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It seems that issues of crime and safety pop up rather often on this forum. Toward that end, here is a ranking of every US state, along with a few other Anglophone countries, by 2007 murder rate. It's interesting to look at this data. Murder rates diverge wildly across the country.
How to interpret these numbers: Murder rates are given in terms of per 100,000 per year. This means that, for every 100,000 people, a particular number were murdered in 2007. So, if a city of 200,000 had 20 murders in 2007, its rate for 2007 is 10 per 100,000. The rate is important because it controls for population differences. It allows easy comparisons across borders. The national average of the United States in 2007 was 5.6.
These are not the true "murder-rate". The are the rate of deaths that are officially recognized as homicides. There is no way to know \how many homicides are listed as accidental, suicide, or simply missing persons. The number of homicides that are not recognized could be maybe more, maybe twice as many, maybe ten times as many, nlbody can ever know.
One nteresting factoid is that about 40% of all known homicides are never solved. This figure can be ascertained by the Justice Department's statistic on "relationship of victim to perpetrator", which in 40% of cases is categorized as "unknown". The only way that can be unknown is if the identity of the perp is unknown.
Also, different tates might have different definkitions of homicide. For example, in the case of a vehicular "negligent homicide", some states prosecutors might be more willing than others to plea-bargain it to a lesser crime, and thus remove it from the statistical count of murders.
I'm a realist, sorry if you confuse that with racist.
Remember, a liberal will only recognize Warm and Fuzzy facts.
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