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Study: Maine the most peaceful U.S. state, Louisiana the least
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| Contributor | Bob |
| Last Edited | Bob Apr 06, 2011 05:20pm |
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| Author | Brett Michael Dykes |
| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 6, 2011 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A study by the Institute for Economics and Peace finds that Maine is the most peaceful state in the country, while Louisiana is the least peaceful.
The inaugural United States Peace Index purports to be the first state-by-state ranking of America based on levels of peace. The group's standard for measuring a state's serenity was rather simple: "absence of violence." Using data compiled from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the group focused on homicide rates, percentage of population that is jailed, availability of small arms, number of police officers and overall violent crime rate.
And despite what you may think, with all the mass public protests going on around the country in the last couple of years, the index claims that America is getting more peaceful as a whole, with neither Republican nor Democratic states having any sort of an advantage over each other. |
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