we certainly don't have a crime rate that's higher than any other.Mobile is certainly not any more dangerous than any other city in the State of Alabama," said Mobile Mayor, Sam Jones. The FBI cautions people not to take its crime stats out of context because doing so can be misleading. The FBI stats also look at cities in Puerto Rico. If you include them, Mobile's murder rate drops to 7th worst.
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One less thug on the streets of Mobile this morning. Good job MPD! I would tell everyone to look deeper into statistics. Numbers can be skewed to look anyway you want. You can look at the MPD website and get a complete breakdown of crime in the city,even to the point of which races are affected most by which crimes. These are rarely “random” crimes, and mostly isolated to certain areas, and certain lifestyles.jmo of course

Mobile looks like it is well on its way to becoming like Birmingham, Chicago, New York, and Miami.  The crime rate is increasing, while the local tax-base is falling apart due to people leaving for safer places.  If Mobile gets to absorb Prichard, then not only will it have a better improved higher crime rating, but they can work towards becoming number one in numbers of black crimes compared to the other fifty states, too.  They are already number three in the nation ahead of many thousands of other cities in the fifty states in terms of highest murder count. The FBI doesn’t pinpoint individual cities because they don’t want people to know the truth about predominately black ones since that might make them be called racist, so they don’t.  But that does not stop people that are shopping for a new home from checking this important fact out when they look at a city.  The safety of a city and the ethnic makeup are quite important to most people.  A city with very little crime, great neighborhoods, well-maintained streets and highways, low taxes, and great schools are key selling points for people on the lookout for a new home city. Sadly, Mobile fails on every one of these selling points, and the city leaders don’t care about this - money making schemes (can anybody say Moonpie! Moonpie!)take priority. Crime also takes a backseat to bringing in potential millions of dollars into the city (maybe they can buy a cruise ship and lease it?). JMO

What in the heck does all of this senseless rambling have to do with the murder rate in Mobile.  It would appear as if all of you (this page at least) are just bloggers, and are not concerned with the safety of the city.  VOTE OUT THE JUDGES, SET ASIDE MORE MONEY FOR THE ELECTRICITY BILL FOR THE ELECTRIC CHAIR, AND QUIT LETTING CRIMINALS OUT OF JAIL TO COMMIT MULTIPLE CRIMES UNITL THEY KILL SOMEONE.  It doesn’t take a college degree, lawyer, or a politician to explain to me my right to life and to protect the same.

free. You better watch out for squirrels.

So, I am not a citizen if I am married? But if I get out of it,then I will be? Here, I thought I was all legal again! Now,the signature thing creates another problem for me,because I sign his name alot of times.So that will mess the system up right? Now, if I ever have a next Nexus-can I make sure he is house-broken? You know,like pick up his clothes,wash his own darn dishes, and oh yeah,leave the toilet seat down? That is grounds for divorce right there,in the middle of the night, I tell you! And I think I may want that in a contract.

free. Are you an attorney or of another profession that deals with the interpetation of laws of the state and federal government? You keep rambaling on in several of the news stories. May I kindly ask that you make your comment and leave it at that? Your persistence in getting your point through makes you seem more of a conspiracy theorist rather than someone with a viable opinion. I know I have the option to ignore you but I keep hoping that you will write something simple that expresses your opinion and not keep trying to shove it down the readers throat.

Actually SEEK a marriage license creates what is called a Nexus, or link to the federal enclave which strenghtens their case that you desire to be in it. A birth Certificate, Social Security #, voter registration, federal scholarships,or loans even from the federal credit union. Food Stamps,a license plate,vehicle registration. All of these things place you into the federal zone. You can get out though. There are steps to reclaiming your sovereign state Citizenship. Takes a lil time but it can be done. First things first. The only thing of value that you possess is your signature, that’s it period. becasue it is the one thing that allows you to enter contracts , or joinery with creditors. Powerful item your signature! So anytime you sign your name on anything,creditcard receipt anything, you need to print above it clearly ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UCC 1-207,1-103 . Now what this does is protects your rights under the UCC because as the strawman goes he doesn’t have any rights unless he asserts them. That is how to assert them. Do the research and good luck.

too funny! SEEK way funny! By joinery I mean contract with any other fiction. A flesh and blood man /woman cannot enter into a contract with a fictional entity. Example try to work out a contract to mow your lawn with some one on television who is playing character. Can’t be done mate. So someone has to be the representative of the fiction. Now two fictions can enter into a contract ,or agreement , you did with Microsoft when you clicked their lil box of terms and agreements. You registered your name and info , which is not the flesh and blood you but a fiction with MS and agreed to abide by their terms , and failure to do so will revoke the privillage of using their software. Except in the drivers license case you are placed into an adhesion contract whereby the weaker party doesn’t get to bargin ofr a better deal in the contract . Its a take it ,or leave it situation, except they don’t tell you that by signing your name to the license you have placed yourself into a federal enclave under Article 4 of the Constitution which regulates commerce and taxation inside the states. There are four components to a contract and a driver license meets none of them. So where did the crime occur and who was the injured party, ad what was the mechanism of injury? I know right!Happy hunting.

But, I have a marriage certificate, issued by the state, which you are saying says a man and woman can’t be joined. So I was given a false document,right? Now, I am suffering mental anguish that I may have been UN-lawfully wedded all these years. And having those children was no breeze,let me tell ya! There was some pain there! Mercy me!

If the STATE claims to be an injured party in a criminal case then the STATE must allege that a personal injury fairly traceable to the defendant’s allegedly unlawful conduct has occured in order to establish standing, which is a necessary component of subject matter jurisdiction and the alleged violation is let’s say driving while license suspended a criminal misdemeanor, how has the STATE been injured in this act? Where is the evidence of the complaining party? The STATE must allege a PERSONAL injury. If the STATE is a body politic there can be no PERSONAL injury because the STATE would represent the political body and not the individual because no man ,or woman were injured. What was the mechanism of injury sustained. See Allen v Wright,468 U.S. 737,751 (1984) ” The plantiff MUST allege a PERSONAL injury to have standing.” This is a US Supreme Court citation and findings.

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