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Re:Washington, DC police put under federal control, National... by sugarpimpdorsey on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:05PM (#44868137)
Because it permits such nonsensical statements such as "France has more murders per year than London" (therefore London is safer by comparison QED).

When you can draw arbitrary borders, you can make the numbers mean whatever you want.

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Re:Washington, DC police put under federal control, National... by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:12PM (#44868238)
Crime counts are normalized to crime rates with respect to population, not land area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

And you'll see that Washington D.C. doesn't make the top ten for rates of any of the major violent crimes (murder, rape, etc.) nor for the "Total" violent crime.

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