another day, another mass shooting

droppedit
Thu, 30 Aug 2018 04:59:36 +0000

… move out of St. Louis and leave it a ghost town …

Already happened! I was just there for a conference. Downtown STL is the oddest place I’ve been to in a long time. Large buildings, fairly clean, no people! We were approached by panhandlers several times a day – all had a complete story and a specific amount of money they needed (e.g. $8.42). Most intersections had police cams above, with their red and blue blinking LEDs. Traffic was always light and didn’t really change from weekend to weekday.

BTW, on a GIS technoweenie note, comparing stats for cities based on population isn’t informative because the “population” of a city varies significantly based on how you define its borders. For example, Atlanta itself has a relatively small population of around 500,000. The ATL Metro has around 10X that.