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Because it permits such nonsensical statements such as "France has more murders per year than London" (therefore London is safer by comparison QED). When you c
by sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago
Because 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.