A closer look at Crime vs Population is the United States.

1. Kadarius D. Lemons

2. Concerned US citizens
Parents
Citizens in the target areas
Local and state governments

3. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR) Program, violent crime is
composed of four offenses: murder and
manslaughter, rape, robbery, and
aggravated assault. Violent crimes are
defined in the UCR Program as those
offenses which involve force or threat of
force.

4. For this project, I tried to find a correlation
between violent crimes and the population
of cities in the United States. Since I
cannot possibly gather information for
every single city, I took a decent sample
size.

5. New York City, NY
Atlanta, GA
Los Angeles, CA
Houston, TX
Memphis, TN
Washington DC
Lincoln, NE
St. Louis, MO
New Orleans, LA
Detroit, MI

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7. In the previous graph, New York City
comes in with the highest population with a
bit above 8 million. Los Angeles is next
with a little under 4 million. The populations
decreases as the graph moves right, with
Lincoln, Nebraska bringing up the rear with
about 260,000.

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Violent Crimes per 100,000 Homes
Violent Crimes per 100,000
Homes

9. In the previous graph, Detroit hits the peak
point with well over 2,000 violent crimes
per 100,000 homes. Los Angeles, Atlanta,
and Lincoln are all near the bottom with
less than 500 violent crimes per 100,000
homes.
It can be noted that Detroit, Memphis, DC,
and Atlanta show the correlation I was
looking for. As the population decreases,
the violent crime rate decreases as well.

10. By comparing the two graphs, we can
obviously see that there is no full, direct
correlation between the population of a city
and the violent crime rate.

11. There is a possibility that the sample size
is not big enough, or that the right cities
were not selected.
Others correlations to violent crime may
be:
• Demographic
• Geographic Location
• Climate
• Surrounding cities/areas

12. https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-
in-the-u.s/2012
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-
in-the-u.s/2010/crime-in-the-u.s.-
2010/violent-crime