Here's the web page that Charlie has nominated for his
formulations.
These figures make defy anybodies common sense. I've
attempted to copy the figures, but if they don't copy,
here's the url for the website page in question:
You might have missed the part about Crimes per 100,000 population.
New York has 30 times the total population. Lets take your Aggrevated
assault as an example. St Paul had 263,937 times 527.4 divided by
100,000 or 1,392 Aggrevated Assaults in 2001 New York had 7,746,511
times 527.7