The death of a man whose body was found in Butte is now being investigated as a homicide in Anchorage, Alaska State Troopers said Monday. That would bring the city to a record number of homicides in a calendar year.
The body of Anchorage man Weston Gladney, 36, was found in the Jim Creek recreation area of Butte, in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, on Dec. 2.
"Investigation by troopers has determined that the homicide occurred in Anchorage," Alaska State Troopers spokesman Tim DeSpain said. "At this time there is no additional information available for release in regards to this ongoing investigation."
Gladney's killing was the 35th homicide in Anchorage in 2017, police said – a new record. In 2016, there were a total of 34 homicides in the city, which also set a record.
Of course these statistics may seem minor when compared to big cities, but keep in mind that Anchorage has less than 300,000 people living there.
And yet Forbes Magazine once ranked us the tenth most dangerous city.
It should come as some comfort that most of those murdered knew their killers, or were involved in criminal activity.
In other words every day citizens of the city should feel relatively safe. (Or as safe as you can feel when every other asshole is probably carrying a gun.)
but but but Detroit! Chicago!!
ReplyDeleteArctic Temperatures Are Rising So Fast Computers Don’t Believe They’re Real
ReplyDeleteAn algorithm concluded a weather station in northern Alaska must have broken because it was reporting such high temperatures.
320 miles north of the Arctic Circle, a weather station in America’s northernmost city of Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, has been quietly collecting temperature data since the 1920s.
Early this month, while preparing a report on U.S. climate, experts at the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) noticed something odd: They were missing data from Utqiaġvik for all of 2017, and some of 2016.
It turns out the temperatures recorded at Utqiaġvik over that time were warmer than had ever seen before. So much so, in fact, that an automated computer system set up to police data and remove irregularities had flagged it as unreal and excluded it from the report.
Here’s how Deke Arndt, chief of NOAA’s Climate Monitoring Branch, explained the event:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arctic-temperatures-rising-fast-reported-false_us_5a316487e4b07ff75affaa1f?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
Yeah there are parts I won’t go to when I visit. It’s very much on par with Detroit and nawlins. Honestly though, even cities that used to have no issues with big crime are changing. The world is turning. You can feel it. Drug addiction is skyrocketing higher every day. And there’s still a stigma attached to help centers.
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