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Does a receptive climate toward immigrants reduce crime?

Radley Balko at Reason thinks he has an answer for why El Paso ranks among the safest large cities in America:"If you want to find a safe city, first determine the size of the immigrant population," says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. "If the immigrant community represents a large proportion of the population, you're likely in one of the country's safer cities. San Diego, Laredo, El Paso?these cities are teeming with immigrants, and they're some of the safest places in the country." ...What's happening with Latinos is true of most immigrant groups throughout U.S. history. "Overall, immigrants have a stake in this country, and they recognize it," Northeastern University's Levin says. "They're really an exceptional sort of American...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).