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Originally Posted by stevej37

WTF?!?
"Hawaii, Texas?" I can only assume someone farked up and might have meant "Houston, Texas" but it could have been anything.


I was wondering how they were ranking them (violent crimes or violent crimes / population or something else), then I noticed that the "##,### violent events" wasn't necessarily increasing, so I'm guessing it must be violent crimes per 100,000 or something like that.

It was weird/interesting that the top 2 are St Louis and Memphis, and Detroit didn't make the list at all. When I see lists like this, I wonder "how was the data compiled in such a way as to create the list that it did?" Because the person compiling the data can change details in ways to make the list very different. It's kind of like how every truck commercial says "most powerful" or "most fuel efficient". "Most powerful" (HP or torque) or maybe "most powerful in it's class" or "most powerful standard" (as opposed to optional engines) etc....