Jipson Art asked for more info on my assertion that NYC has a lower crime
rate than suburbs gone wild like Dallas and Atlanta, and that there is no
relation between pop density and crime. Here are the details.
For more, see the forthcoming LBO #62 as well as my social atlas, The
State of the United States, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster this fall.
Apologies for the self-promotion, but such are the pressures of commerce.
Apologies too for any formatting oddities.
Doug
Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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CRIME: PERCEPTION, REALITY, AND POPULATION DENSITY
% seeing violent crimes per population
rankings
city as 100,000 population ----------------- land
-----------------------
unsafe, ------------------ per sq area un-
violent homi- pop
1990 all homicide mile 1,000s (sq mi) safe
crime cide density
Atlanta 39% 4,041.1 50.9 2,989 394 131.8 9
2 3 2
Boston 29% 2,066.4 19.7 12,451 574 46.1 10
8 11 13
Chicago 65% 32.9 12,254 2,784 227.2 5
7 12
Dallas 26% 2,568.3 48.6 2,944 1,008 342.4 12
4 4 1
Detroit 68% 2,727.3 59.3 7,412 1,028 138.7 4
3 2 7
Houston 25% 1,599.9 36.5 3,021 1,631 539.9 13
10 5 3
Los Angeles 64% 2,525.8 28.9 7,426 3,485 469.3 6
5 9 8
Miami 76% 4,252.0 36.4 10,084 359 35.6 2
1 6 10
Minneapolis 11% 1,577.5 17.1 6,703 368 54.9 15
11 12 6
New York 85% 2,318.2 29.3 23,699 7,323 309.0 1
7 8 15
Philadelphia 40% 1,408.0 27.6 11,739 1,586 135.1 8
12 10 11
San Diego 28% 1,219.9 14.7 3,429 1,111 324.0 11
14 13 4
San Francisco 43% 1,645.4 12.9 15,503 724 46.7 7
9 14 14
Seattle 16% 1,356.3 8.1 6,150 516 83.9 14
13 15 5
Washington DC 71% 2,452.3 80.6 9,886 607 61.4 3
6 1 9
correl with
pop dens -0.05 -0.16 -0.62
0.03 0.26
sources crime: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, Sourcebook of
Criminal Justice
Statistics 1992 (Washington, DC, BJS, 1993), tables
2.27 and 3.128
population & land area: Statistical Abstract of the US, 1993
