While Dayton, a city I do quite a bit of work in, does have more homicides in 09 and 10 than four Texas border cities combined, I wonder how it would look if we tried to compare apples with apples and not Volkeswagons?
I think you'd need to compare homicides per 1000 people to get a grip on which is the more dangerous area to live in.
EDIT: I dug up the report for 2009 from the FBI Crime Reporting Statistics. Data for 2010 isn't available as of yet...
Homicides per 100,000 people:
Dayton, OH - 25
El Paso, TX - 2
Laredo, TX - 7
Brownsville, TX - 2
McAllen, TX - 3
Texas cities combined = 14
I then expanded my research to look at each State's homicide rate on a per capita basis:
Ohio - .174 Homicides per 1 Million people
Texas - .437 Homicides per 1 Million people
(Oh, snap!)
I'm guessing the guy from Texas won't bring up, but the guy from Ohio just might.
Sources:
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/crimestats
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_sta_pri_num_of_hom_percap-prisons-number-homicides-per-capita
EDIT: I dug up the report for 2009 from the FBI Crime Reporting Statistics. Data for 2010 isn't available as of yet...
Homicides per 100,000 people:
Dayton, OH - 25
El Paso, TX - 2
Laredo, TX - 7
Brownsville, TX - 2
McAllen, TX - 3
Texas cities combined = 14
I then expanded my research to look at each State's homicide rate on a per capita basis:
Ohio - .174 Homicides per 1 Million people
Texas - .437 Homicides per 1 Million people
(Oh, snap!)
I'm guessing the guy from Texas won't bring up, but the guy from Ohio just might.
Sources:
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/crimestats
http://www.statemaster.com/graph/cri_sta_pri_num_of_hom_percap-prisons-number-homicides-per-capita
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