LA:

654 murders (17.1 per 100,000)

1,415 rapes (36.9 per 100,000)

Pretty sure Milwaukee beats that easily.

ETA: 111 murders (18.3 per 100,000); 326 rapes (53.8 per 100,000)

It's easy for me to convince myself that no one I know would kill me.

Or at any rate, that I deserved it.

my zip code:

Population (2000): 71,308 Zip code 11372 satellite photo by USGS Housing units: 25,398 Land area: 0.7 sq. mi. Water area: 0.0 sq. mi.

White population: 35617 Black population: 2074 American Indian population: 452 Asian population: 12220 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population: 62 Some other race population: 15892 Two or more races population: 4991

Urban population: 71308 Rural population: 0

Median age: 34.8 Average household size: 2.86 Median household income (1999): $39084

So far I think I'm ahead in the "whitest home town" game....

I can't remember how white we are, but 47% have a bachelor's.

Also, the way they do distance is confusing to me. Is it from the center of Downtown? Because they have Boeing Field as being 8 miles from the city, but it's within city limits, and the north end of it is 5 miles from downtown, seeing as that's where I live and all.

Also, no crime stats listed for San Francisco. Whuh?

And having absolutely nothing to do with American towns, though it does concern America, what's the American equivalent of Digestive biscuits?

what's the American equivalent of Digestive biscuits?

Graham crackers?

this is what I really love on my zip code page:

First ancestries reported:

* Other groups: 45848 * Irish: 2116 * Italian: 1903 * United States or American: 1341 * Polish: 1267 * Russian: 1053 * German: 939 * West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 764 * Ukrainian: 451 * Arab:: 428 * English: 396 * Romanian: 390 * Greek: 359 * Brazilian: 322 * Subsaharan African:: 263 * Jamaican: 261 * Hungarian: 226 * French (except Basque): 199 * Afghan: 181 * Croatian: 173 * Egyptian: 164 * African: 160 * Guyanese: 157 * Austrian: 152 * European: 148 * Arab/Arabic: 146 * Serbian: 140 * West Indian: 139 * Haitian: 139 * Turkish: 119 * Yugoslavian: 114 * Eastern European: 99 * Czech: 91 * Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 87 * Scotch-Irish: 86 * Scottish: 83 * Portuguese: 79 * British West Indian: 76 * Armenian: 74 * Canadian: 68 * British: 68 * Swedish: 64 * Israeli: 62 * Moroccan: 60 * French Canadian: 52 * Czechoslovakian: 48 * Latvian: 47 * Dutch: 47 * Lithuanian: 45 * Bulgarian: 39 * Swiss: 39 * Other Subsaharan African: 37 * Belgian: 34 * Lebanese: 30 * Norwegian: 29 * Ethiopian: 29 * Basque: 27 * Welsh: 25 * Albanian: 24 * Iranian: 22 * Celtic: 22 * Cape Verdean: 21 * Palestinian: 21 * Barbadian: 20 * Slovak: 20 * South African: 16 * Dutch West Indian: 14 * Slavic: 10 * Belizean: 10 * Other West Indian: 10 * Danish: 9 * Slovene: 8 * Bermudan: 8 * Soviet Union: 7 * Syrian: 7

Jars, I think maybe oatmeal cookies are close, though not quite.

Or possibly something like the unholy offspring of graham crackers and oatmeal cookies, but still not quite. Digestives don't really have an exact parallel cookie in the US, for which we are all the poorer.

Do you mean the American word for them, or the equivalent kid comfort food cookie?