Why is Fort Hood the Army's most crime-ridden post?

[soryang]

By ROSE L. THAYER | STARS AND STRIPES
Published: August 21, 2020

...Delacruz, 23, was shot and killed along with his pregnant girlfriend Asia Cline, 20, and Army veteran Shaquan Allred, 23. He was the second soldier murdered this year at Fort Hood but not the last.

Between March and June, the deaths of five soldiers have become suspected homicides, more than the past four years combined. At least two veterans who had separated from the Army at Fort Hood within the previous six months were slain. Additionally, two soldiers are alleged to have committed murder. In the previous four years, only two soldiers’ deaths were considered homicides, according to data from the Fort Hood Public Affairs Office. Both died in 2017...

More:

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/why-is-fort-hood-the-army-s-most-crime-ridden-post-1.642104

Interesting article about Fort Hood's crime problem.

[TexasTowelie]

1. Have you ever been to Killeen, Texas?

It explains a lot.

[soryang]

3. Yes

I don't really need to read this article. i was a criminal defense attorney in the Army.

[Lord Ludd]

5. I spent my final 6 months in Uncle's Army at Fort Hood

January-June 1969. There was more entertainment at Hood than in Killeen.

[DonaldsRump]

2. The name, for one thing!

Might as well call it Fort Thug, as an alternative!

Maybe, for good luck, just call it Fort Peace? Or Fort Obama?

[qazplm135]

4. been that way for decades

I was enlisted there in the mid 90s and then later went back briefly to train defense counsel as a defense attorney.

Killeen has always been a craphole in the middle of nowhere, the female to male ratio is like 1 to 10 so you have a lot of guys with no women, nothing to do, and boredom. The location sucks, the only thing there is Fort Hood. The weather sucks pretty much year round. It's hours away from a major city, and the one it's closest to, Austin, is expensive and known mostly for its party and music scene.

Also, lot of gang activity in the area, probably because it's a midpoint for trafficking to points north.

It's just a perfect storm of a lot of different things. I think it would be just as bad proportionally even with no military base, but having a large pool of young 18-24 year old men which is prime crime age doesn't help.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Will Donald keep them away from suburban moms?