Study on Murders in USA

RicInOR · Apr 27, 2017

Murders in US very concentrated: 54% of US counties in 2014 had zero murders, 2% of counties have 51% of the murders. But that's not the only mystery: "When you look at individual counties with a high number of murders, you find large areas with few murders. Take Los Angeles County, with 526 murders in 2014, the most of any county in the US. The county has virtually no murders in the northwestern part of the county. There was only one murder each in Beverly Hills, Hawthorne, and Van Nuys. Clearly, different parts of the county face very different risks of murder."

"HUH. I WONDER WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM AND THE COUNTIES THAT HAD A LOT OF MURDERS? "-- Glenn Reynolds

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That some counties are really big?
San Bernardino County CA - is 16 times the area of Rhode Island

Gaust · Apr 27, 2017

They also said counties with high gun ownership have little to no murders. Hmmm

Jim Colvill · Apr 27, 2017

The take away is most of the murders happen in high concentration/low income urban areas fueled by gangs and black market drugs. Focus on root cause mitigation and the rest will take care of itself. This is something Mad Moms and gun grabbing authoritarians fail to understand.