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Those were pretty small towns. Would be curious what the statistic of murders per 100,000 residents was in comparison to today. Also a lot of them happened outside of town. Doesn't appear to be a very rigorous scientific analysis.
Those were pretty small towns. Would be curious what the statistic of murders per 100,000 residents was in comparison to today. Also a lot of them happened outside of town. Doesn't appear to be a very rigorous scientific analysis.
The towns had hundreds or thousands of residents, but remember the MAXIMUM was 6 in any one year, including 3 at the OK Corral.
Six in a town of 1,000 would be really high by today's standards considering DC has fewer than 1 per thousand per year. Not many of those towns had 6,000 residents. Math matters.
Six in a town of 1,000 would be really high by today's standards considering DC has fewer than 1 per thousand per year. Not many of those towns had 6,000 residents. Math matters.
Right, but you can't look at 6. You have to look at the mean per 100,000 across all western towns. Also, violent crime is generally reduced because people now have the ability to freely defend themselves against rape, burglary, assault, etc, so you can't just look at the murder rate. In DC you have a 1-2% chance of being the victim of a violent crime.
Right, but you can't look at 6. You have to look at the mean per 100,000 across all western towns. One year of 6 murders is what we in statistics call an "outlier" instance.
Okay so what is that number? Haven't been able to find much on historial crime rates but it was probably about the same or higher than today. How do you know the max of six is even correct? I could probably peruse through all the Durango, CO from then and see how many there were there in a year. It had a population of 3,300 in 1900. Another question would be what one considers the period of the "Old West". I usually think of it as post civil war - pre-automobile.
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