Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

For example, read Krugman's (a NYC resident) repeated rebuttals (in his Substack) of the administration's continuous mischaracterizations of crime in NYC. And those mischaracterizations have been subsequently repeated here (and elsewhere, I assume) by various know-nothing simps.

Yes, I agree. It's what people do. And have always done. My family lived in the greater Chicago area when I was a teen. And when I got to college, I was surprised to realize how many people there apparently thought gangsters were shooting up the streets regularly. The Untouchables was popular at the time, but even so...

People from the country felt the same way about ancient Rome. Though it, like all cities before the invention of gaslight and then electric light, was dangerous after dark if you didn't have an armed escort consisting of at least a few people.