Holland&Holland wrote:Ironbear wrote:@MJY65 Was thinking the same thing. Many of the places that have high numbers, have high populations. Naturally they would have higher numbers. The interesting thing that this shows is that focusing on limited regions and neighborhoods would have a disproportionate effect. Oh wait... that would be profiling!
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Maybe, but a death is a death. I would contend that just because you have a higher population does not mean you need to have more murders.
Well, it kind of does. All else being equal (it's not), you'd expect the murder RATE to be the same throughout the country/state. If that were the case, the raw number of murders should be proportional to population. If you used the same click bait headline and applied it to Minnesota, you would say that the overwhelming majority of murders in MN occur in 2% of the counties (Hennepin and Ramsey, 2 of 87). That's true, but they also account for over 30% of the population in the state. The headline is misleading.
The truth seems to be that high density areas (and their particular demographic) have BOTH higher raw murder numbers and murder rates, but the headline deliberately sensationalizes the disparity.