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I'm not sure why this argument is persuasive. It would be like saying Palestine, OH is still safe because the risk of cancer per square mile is very good. If an

I'm not sure why this argument is persuasive. It would be like saying Palestine, OH is still safe because the risk of cancer per square mile is very good. If anything, we might naively expect that density itself causes homicide since proximity means opportunity. But on homicide incidence, SF (6.35)¹ tracks closely to the national average (7.8)². Another argument posed in the article is that decriminalization is screwing with record keeping. But for homicides? Homicide is the most difficult to obscure. --- [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... [2]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

gsibble 4y ago
I think crime per sq/mile is a good judge of how safe an area is to walk around in for instance.
- icedistilled 4y ago
  if the crime stats showed the same rate per sq mile for two cities, one with a population of 1M and the other 100k, would you want to go to the 100K city or the 1M city?
  - gsibble 4y ago
    The stat they cited was the total number of murders so really what I'm comparing is murders per square mile.
- threatofrain 4y ago
  Would you say St Louis is a safer city because it looks very clean and classy, well loved by tourists, and also has sparser homicides? Similarly, would you say that Palestine OH is a safer city on biological risks by arguments of geographic sparsity?