I suspect the "it is strange, isn't it" portion of the comment was meant to be a separate idea and the commenter just failed to make it a separate paragraph. I

I suspect the "it is strange, isn't it" portion of the comment was meant to be a separate idea and the commenter just failed to make it a separate paragraph. It (the strangeness) is referring to a separate idea in my post, which was the crime level in Washington DC, not the scaling.