Mayor Sylvester Turner claps back with statistics after a pastor claims Houston is 'one of, if not the most, dangerous cities in America,' at a sermon.
Mayor Sylvester Turner is firing back at Second Baptist Church Pastor Ed Young after the preacher asserted Houston under Turner is one of the most dangerous cities in America.The war of words between a pastor and Houston's mayor about the city's safety continued Wednesday morning.
During a sermon at Second Baptist Houston in August, Dr. Ed Young said Houston is "one of, if not the most, dangerous cities in America," and he doubled down on that statement last weekend."From a factual point of view, we are certainly not the most dangerous city in the country," Turner said. He also showed a list of homicide rates in other major cities, and those numbers showed Houston had fewer murders than Chicago and Philadelphia. From a "per-capita" standpoint, the data indicates that cities including Indianapolis, Washington D.C., and Baltimore have higher homicide rates than Houston in 2022., which says it uses FBI data to look at all violent crimes in a city. It uses that data to assign a number to how dangerous it considers those cities.
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