News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed to Death in SF. Parent comment

Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by verteu on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:24PM (#35458433)
> SF had 40 murders per 100,000 people [last year]

No it didn't. It had 56 murders [1] and a population of 808,437, so 6.9 murders per 100k [2], vs London's rate of 1.42 murders per 100k.

[1] https://sfist.com/2023/01/03/sf-sees-exact-same-number-of-ho...

[2] https://sfstandard.com/research-data/san-francisco-bay-area-...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by syzarian on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:27PM (#35459206)
According to the FBI webpage you linked to it was 40 murders and non negligent manslaughters per 100,000 people in SF. I don’t know the nuances of the definitions involved so maybe the non negligent manslaughter portion is what causes the disparity in the stats cited.

Still, the low murder rate, by American standards, in SF is almost 5 times higher than London’s.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by verteu on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:51PM (#35459540)
No it wasn't -- you're misreading "number of murders" as "murder rate per 100,000 people."
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by syzarian on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @04:06PM (#35459712)
I did misread it! I had to reread it twice because I would have sworn on a stack of Bibles that the column label said “per 100,000”.
[ Parent | on HN ]