city comparisons never really work
even if you are comparing per capita
tha highest per capita victims of homicide in Los Angeles are blacks (blacks make up less than 10% of tha population)
tha highest number of homicide victims in Los Angeles are hispanics (they make up more than 50% of tha population)
Chicago has more blacks than Los Angeles per capita, so bringing up tha large population of Los Angeles and comparing it to Chicago is not a good way of comparing crime
you should compare the black Los Angeles population to Chicago's if you want a more accurate way to gage tha homicide rate for that demographic...
comparing a small city like Stockton to a large city like Chicago is tha same thing, Stockton is a very small city with mostly poor run down areas, Chicago is a large city with nice areas, you can't compare tha 2 on a mass scale
a BETTER comparison would be Stockton to tha Chicago neighborhood of Englewood etc...
AGAIN, these comparisons are like apples to oranges, who decides what is a city? tha city council or whoever draws up the borders of a city, they can box out parts of certain neighborhoods and include others, its all just by chance.....
every inner city has homicide, its an unfortunate part of american black ghetto culture.... a cities homicide rates are almost tha highest in "tha hood"
