A Study Of How To Obtain Our Safety And Happiness
In order to advance the constitutional requirement to establish justice I did a small investigation using several sources such as Areaconnect.com on crime and population statistics, a report from the Bay Area Center of Voting Research on the most liberal and conservative cities, and DCJobsource.com on the richest and poorest cities.
What I found is that the 4 conservative cities that were also on the DCJobsource report all were in the 20 cities that had the lowest rate of violent crime while of the thirteen liberal cities 11 were in the 20 cities with the highest crime rate. The conservative cities are Anchorage, AK; Okalahoma City, OK; Colorado Springs; CO, and Arlington, TX while the liberal cities are Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA; Newark, NJ; Boston, MA; Minneapolis, MN, Oakland, CA; Cleveland, OH; Washington, DC; Buffalo, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Detroit, MI; Baltimore, MD; and St Louis, MO. The conservative cities have a mean average of 642.8 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants with a standard deviation of 193.4. The liberal cities on the other hand have a mean average of 1320.0 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants with a standard deviation of 394.0 which indicates that violent crime is approximately twice as common in liberal cities. Though individual city rankings do not necessary match up to the hypothesis that more conservative cities have lower crime rates the mean average rankings do with liberal cities with a negative deviation in the amount of crime being on average two rankings more conservative than those with a positive deviation. This is even more pronounced in the conservative cities with a six ranking difference.
Wealth is another indicator of crime level with the twenty poorest cities having a mean average violent crime rate of 1187.4 per 100,000 inhabitants with a standard deviation of 407.4. The 20 wealthiest cities on the other hand have a mean average violent crime rate of 714.2 per 100,000 inhabitants with a standard deviation of 341.1. In examining the rank between wealth and politics I found that of the cities indicated as more conservative only Oklahoma City, Ok was in the 20 poorest cities and its rank was 18 while seven of the most liberal cities were in the same group and 6 of them in the top 7 poorest cities. Even though twice as many of the top most liberal cities number in the twenty richest cities the mean average wage is approximately $1800 more in the conservative cities or about 5% greater. Wealth may account for some of the discrepancy between liberal and conservative political models but is obviously not the only factor.
The mean average number of married-couple households of total households in the 39 cities I have statistics for is 39.92 percent with liberals dominating the bottom part of the scale with a range from 26.16 to 34.04 percent while conservatives were in the upper range from 45.81 to 51.63 percent. According to the statistics available for the cities in the top 20 richest and poorest you can calculate the mean violent crime rate of a city based on its marriage rate. The calculation assumes a base of 27.5% of the inhabitants living in house holds and a mean average violent crime rate of 1482.0 per 100000 inhabitants and is phrased like this for every 5% increase in marriage rate the crime rate drops by 181.1 with a standard deviation of 162.3. An interesting discovery but I have my doubt it would hold true outside the study I have as violent crime would be virtually eliminated when the number of married household hit 80%. Nerveless it does show there is a strong correlation between marriage and the level of violent criminal behavior and the need to strengthen the institute of marriage.
I am of the be tough on criminal mindset but my grandmother said a once of prevention is worth a pound of cure and I agree with her. Looking at these statistics I advocate spending money to strengthen the institute of sound marriages and aiding the poor in preference to keeping villains in jail. Still something has to be done to protect the rights of the average citizen from those lawbreakers that have already been created by society.
What I found is that the 4 conservative cities that were also on the DCJobsource report all were in the 20 cities that had the lowest rate of violent crime while of the thirteen liberal cities 11 were in the 20 cities with the highest crime rate. The conservative cities are Anchorage, AK; Okalahoma City, OK; Colorado Springs; CO, and Arlington, TX while the liberal cities are Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA; Newark, NJ; Boston, MA; Minneapolis, MN, Oakland, CA; Cleveland, OH; Washington, DC; Buffalo, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Detroit, MI; Baltimore, MD; and St Louis, MO. The conservative cities have a mean average of 642.8 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants with a standard deviation of 193.4. The liberal cities on the other hand have a mean average of 1320.0 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants with a standard deviation of 394.0 which indicates that violent crime is approximately twice as common in liberal cities. Though individual city rankings do not necessary match up to the hypothesis that more conservative cities have lower crime rates the mean average rankings do with liberal cities with a negative deviation in the amount of crime being on average two rankings more conservative than those with a positive deviation. This is even more pronounced in the conservative cities with a six ranking difference.
Wealth is another indicator of crime level with the twenty poorest cities having a mean average violent crime rate of 1187.4 per 100,000 inhabitants with a standard deviation of 407.4. The 20 wealthiest cities on the other hand have a mean average violent crime rate of 714.2 per 100,000 inhabitants with a standard deviation of 341.1. In examining the rank between wealth and politics I found that of the cities indicated as more conservative only Oklahoma City, Ok was in the 20 poorest cities and its rank was 18 while seven of the most liberal cities were in the same group and 6 of them in the top 7 poorest cities. Even though twice as many of the top most liberal cities number in the twenty richest cities the mean average wage is approximately $1800 more in the conservative cities or about 5% greater. Wealth may account for some of the discrepancy between liberal and conservative political models but is obviously not the only factor.
The mean average number of married-couple households of total households in the 39 cities I have statistics for is 39.92 percent with liberals dominating the bottom part of the scale with a range from 26.16 to 34.04 percent while conservatives were in the upper range from 45.81 to 51.63 percent. According to the statistics available for the cities in the top 20 richest and poorest you can calculate the mean violent crime rate of a city based on its marriage rate. The calculation assumes a base of 27.5% of the inhabitants living in house holds and a mean average violent crime rate of 1482.0 per 100000 inhabitants and is phrased like this for every 5% increase in marriage rate the crime rate drops by 181.1 with a standard deviation of 162.3. An interesting discovery but I have my doubt it would hold true outside the study I have as violent crime would be virtually eliminated when the number of married household hit 80%. Nerveless it does show there is a strong correlation between marriage and the level of violent criminal behavior and the need to strengthen the institute of marriage.
I am of the be tough on criminal mindset but my grandmother said a once of prevention is worth a pound of cure and I agree with her. Looking at these statistics I advocate spending money to strengthen the institute of sound marriages and aiding the poor in preference to keeping villains in jail. Still something has to be done to protect the rights of the average citizen from those lawbreakers that have already been created by society.
posted by Kerwin | 11:35 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home