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Originally Posted by lio45
It would be interesting to have the "murders" data separated in two distinct categories: the murder rate for innocent people, and the murder figures for people who played a role in their own demise.
Most normal people only care about the former. Chicago's on-paper murder rate is only relevant to me as my real odds of getting shot to death while walking down State Street taking pics of early skyscrapers.
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The murder rate is often a good proxy for other crimes. While the chance of you getting randomly murdered is very very low, you getting robbed or otherwise assaulted goes up significantly once you enter a high murder rate area.
Murder rate is a good approx. indicator because statistics get funky for other lesser crimes, as you are comparing different criteria for different departments and states and different attitudes when it comes to reporting.