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Interactive county by county crime map

poweRob

poweRob

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This site has an interactive map that you can hover over a county and see crime levels per 100,000. The darker the red the worse the rate of crime. All those white counties.... don't get to happy about them, if they have ZERO as the result, they just aren't reporting their numbers. New Mexico, Tennessee, Alabama, Nevada and Cali look pretty red but South Carolina... there's so much blood red it itself looks like a crime scene.

Crime map by county
 
Some of those counties in SC have over a 1000!
 
poweRob said:
Crime map by county
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There's an inconsistency in the statistics used to create the map. You can see it in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. Notice how VA or KY is nearly white throughout, but SC and TN are completely red.

The reason would be that the states must define what constitutes a "crime" differently.

For example SC/TN may consider simple misdemeanors a "crime" thus making them turn dark red in the map, where every county is reporting hundreds of crimes each. Whereas VA/KY may only consider first/second degree felonies a "crime" making them look like crime-free paradises.
 
brothern said:
There's an inconsistency in the statistics used to create the map. You can see it in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee. Notice how VA or KY is nearly white throughout, but SC and TN are completely red.

The reason would be that the states must define what constitutes a "crime" differently.

For example SC/TN may consider simple misdemeanors a "crime" thus making them turn dark red in the map, where every county is reporting hundreds of crimes each. Whereas VA/KY may only consider first/second degree felonies a "crime" making them look like crime-free paradises.
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I wrote in the OP that if you hover over a white county and it says zero it's because they haven't reported any stats.
 
poweRob said:
I wrote in the OP that if you hover over a white county and it says zero it's because they haven't reported any stats.
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I know. That's why I picked KY and VA as examples. If you hover over their white counties, you can see that the values reported for them are not equal to zero. They are instead the color nearest white because the crime numbers are 0-100.
 
brothern said:
I know. That's why I picked KY and VA as examples. If you hover over their white counties, you can see that the values reported for them are not equal to zero. They are instead the color nearest white because the crime numbers are 0-100.
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Could be incomplete reporting skewing the per capita effect.
 
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