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The extent of the jurisdiction may be a squishy factor. The "greater metropolitan area" may extend well beyond the strictly-speaking city limits.
by ctdonath 13y ago
The extent of the jurisdiction may be a squishy factor. The "greater metropolitan area" may extend well beyond the strictly-speaking city limits.
- bmelton 13y agoVery fine point. I don't know that I've ever looked at data that represented crime in "a given city" and "surrounding areas". Might indeed be the tipping point. Thanks!
- hga 13y agoIndeed. In the case I'm most familiar with, a whole lot of people decamped from impossible D.C. to Prince George's county, Maryland. Now, to someone who lived in Arlington, Virginia for a dozen years the crime in PG was awful. To someone living in D.C. I strongly suspect PG was not bad at all, and being allowed to own a firearm in your house made I'm sure a significant difference. Or take Boston, which the WASPs kept small after the Irish took over the city; without looking in more detail, the top level Wikipedia page indicates annexations stopped after 1874 with one non-WASP exception (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park,_Boston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park,_Boston).