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IncidentalIncidence t1_is74s4b wrote

Reply to comment by marioquartz in Police Killings per Capita v Homicide Rate per Capita for Select OECD Countries [OC] by dr5c

I highly doubt that, since crime in the US is highly concentrated into very specific geographical areas. Not to go full Fox News, but there's that stat they love to pull out that "removing the top 5% of most dangerous US counties would drop the US murder rate to 2.5/100k".

There are a lot of counties in the US that have homicide rates of 0/100k.

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PedestrianDM t1_is79h17 wrote

>since crime in the US is highly concentrated into very specific geographical areas.

No, that is a false claim. High Crime rate per capita is not limited to only 5% of counties.

Here is a map of homicide rate by US county made by a fellow redditor.

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IncidentalIncidence t1_is7bnvs wrote

>High Crime rate per capita is not limited to only 5% of counties.

I didn't actually say that it was.

And without a data source and year, that map is absolutely useless. It has my county wrong (2.1, but shaded as 4+)

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PedestrianDM t1_isa2woy wrote

the OP did not provide his data source, but it was posted in 2019. The trend is at least on-par with any other map of similar crime statistics.

Point being: crime is fairly diffuse throughout the US, and there are no counties that experience "0/100k" homicide rates.

edit: here is the post in question. feel free to reach out to them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/er763t/homicide_rate_by_county/

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IncidentalIncidence t1_isa63b6 wrote

lol. you fucking people will believe anything as long as as it confirms what you think you know.

Fine, you have no data. Let's look at the actual numbers.

If you download the 2021 County Health Data from UW Madison (which is aggregated from the National Center for Health Statistics' Mortality Files), you can count how many counties have a homicide rate of 0.

Here's the download page: https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/explore-health-rankings/rankings-data-documentation

in "2021 County Health Rankings Data - v1.xlsx" we can go to the table "Additional Measure Data", and look at collumn FY. There we can see how many counties were had homicide rates that were 0 or statistically insignificant (which we know from the documentation means less than 10 homicides in total over the 7-year time period that was used to for the average). if we put in a formula =COUNT(FY1:FY3195), it spits out our answer: 1351 of the 3195 counties in the survey had a homicide rate that was either 0 or too low to be statistically representative.

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