Dreamer said:
That is a BRILLIANT bit of statistical illustration, MKEgal. THANKS!
The database did all the work, I just cut & paste (& added color, which is harder than it looks!).
some of the anomolous cities... remove the homicides committed by people with ties to Mexican drug cartels
Well, at least in FL, I did remove a high-crime city which is also high-illegal-alien-population.
I dithered between using cities that were all near Baltimore, or cities across the US, & settled on several across the country but removing cities I expected to have high-illegal-alien-population.
But then I started on the column below, for the cities I'd left in (& added 2 I'd removed), & I'm seeing a disturbing trend loosely associated with the ratio of people who are white, black, & brown.
overall
violent crime,
murder ,
rape,
robbery, ag. assault ;
% population white / black / hispanic
Baltimore, MD . . (
pop. 638,755) . . 34w / 64b / 4h
1,512.9,
37.3,
24.7,
580.3, 870.6
Washington, DC . . (
pop. 599,657) . . 39w / 59b / 9h
1,265.1,
23.8,
25.0,
666.7, 549.5
Indianapolis . . (
pop. 813,471) . . 62w / 28b / 9h
1,199.8,
12.3,
56.5,
483.0, 648.0
Miami . . (
pop. 419,205) . . 73w / 19b / 70h
1,188.7,
14.1,
15.5 ,
499.5 , 659.6
Milwaukee, WI . . (
pop. 604,673) . . 45w / 40b / 17h
1,088.9,
11.9,
33.7,
516.3, 526.9
Jacksonville, FL . . (
pop. 810,064) . . 59w / 30b / 8h
836.0,
12.2,
26.9,
291.2, 505.6
Tucson, AZ . . (
pop. 547,981) . . 70w / 5b / 42h
649.7,
6.4,
37.2,
227.4, 378.7
Fort Worth, TX . . (
pop. 723,456) . . 61w / 19b / 34h
585.0,
6.1,
51.1,
200.3, 327.5
(
I'm guessing that people can choose several 'races', since sometimes they add up to more than 100%; the ones that don't, there are other choices.)
KBCraig said:
The violence is almost all on the southern side of that border. Very little of it is on the American side.
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MKEgal chose the worst rate in Texas, and it's still low compared to Milwaukee.
Haul out the dirtiest laundry yourself, so the other side doesn't have the pleasure.
And yes, every time I get into discussions like this one it amazes & scares me how violent Milwaukee (MKE) is. And people wonder why I carry. This is the most violent city in the state, by about twice the rate of the next-worst city.
El Paso, on that "violent SW border", has a murder+manslaughter rate of just 1.9 per 100,000. Baltimore's rate is almost 20 times that of El Paso.
It occurs to me that the rate in El Paso might be even lower if they counted everyone in the city.
So even with the border problem & the gun problem (handed out like candy at the bank, right?), and probably undercounting the illegals, EP's rate is ridiculously lower than Baltimore.