the butler in the library

Today I learned by reading a headline that homicides are soaring in Tucson, so we're all going to die. The thing is that if you read the article, it says that homicides are up everywhere, not just here, and here, in an area with a million people, there were only 69 murders so far this year. I think that when I was in high school back home, the city next door managed that before breakfast, and they only had about 25,000 people.

Ok, I just looked it up and did some very minor mathematics: if that city had been the size of Tucson, we would have lost about 1700 people in a year. I guess there was a reason the FBI or whoever came in and cleaned that place up.