Jackson Jambalaya

Jackson has 13 burglaries in a matter of hours. So much for the warnings of contagion from Jackson crime apologists.

Are you sure that isn't a one date report from Jacktown???

Madison is a great place to live, work, and raise a family. Kudos to the leadership at all levels. As our society continues to coarsen, crime will worsen and extra vigilance will be required. I believe Madison is up to the task!

I think these statistics are made up. The land of milk and honey has zero crime. We live in blissful harmony (particularly in Reunion).

Is this Madison or just the closest thing to Utopia on Earth? It is almost a cheap shot to release this....poor Jackson has to have their crime stats like the stock market, changing in real time. A report would be outdated the moment it was typed up.

Who validates/audits this data? I have heard of several cases in Madison that were re-categorized for more favorable UCR classification (gotta keep that safest ton rating at all costs).

NIBRS provides a more data rich and contextual representation of what's going on in a community.

3 ... 2 ... 1 before someone shows up to claim that Kingfish only published this to inflame the "anti-Jackson contingent".

There are older neighborhoods in Madison that suffer petty thefts regularly.

Just like some girls at Ole Miss are not pretty. Just nobody wants to acknowledge it.

One hypothetical statistic conveniently left off:

Municipal Uncollected Debt increased by 1000%

Looks like the stats from a very slow weekend in Jackson. Or a normal night In Jackson.

Madison, replacing Pearl as the strip mall capital of the south. Y'all just keep telling yourselves that those Corinthian order columns make it less of a strip mall.

One rape and less than ten burglaries, don't be fooled there were several more rapes, and at least 5 times the burglaries reported. If you only could see the juvenile court records you would know this doesn't add up.

Any crime in Madison is just purely impossible, it just cant be. The elected leaders of Madison know best.... I'm so convinced they are "up to the task" its just a wonderful place and everyone is so happy there. Its just like going to Walt Disney World (only with better architectural guidance). I've never seen an ugly girl at Ole Miss, surely they keep those locked in a dungeon somewhere. Like I've always said, Madison ain't Mississippi, people just keep making that handful of land developers and "public servants" richer and richer. You drive out the "back gate" and back there you are, deep in the "Heart of Dixie"......

Don't be fooled. 12:28 PM can't prove anything.

Madison is a great place to live and this crime report proves it to a certain point. Whatever they are doing is working.

GIGO

Madisonites live quite harmoniously, especially in Reunion.

Back when I last looked at the UCR tables, the most informative table was, I seem to recollect, Table 42, listing crimes by race of victim and perceived race of perpetrator. The numbers were so out of whack that the FBI began in 2006, I think it was, to count hispanics as White when they were perpetrators but black if they were victims.

True story.

Your right 1:09 you can't prove selective prosecutions but don't tell me it doesn't happen. I live in house with teenagers, I here it all.

We have lived in Madison since 1981 and are personally unaware of ANY crime perpetrated in our neighborhoods during the past 37 years. Mayor Hawkins has been our mayor for more than 30 of those years. Obviously, she is doing something right.

I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry.

With these stats, all of California will be moving here soon...

"One rape and less than ten burglaries, don't be fooled there were several more rapes, and at least 5 times the burglaries reported. If you only could see the juvenile court records you would know this doesn't add up."

Where's your evidence. I suspect you're talking out your ass. If you had walkin' around sense you also know one cannot 'see juvenile court records'.

Oh, but wait! Somebody posted he lives in a house with teenagers and 'hears it all', so there's your backup!

When people who live in unruly communities are jealous of the stats in another community, they are at liberty to claim the data are made up and things are terrible everywhere. If that makes them feel better, fine. But, they're still living in an unsafe community. And, there's that.

After just reading this 2017 crime report for the City of Madison I thank God that my zip code is 39110.

I personally wish all metro communities well, but I can’t help but wonder if the same “don’t say bad things about Jackson” people on the Smith Park thread...aren’t the same people who come to this thread and repeatedly bash Reunion pineapples and Niknar.

My guess is that a good percentage of the Madisonites on this blog (and there are many) spend a lot of time bashing Jxn and Niknar (as you say). My only problem with Madisonites is their self-infatuation, yet they live in Mississippi (a hell hole of a state). You’d think they were living on 5th Ave in Manhattan with their misplaced arrogance.

One need only to look in the Mayor’s office. On staff is a hire that is the liaison between city hall and MONA. This liaison has boasted that s/he can track any data online or on airways. The police data may be skewed through the manipulation of such data at city hall or perhaps the police are in on it. Either way, homeowners’ associations know the truth. Keep the data numbers low at all cost. Liason’s spouse just sits and views all cameras in and around the city. It’s a farce. Yes it’s arrigance at its best.