Posted on 07/01/2022 7:35:10 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
“Find on Page” doesn’t find it. I’ll look at your other link.
Can’t find it there either.
From what I got from Wikipedia, Atlanta has a murder rate of 16.41 per 100,000.
The worst I see is St. Louis at 66.07. Baltimore: 55.07. Those are the only 2 above 50.
“Many major cities (and states?) are experts at UNDER-reporting their murders and other violent crimes.
This has apparently been going on for quite a few years, and it’s apparently well-known.”
We covered it on FR years ago. Seems a robbery that had someone killed is not reported as a murder or even a robbery. Local politicians label it something like “shop lifting”.
I am not sure that rate is the important number.
Total number of murders in top ten metropolitan areas divided by total number of murders in the entire country is the number we are looking for.
I’ve worked backwards from the rate and the population to calculate the number of murders.
The problem is “top ten metropolitan areas”. The metropolitan table from the FBI doesn’t list the Atlanta area, and there may be other omissions.
There may be a city table. But many times, the population within a city’s city-limits is only a fraction of the population of the metropolitan area, so you don’t get an accurate picture.
But the rate is important too since what I have for Switzerland is the rate, (only 0.5 murders per 100,000). I might try to get to some mixture of U.S. metropolitan areas and rural areas similar to Switzerland.
I think we all know that the murder problems in the U.S. are centered in our large metropolitan areas, mostly ones that have been under Democrat control for 50+ years.
I’ll get back to you.
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