How is the crime in Oklahoma City?

[razzy]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

Your little outing in the middle of the night in downtown Chicago indicates at the very least a slight lack of cognitive abilities on your part. Since you wish to talk about size, we'll do a little comparison of murders per 100,000 people in each city; that should quench your thirst for "the facts.."

Murders per 100,000

Chicago - 16.4
Dallas - 15.0
OkC - 10.3

So much for your little experiment in trying to tell us how much more crime ridden OkC is than Chicago. These are per 100,000 people and not for the cities as a whole wise guy.

I dont have a dog in this hunt, but happened to be reading this thread.

One thing you might want to consider is that Chicago's borders have been stagnant for many (likely 50 or more) years, and therefore, does not have the newer suburban and largely crime-free family areas that OKC has. It is generally the older, inner city areas that have the most crime which is what most of Chicago consists of. The comparison of Chicago vs OKC crime rates would only be valid if we compared the older part of OKC to the entirety of the city of Chicago. I'm guessing that the crime rates would come out pretty even if we did such a comparison.

Dallas is another story, as it does include some newer areas within the city proper, unlike Chicago.

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