boston murder rate would be X murders versus 600,000 population los angeles murder rate would be X murders versus 4 million population
the los angeles murder rate would include many more crime free neighborhoods than the boston murder rate think about the way that the average usa city is laid out - there is the downtown area full of highrises - then there are the higher crime neighborhoods and maybe some rich enclaves - then there are the low crime residential areas boston mass basically just covers the downtown core and a couple of higher street crime neighborhoods - the crime free suburbs are not included in the boston street crime statistics los angeles is different - los angeles includes the downtown area - plus some high crime areas - plus the richer western enclave - plus all of residential low crime san fernando valley moral of the story - we need to find the murder rates for the metro areas of the USA - iirc the Census Bureau calls them the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas ish you can bet that the murder rate is 100 times lower for beverly hills vs los angeles - because beverly hills is a seperate city which is wealthy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKYhkmLBb5uZk%2BoD7cXtAO9gZAKgQ8K7oqDg0xMA0X6z3g%40mail.gmail.com.
