Concentrate Where the Murders Are Concentrated by Gary Galles SOURCE: Mises.org

 

First, he focused on county-level data rather than national data. Some of the dramatic results he found:

• The worst five counties (Cook, Los Angeles, Harris, Philadelphia, and New York) accounted for about 15 percent of homicides.
• The worst 1 percent of counties (31), with 21 percent of the US population, accounted for 42 percent of the homicides.
• The worst 2 percent of counties (62), with 31 percent of the population, accounted for 56 percent of the homicides.
• The worst 5 percent of counties (155), with 47 percent of the population, accounted for 73 percent of the homicides.
• In contrast, over half of US counties (52 percent) had zero homicides in 2020, and roughly one-sixth of the counties (16 percent) had only one.