There is something fundamentally flawed with this and I can’t pinpoint it.
Don’t we have to see population density? Shouldn’t the statistical analysis be normalized by density or even plotted vs density rather than per-capita.
Everybody knows So Cal is the car theft capitol of the world, yet it doesn’t even register on the charts presented.
+2.6 STd represents about 1.9% — meaning that all those solid red area’s shown, represent the top 1.9% of troublesome areas for that statistic.
Worthless information without density distribution.
And there are maps that show major variances to the right side of the curve, but nothing to the left? It seems you can’t have one tail of a bell curve without the other tail.