Over the last two decades the crime rate in the US declined sharply. According to statistics from the FBI, violent crime fell by 50% between 1993 and 2015. However, people’s perception of crime does not always coincide with the official statistics. For example, research conducted by the online Gallup, indicate that the majority of Americans from year to year I believe that crime rates have risen significantly compared to last…

Is it possible to buy the street? Residents of Presidio Terrace, private streets, one of the most exclusive communities in San Francisco, I learned the answer to this question from their own sad experience. After the homeowners ‘ Association did not pay taxes for 30 years, the road was sold at auction, according to the newspaper San Francisco Chronicle. A couple from San Jose bought it for 90 000 dollars….

New York is surrounded by water. However, swimming in the Hudson, as in any other natural body of water city, it’s hard not to count madness. In one of the largest port districts – port of new York and new Jersey – come thousands of ships, waste water manage to get into the river, bypassing the treatment plant, and occasionally on the surface of the body of the drowned man….

In Farmingdale, long island, raccoon caught in a difficult (for him), but funny (for witnesses) regulations. Trying to eat the remnants of peanut butter from the jar, which was apparently thrown in the trash, the animal climbed to the jar head and, of course, stuck. In a panic, the raccoon ran through the yard of a house, while the witnesses of the incident called the public organization «Wild animals in…