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Latest comment: 6 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion
The opening cites an unrealistic figure of 60 million violent crimes per year in California for a population of 40 million. In the source cited for this figure, I can only find a more reasonable figure of 160 thousand for 2015. I propose amending these figures.
Lunakillah (talk) 06:10, 21 October 2018 (UTC)Reply
A science friend and I just realized that the writer of these figures misinterpreted the number as the rate in the pdf cited. The number for total violent crimes is 160 thousand, which while multiplied by 400 (an approximate number of 100 thousands of people in California), gives the unreasonable figure of 60 million. The actual total number is 160 thousand, which when multiplied by the rate on the subsequent page (this is all pages 7 and 8 of the pdf).
