(10-05-2023, 03:36 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-05-2023, 12:38 PM)mikesez Wrote: Can you help me understand why New York City (run mostly by Democrats) has lower crime rates than Jacksonville (run mostly by Republicans)?

Cops per capita is one reason. NYC has 42 per 10k while Jax has 20 per 10k. Population density matters to police work as well. New York City has 6 times as many people crushed into 1/4 the square miles, which makes those 42 cops per 10k people have way less ground to cover to provide police presence. One thing to note in the geography as well is that NYC crime is relatively evenly spread across the city while in Jax we have about 8 zip codes that look like nova stars on a plot map.  In those zip codes you find all the harbingers of violent crime, ie a high bastardy rate, single motherhood, poverty, unemployment, economic anxiety, high risk health populations, drug and alcohol abuse, a homogenous population (guess which!), and a small police presence. These are a few reasons, but it's also interesting to note that Jacksonville and NYC aren't that different among the US 20 most populous cities. The real difference in crime rates between D's and R's is found in the next 80 most populous; it seems that big cities' large populations mitigate the differences while smaller ones don't.