On May 22, 2008, Rod Beck sent me the following: > I hate to break the news to the New York bashers, but New York is one > of the safest American cities. This is not a controversial statement. > > New York has a lower incidence of crime than Miami, Detroit, Seattle, > Los Vegas, Houston, Atlanta, DC, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. > > http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/chapter09_files/sheet002.htm > > I refuse to go to NANOG events in Florida - now there is a dangerous > place as well as a foreign country ...
Interesting data, but potentially skewed due to population differences.
New York City's metropolitan area population is 18,818,536, whereas
Miami is only 5,919,036.
Miami: 7116.2 per 100,000 = 0.071162 crimes per person
0.071162 * 5919036 = 421,210.44 crimes
NYC: 2771.0 per 100,000 = 0.02771 crimes per person
0.02771 * 18818536 = 521,461.63 crimes
So it's not really that there is less crime, there's just less chance of
a particular person being the perpetrator or victim.
Also, my population numbers are based on 2006 data provided by
Wikipedia, and therefore are not to be trusted.
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Chip Marshall
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