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Why does land area matter exactly?
by SirFatty 1y ago
Why does land area matter exactly?
- kstrauser 1y agoIt doesn't, at all. It's born from the same complaint that, say, NYC outvotes the rest of the state although it's only a tiny portion of the total size.
- sugarpimpdorsey 1y agoBecause it permits such nonsensical statements such as "France has more murders per year than London" (therefore London is safer by comparison QED). When you can draw arbitrary borders, you can make the numbers mean whatever you want.
- dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp 1y agoCrime counts are normalized to crime rates with respect to population, not land area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... And you'll see that Washington D.C. doesn't make the top ten for rates of any of the major violent crimes (murder, rape, etc.) nor for the "Total" violent crime.