# Mollie Tibbetts missing college student (allegedly) killed by illegal alien **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 22, 2018, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mollie-tibbetts-missing-college-student-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/820030 "2018-08-22T06:38:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mollie-tibbetts-missing-college-student-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/820030/9 "2018-08-22T07:20:04Z")
> [@Will the pro amnesty and sanctuary city movements hurt democrats?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-pro-amnesty-and-sanctuary-city-movements-hurt-democrats/810956/51): > > … Cities of equal size and equal economic status have an equal number of major crimes, regardless of their population demographic. … Really? How did you conclude this? The FBI’s UCR for 2016 shows that large cities (GROUP I) have a violent crime _rate_ that is roughly double small cities (GROUPS III, IV, V, and VI) and suburbs. [Cite](https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/table-11) Furthermore, the City of Chicago (third largest city in America, with a population of 2.7M) had a whopping 765 murders in 2016. Houston (fourth largest city in America, with a population of 2.3 million) only had 301 murders. Hell, you could _combine_ Houston with LA (the second largest city in America) and they _still_ wouldn’t match Chicago’s total murders. [Cite](https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/tables/table-4) As for “equal economic status” bit, I don’t know what specific metrics you’ve looked at, but when [Business Insider ranked the 40 largest cities’ economies](https://www.businessinsider.com/us-economy-by-metro-area-ranked-san-francisco-seattle-austin-2018-4), Chicago was #36 and Houston was #34. That would appear to be pretty damn close. What, in your mind, explains the sky-high murder rate of Chicago when compared with Houston? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mollie-tibbetts-missing-college-student-allegedly-killed-by-illegal-alien/820030)._