The majority of murders in the U.S. occur in only a small percentage of counties across the country.
The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) said in a new report that there is a “geographical concentration” of murders, with 68 percent of killings occurring in just 5 percent of the nation’s counties. The homicides also tend to be concentrated to relatively small pockets of those counties, the report said.
“It is stunning how concentrated murders are in the U.S.,” John Lott, president of the CPRC said to Fox News. “And we show that even within these counties, with all these high rates, murders are very concentrated.”
“These high [rate] counties have very large areas where there are no murders.”
In 2014, the U.S. murder rate was 4.4 per 100,000 people, according to the data of the report. If the deadliest 5 percent of the counties were removed, the U.S. murder rate would be 2.56 per 100,000 people, the report showed.
More than half of last year’s murders occurred in only 2 percent of the nation’s counties.
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4 comments:
I suspect most Hillary voters are concentrated in that same 5% of counties.
Notice that a lot of the counties with the highest murder rates also have the highest concentrations of illegal aliens.
3:28 - as it happens, you're right. Each has some of the highest concentration of Democrats in the nation. These are the voters who are most likely to be victimized, but, ironically, are not much on law and order.
The definition of insanity are those areas you know keep voting for Democrats to get a different result.
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