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This is a good example of how you can say anything with statistics.
Chicago's population is 2.7 million and St. Louis's is 300,000. There are parts of Chicago with the same homicide rate as what you might expect in Switzerland and there are parts with a very high rate. https://twitter.com/AldMattMartin/status/1296835086114070528
Chicago's population is 2.7 million and St. Louis's is 300,000. There are parts of Chicago with the same homicide rate as what you might expect in Switzerland and there are parts with a very high rate. https://twitter.com/AldMattMartin/status/1296835086114070528
"Two Chicago neighborhoods, Burnside and Fuller Park, counted a rate of more than 100 killings per 100,000 people"
Go back and look at Alderman Martin's graph and compare that to the city aggregates, it's higher than every single one. https://www.thetrace.org/2018/04/highest-murder-rates-us-cities-list/
Go back and look at Alderman Martin's graph and compare that to the city aggregates, it's higher than every single one. https://www.thetrace.org/2018/04/highest-murder-rates-us-cities-list/
The Trace article in the second tweet is really good on this with this key fact: "Just like income, education and other metrics of social advantage, violent gun crime varies even more within American cities than between them,” Hertz wrote."
This is something that is the case in most cities, St. Louis too https://metrostl.com/2020/02/12/in-homicides-there-are-two-cities-of-st-louis/
