With this low crime, honesty is easier
In this city who work hard, wheat and cycle time on the edges of backyards, Albert (Buzz) Olson has a new way to sell gas and work in the city as postmaster - at the same time .
It is entirely fait”In Your Honor,’’said the charming owner of service station, pumping gas key to almost all adults in the city - 42 drivers. ”Just click on the button, pump gas fields, its money in the slot and its nature and cheerful. Have you not nickel have not yet lost.”
A service station on the honor system is not only characteristic of Golden Valley County, but it is less representative of the State of North Dakota, as a routine series of the lowest crime rate in the nation . According to Federal Bureau of Investigation statistics for 1994, the latest figures available, North Dakota Nation, the lowest rate of murder, rape low lowest violent crime and the low level of prisoners in detention.
In this city of Fargo to agriculture, the state’s largest city, the low level of crime allows for human behavior seems bizarre by the way.
In January, while a bitter, three days a software component plug cold, Jeff Olson, is not related to Albert Olson, never resume his car during the day.
”For once I car garage in the morning, I come, it will operate for 15 or 17 hours in einem”Parkplatz said Olson, an art gallery Bismarck, the capital of the country with a population of 50000
In New Rockford, Ken Throlson, a buffalo Rancher, it is never the key to the ignition of his break, whatever the weather. He snorted,”It is crazy me, if someone from my family is the key.”
Down in Fargo, people are always dampfenden on the film of the same name, the image of seven murders in two hours. Last year, Fargo recorded a murder.
Federal State, murder was the lowest rate - eight in 1995 - that the authorities have a general rule, the bodies of the shipment of victims of murder for autopsies neighbor Minnesota. But with the Minnesota station recharge as much as $ 15,000 for each autopsy, coincements penny North Dakotans in June and created the Office of public medical examiners.
Experts caution that the new post does not mean that law and order are unraveling on the plateau. North Dakota’s crime rates are essentially the same level they were 15 years ago.
In Fargo, a city dominated by a regular boat Viking Memorial Norwegian pioneers, serious crime is so rare that the local newspaper, the Forum has no full-time journalist in the police beat. After a rash of robberies, police Fargo has made this year to teach the city of 80000 residents to lock their doors and windows when you leave the apartment.
”I have friends in town, do not lock their bikes, their cars, their homes,”Rathge W. Richard, director of the North Dakota State Census Data Center, said Fargo.
Because of low crime rates, security, usually far from the hands of the state and insurance companies cost of auto insurance lowest rate of the nation, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The average duration of the auto insurance premium is $ 467, compared to $ 1106 in New Jersey, the most expensive in the country.
The basket of indicators North Dakota behind the low crime rate for which give an overview of crime are higher elsewhere, criminologists say.
In a state that only 28 currency snatchings and 35 cases of armed attacks during the year 1994, experts cite factors ranging from crime cold much of the rural population and strong families.
Vierzig”unten believes that the riffraff,”cup of hot coffee sold Bismarck, a city known for cold winters.
States with the lowest rates of murder during the year 1994 was at the bottom: North Dakota, Vermont, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Maine and Iowa. The highest rates were murder, in order, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and California.
”North Dakota is cold, and for a number of months of the year, people are outside - in Louisiana, it is year-round,’’said Scott Morgan, a Kansan, published in July, a survey, Crime State rankings in 1996.
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