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>>From Jerome Miller's _Search & Destroy_:
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>"In 1851, for example, when San Francisco had only 30,000 citizens (few
>of them black), there were 100 murders. By comparison, there were 75
>murders in San Francisco in 1984 when the city's population was
>716,000."
Hmmm. 100 murders for 30000 citizens... 1 murder for every 300 citizens per year... if you live in San Francisco for 30 years, you have a 10% chance of being murdered.
Seems rather high.
San Francisco in 1851 doesn't sound like a place where I would like to live.
I'm sorry, your point was?...
Brad DeLong